Growing up in a family of teachers (both her mom and her grandmother were teachers), she discovered a liking for reading and writing, and she crafted her very first story at the tender age of 5, when she wrote The Lobster Which Misunderstood. She grew up in a non-practicing Jewish family. Jodi Picoult was born in 1966, in Nesconset, New York, Long Island, where she remained until the age of 13 when she moved with her family to New Hampshire. Over the Moon, 2011 (play with Jake van Leer).Most of them are standalones, however, there are also a few written within book series.Ĭo-authored with Samantha van Leer (her daughter) So here are the Jodi Picoult books in order for her numerous novels. The book impacted me so much that I went on to search other novels by the author, and thankfully, there were many to choose from. My first introduction to her books was after watching My Sister’s Keeper with Cameron Diaz, following which I eagerly searched for the book that the movie was based on.

Many of her books are classified as chick-lit, however, I think that due to the topics they cover, they are a bit more serious than that. Last Updated on ApJodi Picoult is the bestselling author of over 25 women fiction novels, many on heavy contemporary topics such as war, childhood leukaemia and stem-cell research, domestic violence, murder, gun control, and suicide, to name just a few of the moral dilemmas, taboos, and heavy topics that her books deal with.

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