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Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. His latest novel, The River is Waiting, will be released in May of 2025 through Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years.
Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.

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CT Public: Wally Lamb’s new book, ‘The River Is Waiting,’ explores prison injustice and forgiveness

Wally Lamb’s new book, ‘The River Is Waiting,’ explores prison injustice and forgiveness

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	She’s Come Undone 3.91 avg rating — 358,597 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Know This Much Is True 4.21 avg rating — 322,016 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hour I First Believed 3.83 avg rating — 64,669 ratings — published 2008 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Water 3.84 avg rating — 54,802 ratings — published 2013 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Is Waiting 4.40 avg rating — 46,303 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wishin' and Hopin' 3.61 avg rating — 18,700 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Take You There 3.28 avg rating — 11,060 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution 4.11 avg rating — 7,773 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author), I'll Fly Away contributors 3.99 avg rating — 2,860 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wally Lamb Fiction Collection: The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, We Are Water, and Wishin' and Hopin' 4.48 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

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“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

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“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

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Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

15 votes, 23.4%

We Are Water

by Wally Lamb

9 votes, 14.1%

He Said/She Said

by Erin Kelly

8 votes, 12.5%

The Dressmaker

by Rosalie Ham

6 votes, 9.4%

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

6 votes, 9.4%

My Cousin Rachel

by Daphne du Maurier

6 votes, 9.4%

The Leavers

by Lisa Ko

5 votes, 7.8%

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

by Kelli Estes

4 votes, 6.3%

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

3 votes, 4.7%

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

2 votes, 3.1%

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