A Little Life
Ranked #35 in 100 Most Popular BookTok and Bookstagram Books
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About A Little Life
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Reader guide at a glance
Use these edition facts and spoiler-light notes to decide whether this book fits your mood, time, and preferred reading experience.
- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 21.0 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Long read
- Best for
- Readers seeking fated mates, friends to lovers, haunting, contemporary romance
Why readers are finding A Little Life
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, published in 2016, is a 833-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Fated Mates, Friends to Lovers, Haunting, Contemporary Romance.
This edition also appears at number 35 in our researched social reading top 100, reflecting current discussion across BookTok alongside longer-running reader interest. The ranking uses one verified English-language print ISBN per work so retailer links, cover metadata, and search results point to a real edition rather than a workbook, translation, or duplicate collector version.
- Print ISBN
- 978-0-804-17270-7
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 833
