Playground

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
One of the Washington Post and AARP's Ten Best Books of the Year
A Time Must-Read Book of the Year
One of NPR's "Books We Love" of the Year
An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
"Prepare to be awed.... [A]stonishing." -Ron Charles, Washington Post
The magisterial novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.