Lulu Miller

A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year The city is a busy place and home to many kinds of trucks in this “gloriously bright, inventive world on wheels” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) tale about all the trucks on the road—big, small, real and imagined!Trucky Roads sees all kinds of trucks, and when he imagines the kinds of trucks...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado 'Genre-defying . . . fast-moving, deftly balanced, full of surprises' Guardian's Books of the Day 'Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten' New York Times Book Review 'A magical hybrid of science, portraiture and memoir' Susan Orlean...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado'Fast-moving, deftly balanced, full of surprises' Guardian's Book of the Day'A bold and original blend of memoir and science' Elizabeth BuchananIf fish don't exist, what else do we have wrong?As a child, Lulu...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidance—the 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring over his diaries, Lulu discovers a man obsessed with nature's hidden order, devoted to studying shimmering scales and sailing the world in search of new species of fish. After the 1906 San...

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post NPR Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.​ "At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes...