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’s Ten Best Books of 2024 - A Time Must-Read Book of 2024 - An Economist and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 - Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue - Selected as ＂Fiction to Read this Fall＂ by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, and Parade - Named a Top Read of the Season by the AARP

A magisterial new 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.