Matthew Quick

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Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels, including We Are the Light, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month selection. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. Matthew lives with his wife, the novelist Alicia Bessette, in B ...more

DAD, LOVE, ME is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“What begins as an excavation of childhood trauma gradually becomes something rarer and more enlightening: an account of what happens when forgiveness arrives only after the parent who most needs it begins losing the ability to understand it....it’s difficult to read this book without feeling that some redemption and reconciliation—between parents and children, between scarred memory and forgivene Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.9 · 291,055 ratings · 31,876 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Silver Linings Playbook

3.98 avg rating — 163,925 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

3.87 avg rating — 49,095 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions
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We Are the Light

3.78 avg rating — 21,297 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions
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The Good Luck of Right Now

3.62 avg rating — 18,100 ratings — published 2014 — 57 editions
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Boy21

3.94 avg rating — 11,003 ratings — published 2012 — 39 editions
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Every Exquisite Thing

3.64 avg rating — 8,945 ratings — published 2016 — 34 editions
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Sorta Like a Rock Star

3.89 avg rating — 6,884 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions
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Love May Fail

3.55 avg rating — 6,669 ratings — published 2015 — 45 editions
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The Reason You're Alive

4.03 avg rating — 5,123 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions
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Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir

4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions
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“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

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