Middlesex
American novelist, born 1960. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.
Middlesex is a 2002 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.
In family saga, LGBTQ+
On 3 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- First published
- 2002
- Length
- 544 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 2003
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, LGBTQ+, Migration and identity
Is Middlesex worth reading?
3 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Oprah's Book Club picks.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Oprah's Book Club picks (Oprah's Book Club, 1996-) | Listed | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 2003) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 59 | See the list |
Best edition of Middlesex
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2013), 544 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2013)
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN
- 9780007528646
How critics, prizes and readers rate Middlesex
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 10% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Middlesex
If you liked Middlesex, try To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22 or Wolf Hall.
