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Jodi Picoult

Author of My Sister's Keeper

100+ Works 126,301 Members 4,012 Reviews 496 Favorited

About the Author

Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York on May 19, 1966. She received a degree in creative writing from Princeton University in 1987 and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after show more graduation, she landed a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. Her first book, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was published in 1992. Her other works include Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Salem Falls, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care, House Rules, Sing You Home, Lone Wolf, Leaving Time, and Small Great Things. My Sister's Keeper was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz. She received the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She also wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. She writes young adult novels with her daughter Samantha van Leer including Between the Lines and Off the Page. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Jodi Picoult

My Sister's Keeper (2004) 20,856 copies
Nineteen Minutes (2007) 10,786 copies
The Pact (1998) 8,507 copies
Plain Truth (2000) 6,727 copies
The Tenth Circle (2006) 6,583 copies
Vanishing Acts (2005) 5,838 copies
House Rules (2010) — Author — 5,076 copies
Change of Heart (2008) 4,944 copies
Handle with Care (2009) 4,600 copies
Keeping Faith (1999) 4,576 copies
Salem Falls (2001) 4,366 copies
Small Great Things (2016) 3,734 copies
Perfect Match (2002) 3,694 copies
The Storyteller (2013) 3,524 copies
Second Glance (2003) 3,467 copies
Mercy (1995) 3,463 copies
Sing You Home (2011) 3,041 copies
Picture Perfect (1995) 2,968 copies
Harvesting the Heart (1994) 2,723 copies
Lone Wolf (2012) 2,361 copies
Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992) 2,228 copies
A Spark of Light (2018) 1,881 copies
Leaving Time (2014) 1,669 copies
Between the Lines (2012) 1,562 copies
Wish You Were Here (2021) 1,480 copies
Mad Honey (2022) 1,446 copies
The Book of Two Ways (2020) 1,259 copies
Off the Page (2015) 622 copies
Where There's Smoke (2014) 262 copies
Leaving Home: Short Pieces (2011) 97 copies
Shine (short story) (2016) 85 copies
The Color War (2013) 59 copies
Mermaid (2017) 49 copies
Choice (2022) 14 copies
Picoult:Mad Honey (2022) 7 copies
Salem Falls [2018 TV movie] — Original novel — 5 copies
Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 #6 (2007) 4 copies
Broken Things (2022) 4 copies
Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 #9 (2007) 3 copies
Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 #10 (2007) 3 copies
Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 #7 (2007) 3 copies
Mad Honey (2022) 2 copies
Przemiana. Cz. 2 (2017) 2 copies
Kniha dvou cest (2022) 2 copies
Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 #8 (2007) 2 copies
Vlk samot©Ł¿ (2022) 1 copy
Vlk samotář (2013) 1 copy
Kéž bys tu byl (2023) 1 copy
many books 1 copy
Et siste n̜ske (1997) 1 copy
W naszym domu. Cz. 1 (2017) 1 copy
Magányos farkas (2017) 1 copy
Desátý kruh (2007) 1 copy
Pol zycia (2012) 1 copy
W naszym domu. Cz. 2 (2017) 1 copy
Krucha jak lód. Cz. 1 (2017) 1 copy
Krucha jak lód. Cz. 2 (2017) 1 copy
Jak z obrazka (polish) (2011) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Outsiders (1967) — Introduction, some editions — 20,817 copies
Stories: All-New Tales (2010) — Contributor — 1,382 copies
How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation (2018) — Contributor — 163 copies
My Sister's Keeper [2009 film] (2009) — Author — 143 copies
It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons (2005) — Contributor — 77 copies
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life (2016) — Contributor — 60 copies
Jodi Picoult Collection [film] (2012) — Author — 5 copies
The Pact [2002 TV movie] — Author — 1 copy

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Reviews

This was okay. I didn't get as involved in the characters as I usually do with Jodi Picoult's work. I felt like the real story starts where this one ends.
 
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njcur | 39 other reviews | Mar 7, 2024 |
Diana O'Toole, a New Yorker and a Sotheby's art historian, is a type-A personality who ends up stranded on the Galapagos in the early days of the COVID pandemic. This is both a curse and a blessing for her as she gets to be stranded in paradise while her boyfriend is stuck working in the COVID section of a busy hospital in Manhattan. Since we all suffer the PTSD from the early days of the pandemic, having the story set in such an exotic location feels fresh and relaxing. At least for a little while...

This book has one of the most interesting twists I have ever read. However, I'm not sure that I quite liked it. Honestly, I feel I would have been fine without it, but since it is there I gotta say it added a new dimension to the novel. For me, the novel sank quite a bit after the twist and sorta stayed flat until the end.
The main relationship that everything revolves around is quite boring and superficial.

However, this book is well researched and insightful. It is true to the emotions we felt back in March 2020. Although a little bit cliche in the plot and characters, I give it 3.5.
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 75 other reviews | Mar 4, 2024 |
With all the topics this book vaguely touches on (Egyptology, quantum physics, death, motherhood), this should have been a perfect book for me.

The info dump on all things Egypt didn't bother me at all. I took most of my electives at uni in that very field and loved those parts of the novel. But I have to be honest: they were written in such a dry, boring way that would turn away anyone who is not enthusiastic about the topic. There were some nice parts that described how Egyptians dealt with death and dying that really stood out for me. That was probably the highlight of the novel.

The bigger problem is that, for a book that could have been a lot more, it left me completely emotionally cold.
It also very strongly reinforced the cliche that women fall in love with bold, adventurous types who turn out to be the loves of their lives, while they marry calm, boring men who adore them.

For a death doula, the main character is quite uninspired and disappointing. I found her approach to death too clinical for someone in that role. I guess she is realistically imperfect, but not very likeable, with a twisted sense of morality.

I invested a lot of time and patience in this book, hoping that the development at the end will make up for the plane crash plot confusion, boring sections from around the halfway point and the lack of real character development, but from there until the end it was just getting worse.

Three pale stars from me (2.5).
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 46 other reviews | Mar 4, 2024 |
I read maybe 1/3 of this book before I gave up. I don't care for the writing, the characters (the mom is a TOTAL bitch), anything about this book. I will say that I skipped through and read the last several pages to see what happened, to see if the book had the same ending as the movie (it doesn't.) I read this one in paperback, but I have another book by Jodi Picoult (Plain Truth) on my e-reader, and if it's anything like this one, I won't be reading it all the way through, either.
 
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Rob Leigh Letterer
Dave Mccraig Colorist
Alex Sinclair Colorist and Cover Artist
Carol Monda Narrator, Reader
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Jeanne M. Lee Cover designer
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Rich Orlow Narrator
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Yvonne Gilbert Illustrator
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Works
100
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Members
126,301
Popularity
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Rating
3.8
Reviews
4,012
ISBNs
1,642
Languages
26
Favorited
496

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