Lily Braun-Arnold

Photo Credits: Geneve Rege

About Me:

Lily is a recent graduate from Smith College and the NYT bestselling author of THE LAST BOOKSTORE ON EARTH. When she isn’t writing, she can be found rewatching her favorite TV shows or daydreaming about living in outer space. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Her second novel, WHAT HAPPENED IN THE WOODS, is being published in Spring 2028.

Things I love:

    • The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

    • The Diviners by Libba Bray

    • The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

    • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    • We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

    • Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

    • The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson

    • Amulet by Kazu Kibushi

    • In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

    • Tom Nancy by Mac Barnett, Illustrated by X. Fang

    • Paddington 2

    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    • Coraline

    • The Graduate

    • Now You See Me 2

    • Strangers on a Train

    • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    • Orphan Black

    • The 100

    • Locke and Key

    • Severance

    • Midnight Mass

    • Derry Girls

    • The Leftovers

    • Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

    • The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski

    • Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

    • Remember That I Love You by Kimya Dawson

    • The Golden Age by Woodkid

    • The Bends by Radiohead

    • Burst Apart by The Antlers

    • Anything by Brandon Jacobs Jenkins

    • Dead Outlaw (musical)

    • Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi

    • Titanic (musical)

    • A Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neil

    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (musical)

    • Bug by Tracy Letts

    • Jesus Christ Superstar (musical)

    • John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Bellflower

    • Sweeney Todd (musical)