Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers | 2012 | Buy |
| American Odysseys | 2013 | Buy |
| Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today’s New York | 2014 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Tiger’s Wife | 2011 | Buy |
| Inland | 2019 | Buy |
| The Morningside | 2024 | Buy |
Tea Obreht is a Serbian-American novelist born in Belgrade in 1985. She and her family left the former Yugoslavia during the wars of the 1990s, eventually settling in the United States. She studied at the University of Southern California and Cornell University, and her fiction often draws on themes of displacement, folklore, and the weight of the past on the present.
Her debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife (2011), tells the story of a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country who pieces together her grandfather’s life through his stories about a mysterious woman and the tiger she befriended. The book won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was a National Book Award finalist, making Obreht one of the most talked-about debut authors of the decade. Her second novel, Inland (2019), moved to a very different setting: 1890s Arizona Territory, where the stories of a frontier woman and a ghostly outlaw slowly converge.
Her third novel, The Morningside (2024), is set in a near-future city reshaped by climate change and follows an immigrant girl living in a crumbling luxury high-rise. Obreht has also contributed to several anthologies, including Better Than Fiction and Tales of Two Cities. She writes slowly and carefully, publishing only a few books over more than a decade, but each one has found a dedicated readership.