
Titles in This Set
A Little Life
The People in the Trees
To Paradise
Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, Anchor
Age Range: Adult
Overview
Three of the most acclaimed novels from Hanya Yanagihara arrive together in this paperback collection: A Little Life, The People in the Trees, and To Paradise. From an intimate portrait of friendship and trauma among four New York classmates to a searing debut about ambition and discovery on a remote Micronesian island, and a sweeping, era-spanning meditation on love and belonging, this set showcases the extraordinary range of a singular literary voice. Ideal for readers building a complete Yanagihara library or discovering her work for the first time, this collection is a rewarding, emotionally resonant reading journey.
About the Books
This collection brings together three novels tracing Hanya Yanagihara's arc as a writer, each sharing her hallmark blend of lush, exacting prose and unflinching emotional honesty. A Little Life, her best-known and most widely read novel, follows four college friends who move to New York in search of success, only to find that the deepest bonds cannot fully heal the wounds one of them carries in silence. It became a National Book Award finalist, a Man Booker Prize finalist, and won the Kirkus Prize, and has since become a touchstone novel about friendship and endurance for readers worldwide. The People in the Trees, her 2013 debut, is a darker, more compact work: a fictional memoir of a disgraced scientist whose discovery of a hidden form of immortality on a remote Micronesian island brings fame and devastating moral consequences, and it set the tone for the ethical complexity found throughout her fiction. To Paradise closes the set with the most ambitious structure of the three, moving across three centuries and imagined Americas to ask what freedom, illness, and love might look like under radically different social orders. Together, the books trace a writer's evolution from a tightly wound literary debut to a sprawling generational epic, returning again and again to her enduring preoccupations of chosen family, the cost of survival, and the fragile, persistent hope for paradise.
Key Benefits
Book-by-Book Guide
A Little Life — Four college friends build careers and a fragile chosen family in New York, anchored by their devotion to the brilliant, haunted Jude.
The People in the Trees — A disgraced scientist recounts his 1950s expedition to a Micronesian island and the immortality-granting discovery that cost him everything.
To Paradise — Three interlinked stories set across three centuries and alternate Americas explore love, illness, and the search for a freer society.
About the Author
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor raised across the United States before settling in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine and spent many years working in magazine publishing. Her debut novel, The People in the Trees, was published in 2013 to critical acclaim, followed by A Little Life in 2015, which became a National Book Award finalist, a Man Booker Prize finalist, and a Kirkus Prize winner. Her most recent novel, To Paradise, was published in 2022. Yanagihara lives in New York City.
Why You'll Love This Collection
A must-have set for literary fiction fans, this collection makes a thoughtful gift for book clubs, birthdays, or the holiday season. Reading all three together reveals Yanagihara's evolving voice, from a taut literary debut to sprawling generational storytelling, offering hours of immersive, emotionally rich reading for any dedicated reader's bookshelf or gift list.
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