The God of the Woods

Name: The God of the Woods
ISBN: 9780593418505

Anthony Award · 2025 · WinnerEdgar Award · 2025 · ShortlistAnthony Award · 2024 · ShortlistGoodreads Choice · 2024 · WinnerAnthony Award · 2021 · Shortlist

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Riverhead BooksJuly 2, 2024Mystery & Crime Historical FictionISBN 9780593418505

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2025	Winner	“Liz Moore's bestselling literary thriller won the Anthony for its masterful dual timeline, its evocation of Adirondacks privilege and class, and its devastating emotional core.”
Edgar Award (Best Novel)	2025	Shortlist
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2024	Shortlist
Goodreads Choice Awards for Mystery & Thriller	2024	Winner	“The God of the Woods by Liz Moore”
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

In 1975, a thirteen-year-old girl goes missing from an Adirondack summer camp—the same camp where her brother vanished decades earlier. A sweeping multigenerational mystery spanning fifty years of family secrets, wilderness, and the corruption that hides in plain sight. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller 2024.

About the Author

Liz MooreUS

Liz Moore is an American literary fiction and crime fiction author known for her atmospheric, character-driven novels. She is a professor of creative writing and her work has been praised for its literary precision alongside the propulsive qualities of genre fiction. Moore's novels include Heft, The Unseen World, Long Bright River, and The God of the Woods. Read more →