When Shelby Van Pelt isn’t writing, she’s herding cats and wrangling children. Her debut novel, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a "Read with Jenna" Today Show Book Club pick. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize from The Writer’s Center. REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES has sold over two million copies. It has spent, in aggregate, over a year on the NYT Hardcover Bestseller list.

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she’s now missing the mountains in the Chicago area with her family.

Books by Shelby Van Pelt

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt - Fiction

For fans of A MAN CALLED OVE comes a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.