Jami Attenberg

Attenberg was born in 1971 in Arlington Heights, Illinois."Jami Attenberg." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2018. Gale In Context: Biography. Accessed 15 January 2022. The daughter of a travelling salesman, she grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois,{{Cite web |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/06/07/in-the-middlesteins-jami-attenberg-shows-you-can-go-home-again |title=Chicago Reader: In The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg shows you can go home again, by Aimee Levitt on June 7, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2016. |date=7 June 2013 |access-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326230757/http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/06/07/in-the-middlesteins-jami-attenberg-shows-you-can-go-home-again |url-status=live }}Gwendolyn Smith, Author's tale, i, London, 22 January 2022, page 50. and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1993.{{Cite web|last=Upholt|first=Boyce|date=2019-12-16|title=All this is hers|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2019/winter/jami-attenberg-2501-em1-art1-nr-al-voices/|access-date=2022-01-15|website=The Hub|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|language=en}}

Attenberg worked at HBO (2000 to 2003) before deciding to devote herself to fiction writing, initially supported by temp jobs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/24/jami-attenberg-interview-women-all-grown-up|title=Jami Attenberg: 'I wanted to see if there were other happy endings for single women'|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|date=2017-03-24|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190103/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/24/jami-attenberg-interview-women-all-grown-up|url-status=live}} Attenberg has also worked at WORD bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a job she took after giving several readings at the store.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/selling-books-by-day-writing-them-by-night.html|title=Selling Books by Day, Writing Them by Night|last=Sullivan|first=J. Courtney|date=2011-05-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202130637/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/selling-books-by-day-writing-them-by-night.html|url-status=live}}

In 2018 Attenberg began leading an accountability practice for writers called 1000 words. It is a newsletter and community wherein writers encourage each other to write 1000 words each day. In 2024 Attenberg published a compilation volume containing the thoughts and advice of 50 well-known writers responding to the 1000 words movement.{{Cite magazine |last=Puckett-Pope |first=Lauren |date=January 11, 2024 |title=Can You Rescue a Writer With 1000 Words? |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a46317500/jami-attenberg-1000-words-interview/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |magazine=Elle}}

In 2006, Attenberg published a collection of short stories with Random/Shaye Areheart under the title Instant Love.{{Cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-307-33782-5|title=Fiction Book Review: Instant Love by Jami Attenberg, Author . Random/Shaye Areheart $21 (267p) ISBN 978-0-307-33782-5|date=April 3, 2006|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190223/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-307-33782-5|url-status=live}} Two novels followed: The Kept Man (Riverhead, 2008){{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Review-Wife-cheered-by-househusbands-in-3299408.php|title=Review: Wife cheered by househusbands in Attenberg's 'Kept Man'|last=North|first=Anna|date=December 19, 2007|work=SFGate|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202072035/http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Review-Wife-cheered-by-househusbands-in-3299408.php|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jami-attenberg/the-kept-man/|title=THE KEPT MAN by Jami Attenberg|date=December 1, 2007|work=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=February 1, 2018|archive-date=February 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202072213/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jami-attenberg/the-kept-man/|url-status=live}} and The Melting Season (2010).{{Cite web |url=http://www.bookforum.com/review/5065 |title=BookForum |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-date=2016-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912212939/http://www.bookforum.com/review/5065 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/14-books-about-self-love-to-read-this-valentines-day-36469|title=Show Yourself Some Love With These 14 Books|last=Oulton|first=Emma|date=February 14, 2017|work=Bustle|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071826/https://www.bustle.com/p/14-books-about-self-love-to-read-this-valentines-day-36469|url-status=live}}

Following a change in publisher and accompanying marketing strategy (with subsequent works promoted not as women's fiction but instead as literary fiction, including a blurb from Jonathan Franzen on her third book), Attenberg experienced a literary breakthrough in 2012 with her third novel The Middlesteins,{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165558079/hungry-hearts-and-family-matters-in-middlesteins|title=Hungry Hearts And Family Matters In 'Middlesteins'|last=Corrigan|first=Maureen|date=November 20, 2012|work=Fresh Air|access-date=2018-02-01|publisher=NPR|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071715/https://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165558079/hungry-hearts-and-family-matters-in-middlesteins|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/9914830/The-Middlesteins-by-Jami-Attenberg-review.html|title=The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg: review|last=Beresford|first=Lucy|date=2013-03-14|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202090142/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/9914830/The-Middlesteins-by-Jami-Attenberg-review.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/109396/middlesteins-jami-attenberg-middle-america-obesity|title=A Middlemarch for Middle America|last=Kirsch|first=Adam|date=October 31, 2012|magazine=New Republic|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202072002/https://newrepublic.com/article/109396/middlesteins-jami-attenberg-middle-america-obesity|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/review-the-middlesteins-by-jami-attenberg-8488421.html|title=Review: The Middlesteins, By Jami Attenberg|last=Hahn|first=Daniel|date=2013-02-10|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-GB|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071814/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/review-the-middlesteins-by-jami-attenberg-8488421.html|url-status=live}} which became a New York Times bestseller{{Cite web |url=http://jamiattenberg.com/site/press |title=Press section of author's website. |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820124910/http://jamiattenberg.com/site/press |archive-date=2016-08-20 |url-status=dead }} and was listed among the ten best-selling books on Amazon in 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000852191&plgroup=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128044102/http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000852191&plgroup=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-28|title=Best Books of Year: Top 100 Picks for 2012|date=2012-11-28|website=Amazon|access-date=2018-02-01}} The book describes "a suburban Jewish family, and how it reacts to the disaster unfolding in its midst," Julie Orringer wrote in a New York Times review, with different chapters narrated from different characters' point of view.{{Cite news|last=Orringer|first=Julie|date=2012-12-27|title='The Middlesteins,' by Jami Attenberg|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/books/review/the-middlesteins-by-jami-attenberg.html|access-date=2018-02-01|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202130623/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/books/review/the-middlesteins-by-jami-attenberg.html|url-status=live}} The Middlesteins was translated into multiple languages and Attenberg was nominated for multiple literature awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize[http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2012/ L.A. Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802131412/http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2012/ |date=2015-08-02 }} and the St. Francis College Literary Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfc.edu/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=387|title=SFC Announces Short List for $50,000 Literary Prize|date=August 15, 2013|website=www.sfc.edu|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071752/http://www.sfc.edu/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=387|url-status=live}}

In 2015, Attenberg published her fifth book, Saint Mazie (Hachette).{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/01/saint-mazie-jamie-attenberg-review-new-york|title=Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg review – a love letter to Jazz Age New York|last=Johncock|first=Benjamin|date=2015-07-01|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190229/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/01/saint-mazie-jamie-attenberg-review-new-york|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-saint-mazie-jami-attenberg-20150521-story.html|title=Review: 'Saint Mazie' by Jami Attenberg|last=Gentry|first=Amy|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071548/http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-saint-mazie-jami-attenberg-20150521-story.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/06/11/412911821/mazie-pays-homage-to-a-real-life-saint-of-the-streets|title='Mazie' Pays Homage To A Real-Life Saint Of The Streets|last=Cheuse|first=Alan|date=June 11, 2016|work=NPR|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202073139/https://www.npr.org/2015/06/11/412911821/mazie-pays-homage-to-a-real-life-saint-of-the-streets|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/06/06/book-review-saint-mazie-jami-attenberg/inPG9avLkKJUscM2nIv8ML/story.html|title=Book review: Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg|last=Solomon|first=Anna|date=June 6, 2015|work=Boston Globe|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071704/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/06/06/book-review-saint-mazie-jami-attenberg/inPG9avLkKJUscM2nIv8ML/story.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/saint-mazie-by-jami-attenberg-book-review-a-big-hearted-story-of-old-new-york-10328711.html|title=Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg, book review: A big-hearted story of old|last=Scholes|first=Lucy|date=2015-06-18|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-GB|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071519/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/saint-mazie-by-jami-attenberg-book-review-a-big-hearted-story-of-old-new-york-10328711.html|url-status=live}} Saint Mazie is a historical novel based on Mazie Gordon-Phillips, who lived in New York in the Jazz Age; the novel is written as her fictional diary discovered by a documentary filmmaker researching her life.{{Cite news|last=Ingall|first=Marjorie|date=2015-06-09|title='Saint Mazie,' by Jami Attenberg|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/saint-mazie-by-jami-attenberg.html|access-date=2018-02-01|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071940/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/saint-mazie-by-jami-attenberg.html|url-status=live}} Buzzfeed listed Saint Mazie as one of the 27 "Most Exciting Books of 2015."{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/new-year-new-reads|title=27 Of The Most Exciting New Books Of 2015|last=Lee|first=Jarry|date=January 8, 2015|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071540/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/new-year-new-reads|url-status=live}}

Attenberg's next novel, All Grown Up, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US in March 2017,{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jami-attenberg-all-grown-up|title=Jami Attenberg on All Grown Up and Why Adulting Is Overrated|last=Felsenthal|first=Julia|date=March 7, 2017|work=Vogue|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106182750/https://www.vogue.com/article/jami-attenberg-all-grown-up|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/7b470a24-1dd1-11e7-a454-ab04428977f9|title=All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg — loveless, actually|last=Jacobs|first=Emma|date=April 13, 2017|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190047/https://www.ft.com/content/7b470a24-1dd1-11e7-a454-ab04428977f9|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515439535/all-grown-up-is-the-picture-of-someone-who-isnt-and-a-voice-thats-nothing-new|title='All Grown Up' Is The Picture Of Someone Who Isn't (And A Voice That's Nothing New)|last=Quinn|first=Annalisa|date=March 8, 2017|work=NPR|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en|archive-date=2018-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131191626/https://www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515439535/all-grown-up-is-the-picture-of-someone-who-isnt-and-a-voice-thats-nothing-new|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/all-grown-up-by-jami-attenberg-review-difficult-selfish-a-true-to-life-heroine-|title=All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg review – difficult, selfish, a true-to-life heroine|last=Guest|first=Katy|date=2017-04-01|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190119/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/all-grown-up-by-jami-attenberg-review-difficult-selfish-a-true-to-life-heroine-|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/all-grown-up-by-jami-attenberg-is-an-x-ray-of-gen-x-life/2017/03/01/b41eaed2-febf-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html|title='All Grown Up,' by Jami Attenberg, is an X-ray of Gen X life|last=Maran|first=Meredith|date=2017-03-02|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071713/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/all-grown-up-by-jami-attenberg-is-an-x-ray-of-gen-x-life/2017/03/01/b41eaed2-febf-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html|url-status=live}} and in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Holland in 2017–2018. All Grown Up tells the story of 39-year-old Andrea Bern, who is single and living in New York as her family cares for her terminally ill niece in New Hampshire. In The New York Times, Helen Schulman notes that like The Middlesteins, All Grown Up "is in part about choosing to save yourself even if that means letting down someone who really needs you."{{Cite news|last=Schulman|first=Helen|date=2017-03-09|title=A Heroine Who Does Adulthood on Her Own Terms|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/books/review/all-grown-up-jami-attenberg.html|access-date=2018-02-01|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071855/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/books/review/all-grown-up-jami-attenberg.html|url-status=live}}

In October 2019, she published All This Could Be Yours.{{Cite web|last=Libman|first=Ben|date=2020-04-03|title=All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg review – the sins of the father|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/03/all-this-could-be-yours-by-jami-attenberg-review-the-sins-of-the-father|access-date=2022-01-14|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=2021-01-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122050021/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/03/all-this-could-be-yours-by-jami-attenberg-review-the-sins-of-the-father|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Clarke|first=Brock|date=2019-10-21|title=As a Father Lies Dying, His Family Reckons With Their Troubled Legacy|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/books/review/all-this-could-be-yours-jami-attenberg.html|access-date=2022-01-14|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2020-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213080151/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/books/review/all-this-could-be-yours-jami-attenberg.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=McAlpin|first=Heller|date=2019-10-23|title=In 'All This Could Be Yours,' A Day In The Death Of A Toxic Narcissist|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772299533/in-all-this-could-be-yours-a-day-in-the-death-of-a-toxic-narcissist|access-date=2022-01-14|archive-date=2020-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202104433/https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772299533/in-all-this-could-be-yours-a-day-in-the-death-of-a-toxic-narcissist|url-status=live}} It was selected as a "Publishers Weekly Pick" with a starred review.{{Cite web|date=July 8, 2019|title=Fiction Book Review: All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-544-82425-6|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-544-82425-6|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Publishers Weekly|language=en|archive-date=2020-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920043511/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-544-82425-6}}

Attenberg's essays have been published in The New York Times,{{Cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection=Real%20Estate®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=article#/jami+attenberg/since1851/allresults/1/byjami+attenberg/ |title=New York Times article search |access-date=2017-09-09 |archive-date=2017-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510081547/http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection=Real%20Estate®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=article#/jami+attenberg/since1851/allresults/1/byjami+attenberg/ |url-status=live }} The Wall Street Journal,{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/novelist-jami-attenberg-on-why-whiskey-is-for-sharing-1436546253 |title=Wall Street Journal: Novelist Jami Attenberg on Why Whiskey Is for Sharing |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=10 July 2015 |access-date=2017-03-07 |archive-date=2017-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326231014/https://www.wsj.com/articles/novelist-jami-attenberg-on-why-whiskey-is-for-sharing-1436546253 |url-status=live |last1=Attenberg |first1=Jami }} Vogue,{{Cite web |url=http://www.vogue.com/contributor/jami-attenberg/ |title=Vogue Contributor Page: Jami Attenberg |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-date=2016-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915122358/http://www.vogue.com/contributor/jami-attenberg/ |url-status=live }} Elle{{Cite web |url=http://www.elle.com/author/5786/jami-attenberg/ |title=Elle Author Page: Jami Attenberg |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-date=2016-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910133941/http://www.elle.com/author/5786/jami-attenberg/ |url-status=live }} and Lenny Letter.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lennyletter.com/author/14928/jami-attenberg/ |title=Lenny Letter Author Page: Jami Attenberg |access-date=2016-08-20 |archive-date=2016-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003154204/http://www.lennyletter.com/author/14928/jami-attenberg/ |url-status=live }} In January 2022, she published a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You;{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-12-20|title=The Best Books of 2022: A Preview|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/best-books-2022|access-date=2022-01-15|website=Vogue|language=en-US}} in a review in The New York Times, Claire Dederer said the book reflected Attenberg's "gifts as a novelist: a fierce impulse toward honesty, a companionably cranky voice and an interest in the complicated, bobbing and weaving ways in which people navigate their desires."{{Cite news|last=Dederer|first=Claire|date=2022-01-11|title=Jami Attenberg's Memoir Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Born Writer|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/books/review/i-came-all-this-way-to-meet-you-jami-attenberg.html|access-date=2022-01-13|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2022-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112163003/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/books/review/i-came-all-this-way-to-meet-you-jami-attenberg.html|url-status=live}}

Attenberg lives in New Orleans, LA.{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2019/10/jami-attenberg-interview-all-this-could-be-yours/|title=In Jami Attenberg's 'All This Could Be Yours,' a Family Confronts Its Patriarch|date=2019-10-28|website=Observer|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-26|archive-date=2020-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126031927/https://observer.com/2019/10/jami-attenberg-interview-all-this-could-be-yours/|url-status=live}}

• {{cite book |title=Instant Love: Fiction |date=2006 |publisher=Shaye Areheart Books |isbn=978-0-307-33782-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xnzAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}

• {{cite book |title=The Kept Man |date=2007 |publisher=Riverhead Books |isbn=978-1-101-21801-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVKdaI5s0OQC&q=The+Kept+Man+Jami |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=The Melting Season |date=2010 |publisher=Riverhead Books |isbn=978-1-59448-896-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c43BDAEACAAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=The Middlesteins |date=2012 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=978-1-4555-0719-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZxbCPlmExMC&q=The+Middlesteins |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=Saint Mazie |date=2015 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=978-1-4555-9988-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ60BAAAQBAJ&q=Saint+Mazie |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=All Grown Up |date=2017 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-544-82426-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcilDAAAQBAJ&q=All+grown+up+attenberg |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=All This Could Be Yours |date=2019 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-544-82425-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2KmDwAAQBAJ&q=attenberg+All+This+Could+Be+Yours |language=en}}
• {{cite book |title=A Reason to See You Again |publisher=Ecco |year=2024 |isbn=9780063039841}}{{cite web |last=Greenblatt |first=Leah |date=2024-09-21 |title=Book Review: 'A Reason to See You Again,' by Jami Attenberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/books/review/a-reason-to-see-you-again-jami-attenberg.html |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=The New York Times}}{{cite web |last=Tuttle |first=Kate |date=2024-09-19 |title=Jami Attenberg's new novel spans decades in the lives of sisters, as they spar and come back together |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/19/arts/jami-attenberg-a-reason-to-see-you-again/ |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=BostonGlobe.com}}

• {{cite book |title=I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home |date=2022 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-303981-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuIoEAAAQBAJ&q=%27I+Came+All+This+Way+to+Meet+You:+Writing+Myself+Home%27 |language=en}} {{Cite web |date=2024-07-30 |title=Jami Attenberg's I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home {{!}} The Brooklyn Rail |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/books/I-Came-All-This-Way-to-Meet-You-Writing-Myself-Home/ |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=brooklynrail.org |language=en}}

• {{cite book |title=1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round |isbn=9781668023600 |year=2024 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hu7oEAAAQBAJ}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.jamiattenberg.com/}}

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