Dad, Love, Me
memoir · First published 2026
Author guide
Matthew Quick Books in Order
Matthew Quick is an American novelist and memoirist whose work often explores mental health, trauma, grief, forgiveness, and healing. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in South Carolina with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette.
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The Silver Linings Playbook
The author's debut novel and best-known work.
Dad, Love, Me
The author's first nonfiction book and memoir.
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Novels (9)
- The Silver Linings Playbook
novel · 2008
Meet Pat. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending for him — the return of his estranged wife, Nikki.…
- Sorta Like a Rock Star
young-adult-novel · 2010
Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom's boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (aka Thrice B) have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives).…
- Boy21
young-adult-novel · 2012
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African…
- Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
young-adult-novel · 2013
How would you spend your birthday if you knew it would be your last? Eighteen-year-old Leonard Peacock knows exactly what he'll do. He'll say goodbye. Not to his mum - who he calls Linda because it annoys her - who's moved out and left…
- The Good Luck of Right Now
novel · 2014
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a…
- Love May Fail
novel · 2015
Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher who has retired after a traumatic…
- Every Exquisite Thing
young-adult-novel · 2016
Nanette O'Hare has played the quintessential privileged star athlete and straight-A student for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper--a mysterious, out-of-print cult…
- The Reason You're Alive
novel · 2017
After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has ever…
- We Are the Light
novel · 2022
From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award–winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper—comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes…
Nonfiction (1)
- Dad, Love, Me
memoir · 2026