We Need to Talk About Kevin Reading Order

Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) is the Orange Prize-winning novel told through letters — Eva Khatchadourian writing to her estranged husband Franklin about their son Kevin, who at fifteen committed a school massacre. Shriver's novel asks who is responsible for a child who becomes a killer: the cold mother who never loved him, the indulgent father who refused to see who he was, or the boy himself? One of the most discussed and debated novels of the 2000s, adapted into the 2011 film with Tilda Swinton.