Super Sad True Love Story

Critical reception

The novel won the Salon Book Award (Fiction, 2010) and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2011). It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2010), New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2010), and Amazon's Best Books of the Month in August 2010. It was named one of the best books of the year by numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, O: The Oprah Magazine, Maureen Corrigan of NPR, and Slate.[6] In 2016, the literary critic Raymond Malewitz published an article on "digital posthumanism" in the novel in the journal Arizona Quarterly.[7] In a more recent article in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Martín Urdiales-Shaw has approached this novel as foregrounding various interrelated "modes of waste", operating across sociopolitical, cultural, ethical and biological paradigms.[8]


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