We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
Open Library readers: 3.95 / 5 from 58 ratings. Separate from ratings here.Catalogue checked 2026-10-02.
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. - Publisher.
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Bibliographic source: Open Library- Who wrote We Were Liars?
We Were Liars is by E. Lockhart. The catalogue records its first publication in 2014. A later edition may have a different publication date on its copyright page.
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The catalogue records 240 pages for a representative edition. Pagination varies with the publisher, format, type size and translation, so check the edition you intend to read.
