Dubin's Lives is the seventh published novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud.

It is still in print, Farrar, Straus and Giroux having reissued a paperback edition in 2003 with an Introduction by Thomas Mallon.

— Augustine of Hippo The first epigraph points to the notion that Dubin has written a biography of Thoreau and also alerts the reader to the moral complexities that the novel explores.

Over the years, Dubin's Lives has been well-received, and has consistently garnered attention and sales since it was published.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times concluded that it was "certainly Malamud’s best novel since The Assistant,"; and that maybe it was "the best he has written of all.