Lila is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2014.

According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on fifteen critic reviews with ten being "rave" and four being "positive" and one being "pan".

[3] In a review for The Atlantic Leslie Jamison praised the novel as "brilliant and deeply affecting.

"[4] In another review, Sarah Churchwell wrote, "Lila... offers Robinson's characteristic delights: glorious prose, subtle wisdom and a darkly numinous atmosphere, lit at moments by a visionary wonder shading into exaltation.

"[5] In Books and Culture, Linda Moore offers "a dissenting view", critiquing the Christianity that Robinson writes about as "gospel thin, exiguous, a story slight and wanting, and Flannery isn't here to say so.