Nobody Is Ever Missing is a 2014 debut novel by American writer Catherine Lacey published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[4] In his review of Lacey's second novel, The Answers, Dwight Garner praised Nobody Is Ever Missing.

[5] Garner wrote that strong debut novels make him wary of an author's ability to produce a sophomore work of similar quality but he ultimately found his worries about the quality of The Answers unfounded.

[5] In a review for The Guardian the novel was praised as "wry, surprising, and blackly funny."

With the reviewer noting, "Lacey has produced a novel of uncomfortable power.