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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 28 titles



  • In this "impressive debut" from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city and herself. (The Washington Post)The rich and priv...



  • A "[d]eeply satisfying" [The New York Times Book Review] story of a father who has committed an unbelievable crime and a daughter who must then fight to save her own life."Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie comp...



  • The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily lif...




  • A breathtaking novel from the award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson about two women, two worlds, fated to encounter one another. Sheeny lives in a world scoured clean by the glass wind that comes roaring out of the empty space where a mountai...



  • Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, became a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and ga...



  • The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....



  • When enslaved people were brought from the western part of Africa to the Americas, they were forbidden to speak their native languages or practice their religions in the New World. But their folkways survived as underground beliefs, and, in the cruci...







  • From the SFWA Grand Master, a“sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic . . . tour de force” that blends fantasy, women’s history, and slavery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island o...



  • Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.

    It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology

    Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.

    While o...



  • What's in a name? A lot, according to 50-something-year-old Caribbean born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: Her beloved father has just died, and she...



  • So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.Stories of imagined future...







  • An acclaimed fantasy author navigates the world between myth and chaos in this compelling exploration of identity, told with a Caribbean lilt. Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in -- at home she's the perfect daughter, at school she's provo...



  • Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of advent...



  • As the only one in the family without magic, Makeda has decided to move out on her own and make a life for herself among the claypicken humans. But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to find her own power--and reconcile with her twin sist...



  • An alluring new collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Sister Mine) is an internationally-beloved storyteller. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "...






  • From her bayou, Erzulie scries upon the mortal realm and sees four human girls open a mysterious and magical journal filled with whispers and rumors that, if they spread, could cause a pandemic unlike any the Earth has seen, with the power to release...



  • The pandemic is spreading, and Erzulie is calling upon all her distant contacts to aid her in stopping Shakpana and his infection. The souls trapped in the Dreaming are restless, seeking any help they can attain to escape from their "predeceased" sta...



  • The goddess Erzulie is grieving the loss of one of her husbands, while her remaining spouses are asking themselves if they can remain by her side. But in the darkness, the Corinthian has his eyes on Erzulie�s place. Erzulie will need allies-includi...



  • "What is it like to have the House of Whispers as the house next door?

    Follow a young woman as she finds out. This unexpected domestic mishap leaves her in dire need of aid from Erzulie and Ogun... whether she knows it or not.

    Written...



  • Two monumental works from the SFWA Grand Master who is “preparing to take her place among the world’s most celebrated black women writers” (Toronto Star).   Experience the rich imagination and genre-defying writing of multiple-award-winnin...



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  • The curse of the shape-shifting soucouyant may be more real -- and more immediate -- than a skeptical doctoral student may suspect....



  • The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award"winning author Nalo Hopkinson.Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hop...



  • Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landsc...


Award-Winning Books by Nalo Hopkinson

Brown Girl in the Ring
1999 Locus Award -- First Novel
Salt Roads
2004 Spectrum Award -- Novel
Skin Folk
2002 World Fantasy Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nalo Hopkinson has published 28 books.

The next book by Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring, was published in July 1998.

No. Nalo Hopkinson does not write books in series.