Nghi Vo

The Singing Hills Cycle

1 - The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Mar-2020)
2 - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Dec-2020)
3 - Into the Riverlands (Nov-2022)
4 - Mammoths at the Gate (Sep-2023)
5 - The Brides of High Hill (May-2024)

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  The Empress of Salt and Fortune
  

  • Mar-2020
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 1
  

  With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women. A young royal from the fa...

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  When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
  

  • Dec-2020
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 2
  

  The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover-a woman...

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  The Chosen and the Beautiful
  

  • Jun-2021
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  Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society -- she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also q...

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  Siren Queen
  

  • May-2022
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  "Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy.” -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Hu...

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  Into the Riverlands
  

  • Nov-2022
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 3
  

  Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...Lambda Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistHugo Award Finalist for Best NovellaLocus Award Finalist for Best NovellaA Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Mag...

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  Mammoths at the Gates
  

  • 2023
  • / Science Fiction
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  Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood
  

  • 2023
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  Mammoths at the Gate
  

  • Sep-2023
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 4
  

  The Crawford and Hugo Award-Winning Series Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella; shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction; One of Book Riot's Best Fantasy Debuts o...

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  On the Fox Roads
  

  • Dec-2023
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  A new novelette from Hugo Award-winning author, Nghi Vo!While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads. . .A...

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  The Brides of High Hill
  

  • May-2024
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 5
  

  Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.Featured in BookBub | Book Riot | Gizmodo | Amazon Best SF&F of 2024 So Far pick | An NPR Best Book of the Year"A remarkab...

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  The City in Glass
  

  • Oct-2024
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  In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly T...

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  Don't Sleep with the Dead
  

  • Apr-2025
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  From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby. “A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age cla...

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  A Mouthful of Dust
  

  • Oct-2025
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  Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle.Nghi Vo is so good.―NPR on The Brides of High HillWandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the riv...

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Award-Winning Books by Nghi Vo

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
2021 Hugo Award -- Novella
Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood
2024 World Fantasy Award -- Short Fiction