Ocean Vuong Book List

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Book List in Order: 2 titles

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Jun-2019
- / Literary
Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Do...

The Emperor of Gladness
- May-2025
- / Literary
“The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint ...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2019 Foyles Book of the Year -- Fiction

Ocean Vuong has published 2 books.

The next book by Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in June 2019.

No. Ocean Vuong does not write books in series.