R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War

1 - The Poppy War (May-2018)
2 - The Dragon Republic (Aug-2019)
3 - The Burning God (Nov-2020)

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  The Poppy War
  

  • May-2018
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  The Poppy War - 1
  

  A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's 20th century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu's Grace of Kings and N. K. J...

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  The Dragon Republic
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Fantasy
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  The Poppy War - 2
  

  Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War -- an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout...

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  The Burning God
  

  • Nov-2020
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  The Poppy War - 3
  

  The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her ...

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  Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
  

  • Aug-2022
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  From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as ...

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  Yellowface
  

  • May-2023
  • / Women's Fiction
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  What’s the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American -- in this chilling and hilariously cutting...

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  Dragon Republic Collector's Edition
  

  • Jun-2025
  • / Fantasy
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  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface comes an all-new, fully illustrated, hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of R. F. Kuang’s The Dragon Republic, with a full-wrap illustrated ...

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  Katabasis
  

  • Sep-2025
  • / Fantasy
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  Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must ...

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Award-Winning Books by R.F. Kuang

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
2022 Nebula Award -- Novel
2023 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Yellowface
2023 Foyles Book of the Year -- Fiction
2023 Goodreads Choice Award -- Fiction