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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2012
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Sorcerer Royal Novel

1 - Sorcerer to the Crown (Sep-2015)
2 - Sorcerer Royal (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She's perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London's leading literary luminaries ...



  • Winner of the LA Times/Ray Bradbury PrizeNineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added sto...



  • Cyberpunk is edited by the British Fantasy Award writer Zen Cho.Cyberpunk as you've never seen it before… Science fiction is all about outrageous ideas. Nice Malay girls breaking the rules. Censorship. Brain drain. Moral policing. Migrant exploitat...



  • Magic and mayhem clash with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut. The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers maintains the magic within His Majesty’s lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, na...



  • A tale of first love, bad theology and robot reincarnation in the Chinese afterlife.In the tenth court of hell, spirits wealthy enough to bribe the bureaucrats of the underworld can avoid both the torments of hell and the irreversible change of reinc...



  • The follow-up to Sorcerer to the Crown, the debut novel about magic, mayhem, and the British elite. ...



  • 2019 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novelette.A hapless imugi is determined to attain the form of a full-fledged dragon and gain entry to the gates of heaven. For a long time, things don't go well. Then, it meets a girl. The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy B...



  • Signed Edition Fairyland's future lies in doubt... The enchanted island of Janda Baik, in the Malay Archipelago, has long been home to witches. And Muna and her sister Sakti wake on its shores under a curse, which has quite stolen away their memori...



  • Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and...






  • A finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best NovelOne of BookPage's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 One of Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2021 One of Book Riot's Best SFF Standalones of 2021 “Ghosts. Gods. Gangsters....



  • From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London.From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous -- and profitable -- ...



  • Award-winning author Zen Cho delivers a sparkling and witty rivals-to-lovers romance reminiscent of Sally Thorn's The Hating Game and Sajni Patel's The Trouble with Hating You.Sparks fly when an ambitious rules-bound lawyer clashes with a maverick ne...


Award-Winning Books by Zen Cho

If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
2019 Hugo Award -- Novelette


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Zen Cho has published 12 books.

The next book by Zen Cho, Behind Frenemy Lines, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, was published in June 2012.

Yes. Zen Cho has 1 series.