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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • “A compulsively readable collection” of short fiction from the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Publishers Weekly). With deadpan humor and originality, Charles Yu spins Kafkaesque tales of modern identity and insecuri...



  • From a 5 Under 35 winner, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where...



  • The author of the widely praised debut novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories. A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during...



  • A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Who explores the final frontier? The ship has reached the last world.  Beamed down from the transporter bay is the captain, the XO, the medic, the security chief, the ethnographer, and fina...



  • A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play -- by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist e...



  • From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision...



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    Threats known and unknown. Etgar Keret. Robert Coover. Aimee Bender. Jim Shepard. Alissa Nutting. Charles Yu. Cory Doctorow. Randa Jarrar. Katherine Karlin. Miracle Jones. Mark Irwin. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Dale Peck. Bonnie Nadzam. Lucy Corin. Chi...




Award-Winning Books by Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown
2020 National Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Yu has published 7 books.

Charles Yu does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Only Living Girl on Earth, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Charles Yu, Third Class Superhero, was published in September 2006.

No. Charles Yu does not write books in series.