Lavie Tidhar

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2007
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bookman Histories

1 - The Bookman (Aug-2010)
2 - Camera Obscura (Nov-2010)
3 - The Great Game (Feb-2012)

Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • Hebrewpunk

    THE CLASSIC COLLECTION OF JEWISH FANTASY!“Marks a milestone in the literature of the fantastic.” " Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk TrilogyIn HebrewPunk, World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar had reinvented pulp fantasy fictio...

  • The Apex Book of World SF

    The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe, and around the world.

    The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one coun...

  • The Solnet Ascendancy

    in Shine

    A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow. Definitely not a plethora of Pollyannas (but neither a barrage of dystopias), ...

  • The Bookman

    Bookman Histories - 1

    LATE EXTRA! BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON! When his beloved is killed in a terrorist atrocity committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes enmeshed in a web of secrets and lies. his quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catac...

  • An Occupation Of Angels

    A British secret agent is caught in a plot to assassinate archangels who settled Earth after WWII in this classic thriller from the World Fantasy Award winning author!

    “Sharp, brutal, cool--yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly r...

  • Camera Obscura

    Bookman Histories - 2

    CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the st...

  • The Projected Girl

    in Naked City

    In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher’s ”Curses” Harry Dresden investigates how to lift ...

  • Jesus and the Eightfold Path

    Three wise men came from the East for the infant Jesus in The New Testament. Three brave companions accompany the Buddha in the Chinese classic A Journey to the West. Could they have been the same three? Guided by a star, three strange companions arr...

  • The Great Game

    Bookman Histories - 3

    When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spi...



  • Osama

    Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 London, King’s Cross and 2004 Sin...

  • The Bookman Histories

    Containing all three Bookman History novels: "The Bookman Camera Obscura"; "The Great Game"; and "The Bookman". When his beloved is killed in a terrorist atrocity by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes enmeshed in a web of secrets and lie...

  • Martian Sands

    1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt’s office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future . . . The future: w...

  • Dragonkin

    There are kin and there are -kin. There are not many dragons, but there are many who think they are, or want to be, or claim to remember being....

  • The Violent Century

    “If John le Carre wrote a superhero novel about the Cold War, it might be this good.” -- Charles Stross “A torrid tour de force.” -- James Ellroy “Like Watchmen on crack.” -- io9 A bold experiment has mutated a small fraction of humanit...

  • Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God

    A legend tells of the Mirror of Falang-Et: a magical object in the city of the frog tribes, which can tell all manner of truths. . . There is only one truth Gorel of Goliris " gunslinger, addict, touched by the Black Kiss " is interested in: find...

  • Selfies

    "Selfies", by Lavie Tidhar, is a creepy little horror tale about the fate of a young woman who makes the mistake of a lifetime when she buys a new phone in the local mall.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Man...

  • Black Gods Kiss

    His name was Gorel of Goliris and he was a gunslinger and an addict, touched by the Black Kiss. Gorel wanted nothing more than to return to his home, the greatest empire the World had ever known, from which he was banished by sorcery as a child. But ...

  • A Man Lies Dreaming

    “The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar... It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacular conclusion unfolds that you are going to take it all very seriously.” " Sting “Ambitious as hell” "Ian Rankin ...

  • Terminal

    Terminal by Lavie Tidhar is an emotionally wrenching science fiction story about people, who, either having nothing to lose or having a deep desire to go into space, travel to Mars via cheap, one-person, one-way vehicles dubbed jalopies. During the t...



  • Central Station

    Appeals to fans of classic and contemporary science fiction and mainstream fiction Contains international and multicultural themes Israeli-born author has also lived in Vanuatu, Laos, South Africa, Israel, and the UK...

  • Cloud Permutations

    The world of Heven was populated, centuries ago, by Melanesian settlers from distant Earth. It is a peaceful, quiet world yet it harbours ancient secrets. Kai just wants to fly. But flying is the one thing forbidden on Heven -- a world dominated b...

  • Jews Vs Aliens

    In Jews vs Aliens, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from Orange Prize winner Naomi Alderman to Big Bang Theory writer/producer Eric Kaplan, a...

  • Jews Vs Zombies

    In Jews vs Zombies, editors Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene have gathered together brand new stories from the light-hearted to the profound, with authors ranging from BSFA Award winner Adam Roberts to best-selling author Sarah Lotz, all asking, for t...

  • The Old Dispensation

    A space opera adventure set in a universe controlled and run by Jewish religious authorities. An enforcer is sent to a distant planet where he discovers an android who changes his mind about what is right and wrong.At the Publisher's request, this t...

  • Yiwu

    Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined. Lavi...

  • Unholy Land

    NPR Books Best Books of 2018 Library Journal Best Books of 2018 Publishers Weekly Top Books of 2018 UK Guardian Best Books of 2018 From the bestselling author of Central Station comes an extraordinary new novel recalling China Miéville and Michael C...

  • The Vanishing Kind

    LONGLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA  |  YEAR’S BEST SF SELECTION (GARDNER DOZOIS)  |  YEAR’S BEST SF&F SELECTION (RICH HORTON)  |  YEAR’S TOP SHORT SF NOVELS SELECTION (ALLEN KASTER) “Lon...

  • It's Hard to be a Filipino in Hebrew

  • In Xanadu

    Lavie Tidhar's space opera sci-fi tale "In Xanadu" is a Tor.com Original. Security through physicality. Security through redundancy. Security through obscurity. How do immortal artificial intelligences defend themselves? With an air gap. With a secur...



  • Adler #1

    For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman – now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It’s the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature t...

  • New Atlantis

    “A complex, layered and hugely enjoyable story” "Bestsf “Lovely work” "Locus When a mysterious message arrives from vanished New Atlantis, a restless Mai undertakes the perilous journey to its drowned isles. But the journey is long and ha...

  • Best of British Fantasy 2019

    Editor Jared Shurin has gathered the very best work published by British and British-based authors in 2019, producing a diverse and surprising set of stories full of wonder, wit, delight and malevolence. They range from traditional to contemporary fa...

  • Adler #3

  • By Force Alone

    “Vicious, beautiful, profane and wickedly funny” " The Washington PostNarcos meets Excalibur in a wide-screen, spell-binding and radical re-imagining of the story of King Arthur as you’ve never seen it before.The king is dead. And so is chiva...

  • Candy

  • The Candy Mafia

    Twelve-year-old private detective Nelle is swept up in a world of candy smuggling in this illustrated, middle grade mystery-comedy from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar.In a city where candy is outlawed, Nelle Faulkner is a preteen private det...

  • Adler #4

    While Irene Adler and Jane Eyre settled into their new London lodgings, they received a visit from the deceased Professor Moriarty’s right-hand man, Colonel Sebastian Moran. However, before he could impart any meaningful information regarding t...

  • Adler #5

    The final battle begins! After an assassination attempt on Irene Adler and Jane Eyre fails, they race to the aerodrome to try to stop Ayesha, She Who Must be Obeyed! From the World Fantasy Award-winning writer Lavie Tidhar and artist Paul McCaffrey ...

  • Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law

    No vampire is ever innocent in Lavie Tidhar's "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law", a Tor.com Original short storyThe wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for any vampire who breaks the laws designed to safeguard their kind’s...



  • The Best of World SF: Volume 1

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  • Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels

    Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar returns with a dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story, "Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels."Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Werdenfel...

  • Adler

    For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman - now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! 

    It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to ...

  • The Big Blind

    “Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” "Library Journal

    The daughter of a legendary card player with skills of her own, Claire doesn...

  • The Lunacy Commission

    “Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own.” "NPR

    “A warped genius... There is no one like him.” " Ian McDonald

    With an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of N...

  • The Best of World SF

    Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.
    'Rare and wonderful' The Times

    'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts

  • The Escapement

    2022 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation, Best Novel In this dazzling new novel evoking Westerns, surrealism, epic fantasy, mythology, and circus extravaganzas, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) has created an incomparable d...

  • Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre

    "Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre" is a dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Lavie Tidhar.Judge Dee returns to solve a new case involving a Parisian party gone wrong. But this time? Everyone in attendance is a ...

  • The Hood

    God bless you, England, on this glorious Year of Our Lord, 1145. Things are definitely not right in Nottingham. Rebecca, daughter of a Jewish money-lender, has a sense for it. A mad monk schemes to resurrect the Christ from body parts. A bone harpis...

  • Seven Vampires

    Paris is burning and Judge Dee and Jonathan are on the run. To guarantee their safety, they join a band of seven vampires escaping to England. The only problem? Someone in their midst is killing off members of their group one by one. It's of no matte...



  • The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1: Apex World SF, #1

  • The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2: Apex World SF, #2

  • The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3: Apex World SF, #3

  • The Best of World SF: 2

    Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

    The second annual instalment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine st...

  • The Best of World SF: Volume 2

    "A bold and powerful argument for non-Anglophone SF’s potential to push the genre’s boundaries." —Publishers Weekly starred review Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fi...

  • Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript

    In this latest Tor.com Original short story by Lavie Tidhar, "Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript,"our beloved hero Judge Dee must himself stand trial before his fellow vampires for the loss of a valuable manuscript, even as those vam...

  • Neom

    Today, Neom is a utopian dream -- a megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative novel from the award-winning universe of Central Station, far-future Neom is already old. Sentient machines roam the desert sea...

  • Maror

  • Best of British Science Fiction 2022

    In this, the eighth year of the Best of British Science Fiction anthology series, editor Donna Scott has outdone herself, scouring magazines, anthologies, webzines and obscure genre corners to discover the very best science fiction stories by British...

  • Adama

  • The Circumference of the World

    Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2023 Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel i...

  • The Best of World SF ~ Vol 3: Volume 3

    SHORTLISTED FOR 'BEST COLLECTION' AT THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2023The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the glo...

  • The Best of World SF: 3

    The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series

    The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If you want to find the most exciting SF a...

  • The Locked Coffin

    A new Judge Dee mystery from Lavie Tidhar!While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan discover the only thing more menacing than a vampire child is twin vampire children...At the Publisher's request...

  • Four Novellas

    “Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” – Library JournalA nun enters a poker tournament as she wrestles with her faith in God; ...

  • Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal

  • The Children's Book of the Future

    A Child's Book of the Future is a narrative nonfiction book that will offer an inclusive and hopeful vision of the future, with a diverse, multicultural approach that will appeal to children of all backgrounds and further appeal to the foreign market...

Award-Winning Books by Lavie Tidhar

Central Station
2017 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
Osama
2012 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lavie Tidhar has published 66 books.

The next book by Lavie Tidhar, The Children's Book of the Future, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Lavie Tidhar, Hebrewpunk, was published in September 2007.

Yes. Lavie Tidhar has 1 series.
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