Nghi Vo

The Singing Hills Cycle

1 - The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Mar-2020)
2 - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Dec-2020)
3 - Into the Riverlands (Nov-2022)
4 - Mammoths at the Gate (Sep-2023)
5 - The Brides of High Hill (May-2024)

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  The Empress of Salt and Fortune
  

  • Mar-2020
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 1
  

  With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women. A young royal from the fa...

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  When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
  

  • Dec-2020
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 2
  

  The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover-a woman...

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  The Chosen and the Beautiful
  

  • Jun-2021
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  Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society -- she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also q...

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  Siren Queen
  

  • May-2022
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  "Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy.” -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Hu...

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  Into the Riverlands
  

  • Nov-2022
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 3
  

  Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...Lambda Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistHugo Award Finalist for Best NovellaLocus Award Finalist for Best NovellaA Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Mag...

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  Mammoths at the Gate
  

  • Sep-2023
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 4
  

  The Crawford and Hugo Award-Winning Series Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award; One of Book Riot's Best Fantasy Debuts of All Time; A Milwaukee Journal Best of 2023 Pick; A Recommended Reading List Pick for Lo...

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  On the Fox Roads
  

  • Dec-2023
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  A new novelette from Hugo Award-winning author, Nghi Vo!While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads. . .A...

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  The Brides of High Hill
  

  • May-2024
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  The Singing Hills Cycle - 5
  

  Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn."A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." -- NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune"Nghi Vo is one of the most original w...

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  The City in Glass
  

  • Oct-2024
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  In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin. A demon. An angel. A city. The demon Vitrine -- immortal, powerful, and capricious -- loves the da...

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  Don't Sleep with the Dead
  

  • Apr-2025
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  From Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone novella that reads like The Great Gatsby meets The Talented Mr. Ripley “A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was ...

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Award-Winning Books by Nghi Vo

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
2021 Hugo Award -- Novella