R.F. Kuang

• Sep-2026
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• Jun-2026
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R. F. Kuang's instant #1 New York Times bestselling novel!Babel is 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...

• Sep-2025
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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 put ...

• May-2023
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"Hard to put down, harder to forget." --  Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation J...

• 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 ...

• Nov-2020
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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 na...

• Aug-2019
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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 i...

• May-2018
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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...