R.F. Kuang
R.F. Kuang has written at least 14 books. Their most popular book is Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution with 2769 saves with an average rating of 4.07⭐. Their next book, Katabasis, is scheduled for release on .
Author Bio
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.
2002 • 2,769 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1
2023 • 2,240 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9
Available August 26, 2025 • 179 Readers • 560 pages • 5
2022 • 67 Readers • 3.8
#9 of 10 in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
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