The Poppy War
Clean · 527p
Starts as a school story. Ends in genocide. Rin is a war orphan who discovers shamanic powers. Inspired by 20th century Chinese history. One of the most brutal and brilliant fantasy trilogies ever written.
The Poppy War
🌶️ · 544p
Rin aces the military academy exam to escape her fate. But war is coming, and the gods she calls upon demand a terrible price.
The Poppy War
🌶️ · 544p
Rin aces the military academy exam to escape her fate. But war is coming, and the gods she calls upon demand a terrible price. Dark, brutal fantasy inspired by 20th-century China.
The Poppy War
Clean · 527p
Rin tests into the most elite military academy in the empire. Then war comes. Inspired by Chinese history and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Starts as dark academia, ends as war crime fiction.
The Poppy War
Clean · 527p
Rin aces the empire's test and enters military academy. Then discovers she can summon gods. Inspired by Chinese history and the Sino-Japanese War. Gets progressively darker and never lets up.
The Poppy War
Clean · 544p
Rin tests into the most elite military academy in the empire. Then war comes. Inspired by Chinese history, this starts as dark academia and becomes a brutally honest war epic.
The Poppy War
Clean · 527p
Rin is an orphan war-student who discovers shamanic powers. Then the real war begins. Inspired by the Second Sino-Japanese War. Grimdark fantasy with teeth.
The Poppy War
🌶️ · 527p
Rin tests into the most elite military academy in the empire. Then war comes. Inspired by Chinese history and the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book doesn't pull punches.
The Poppy War
🌶️ · 560p
A war orphan aces the imperial entrance exam. What follows is brutal military fantasy inspired by 20th-century China.
The Poppy War
Clean · 544p
Rin aces the exam, enters the academy, discovers she has shamanic powers. Then war comes and nothing is the same. Grimdark fantasy inspired by Chinese history.
Babel
Clean · 545p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin is brought from Canton to study at Babel, the center of the British Empire's power. Then he has to choose: the institution that raised him, or the people it oppresses. Dark academia done RIGHT.
Babel
Clean · 545p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift is brought from Canton to study at Babel, the center of the British Empire's power. Then he has to choose between the institution and justice.
Babel
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Translation magic powers the British Empire. Robin Swift must decide if he'll serve the system that raised him or burn it down. Dark academia meets anti-colonial rage. Brilliant and furious.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
Clean · 545p
Translation is magic, literally. Robin Swift enters Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation and discovers the empire runs on stolen languages. Dark academia about colonialism with silver-working magic.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
Clean · 560p
Robin is a translator at Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, where silver bars powered by lost-in-translation meaning fuel the British Empire. A dark academia novel about colonialism, language, and revolution.
Babel
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic. Empire is built on it. Robin Swift is caught between the institution that raised him and the people it exploits. It's a love letter to language wrapped in righteous fury.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift is brought from Canton to the Royal Institute of Translation, where silver-work powers the British Empire. A love letter to language and a furious indictment of colonialism.
Babel
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift, a Chinese orphan, discovers the empire's power runs on stolen languages. Dark academia meets anti-colonial revolution.
Babel
Clean · 545p
Oxford's translation institute powers the British Empire through silver-worked etymology. Robin Swift is the empire's tool until he decides to become its undoing. Dark academia but make it revolutionary.
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Robin Swift is brought from Canton to study translation — the magic that powers the British Empire. A searing critique of colonialism wrapped in dark academia aesthetics. Brilliant and furious.
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence
Clean · 545p
Oxford, 1836. The British Empire runs on silver-work — magical translation. Robin Swift, a Chinese orphan, must decide: join the system or destroy it. The dark academia book to end all dark academia books.
Babel
Clean · 544p
Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation runs on silver-work powered by language. Robin Swift discovers the Empire's magic is built on exploitation. Dark academia at its finest.
Babel
Clean · 560p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift is recruited into Babel, the institution that fuels the British Empire's power. Then he must choose between the empire and revolution.
Babel
Clean · 545p
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift is brought from Canton to serve the British Empire's silver-working. But how long can he serve a system that devours his own people?
Babel
Clean · 560p
Oxford 1836. Translation is magic. Silver-work powers the British Empire. Robin Swift must decide: loyalty to the institution that saved him or to the people it exploits.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
A white author steals her dead Asian friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own. It becomes a bestseller. The spiral into paranoia and justification is DELICIOUS. Kuang is ruthless.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
A white author steals her dead friend's manuscript about Chinese laborers in WWI and publishes it as her own. The publishing industry satire is vicious. Kuang wrote this angry and it shows.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
June steals her dead friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own. The publishing industry satire is razor-sharp. The spiral of lies is both cringey and compulsive. You'll read it in one sitting.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
June steals her dead friend's manuscript — a Chinese American woman's novel — and publishes it as her own. A razor-sharp satire of publishing, race, and the internet.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
A white woman steals her dead Asian friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own. The satire of publishing, race, and cancel culture is razor-sharp. Kuang is furious and it's glorious.
Yellowface
Clean · 323p
June steals her dead friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own. The publishing industry satire is razor-sharp. The descent into paranoia is delicious. You'll hate June and can't stop reading.
Yellowface
Clean · 336p
A white author steals her dead Asian friend's manuscript and passes it off as her own. It does not go well.
Yellowface
Clean · 323p
June steals a dead friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own. A razor-sharp satire of publishing, race, and who gets to tell what stories.
The Familiar
🌶️ · 416p
Dante's Inferno meets Piranesi. Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul. R.F. Kuang continues to dominate BookTok.