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Nghi Vo

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Nghi Vo is the author of the acclaimed novellas The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind. The Chosen and the Beautiful is her debut novel.

Average rating: 3.87 · 139,780 ratings · 26,622 reviews · 41 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Empress of Salt and For...

3.91 avg rating — 45,091 ratings — published 2020 — 23 editions
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When the Tiger Came Down th...

4.16 avg rating — 18,679 ratings — published 2020 — 20 editions
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The Chosen and the Beautiful

3.54 avg rating — 18,933 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions
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Siren Queen

3.67 avg rating — 13,099 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions
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Into the Riverlands (The Si...

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Mammoths at the Gates (The ...

4.20 avg rating — 7,540 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions
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What the Dead Know (Into Sh...

3.58 avg rating — 7,152 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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The Brides of High Hill (Th...

4.13 avg rating — 5,870 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions
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The City in Glass

3.70 avg rating — 6,549 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions
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A Mouthful of Dust (The Sin...

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“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small.”
Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”
Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

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Which book should be our "moderator recommends" read for April 2025?

Wool (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey
Wool
Hugh Howey

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
 
  12 votes 41.4%

The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Nghi Vo

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.
 
  10 votes 34.5%

Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert
Dune
Frank Herbert

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
 
  7 votes 24.1%

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