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N.K. Jemisin Books in Order
Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. Her Broken Earth series made her the first African American author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, as well as the first author to win in three consecutive years, and the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin, and a fifth Hugo Award, for Best Graphic Story, in 2022 for Far Sector. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of N.K. Jemisin's book series? N.K. Jemisin has written 9 book series. The most notable is the Broken Earth series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by N.K. Jemisin
- #1
The Fifth Season(2015) - #2
The Obelisk Gate(2016) - #3
The Stone Sky(2017) - #4
Stone Hunger(2014)
- #1
The Killing Moon(2012) - #2
The Shadowed Sun(2012) - #3
How Long 'til Black Future Month?(2018)
- #1
Randomize (By: Andy Weir)(2019) - #2
Summer Frost (By: Blake Crouch)(2019) - #3
Ark (By: Veronica Roth)(2019) - #4
You Have Arrived at Your Destination (By: Amor Towles)(2019) - #5
Emergency Skin(2019) - #6
The Last Conversation (By: Paul Tremblay)(2019)
- #1
Far Sector(2021) - #2
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel (With: Kinitra Brooks)(2026) - #3
Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball(2008) - #4Non-Zero Probabilities(2009)
- #5
The City Born Great(2016) - #6
The Ones Who Stay and Fight(2020)
- #1
The City We Became(2020) - #2
The World We Make(2022)
- #1
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms(2010) - #2The Broken Kingdoms(2010)
- #3
The Kingdom of Gods(2011) - #4
The Awakened Kingdom(2014) - #5
Shades in Shadow(2015)
- #1
Nexus Uprising (By: Jason M. Hough)(2017) - #2
Initiation(2017) - #3
Annihilation (By: Catherynne M. Valente)(2018) - #4Initiation (With: Mac Walters)(2017)
- #1
Geek Wisdom (With: Genevieve Valentine)(2011)
- #1
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (By: Yoon Ha Lee)(2009) - #2
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2010) - #3
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (By: Nisi Shawl)(2011) - #4
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (By: Alexis Lothian)(2012) - #5
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (By: JoSelle Vanderhooft)(2013) - #6
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (By: Mary Anne Mohanraj)(2015) - #7
The WisCon Chronicles 11 (By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh)(2017) - #8
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2(2008) - #9
Steam-Powered:Lesbian Steampunk Stories(2011) - #10
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk(2012) - #11
Fantastic Erotica: The Best of Circlet Press 2008-2012(2012) - #12
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia(2012) - #13
Clarkesworld: Year Three(2013) - #14
Mothership(2013) - #15
Speculative Fiction 2013(2014) - #16
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue(2014) - #17
Systems Fail(2014) - #18
Futuredaze 2: Reprise(2014) - #19
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014(2014) - #20
Clarkesworld: Year Eight(2016) - #21Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition(2017)
- #22
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017(2017) - #23
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps(2017) - #24
Worlds Seen in Passing(2018) - #25
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves(2018) - #26
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers(2019) - #27
The Best of Uncanny(2019) - #28
Escape Pod(2020) - #29
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror(2023)
About N.K. Jemisin
Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. Her Broken Earth series made her the first African American author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, as well as the first author to win in three consecutive years, and the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin, and a fifth Hugo Award, for Best Graphic Story, in 2022 for Far Sector. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.
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