Lydia Kang

Lydia Kang is an American published author of fiction. She attended Columbia University as well as New York University School of Medicine. She would go on to work a residency and a chief residency, completing both in New York City at Bellevue Hospital.

The best place to start is the Control series, the earliest of Lydia Kang's multi-book series: it opens with Control (2013) and runs to 2 books across 2013–2015, ending with Catalyst (2015).

Lydia Kang has 80 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2012 and 2026. 63 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Control series with 2 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Lydia Kang's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Control (2013–2015, 2 books) and A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (2017, 1 book).

This guide splits Lydia Kang's 80 books into 3 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Control (2 books, 2013–2015); A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (1 book, 2017); Star Wars: The High Republic (60 books, 2021–2026).