🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo is a published American author. She specializes in genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Vo was born in the central area of the state of Illinois. She enjoys going through corn mazes and has a respect for them along with scarecrows and huge floods. She today resides on Lake Michigan on the shore, a place that is not so much described by the author as a lake as more an ‘inland sea’. Vo’s fiction has appeared everywhere in quite a few magazines, from Expanded Horizons to Fireside, PodCastle, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Icarus Magazine, and Crossed Genres. She enjoys stories that are all about being on the edge or about things that fall through cracks.
All Book Series by Nghi Vo
Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2023
The Six Deaths of the Saint
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 2022 Anthology · Alix E. Harrow
The Candles Are Burning
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2022 Anthology · Veronica G. Henry
Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0 Book One
Series opener · book 1 of 9 · published 2013
Neither Witch nor Fairy (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History)
Book 4 of 9 · published 2014
Wilde Stories 2014: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2014
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Nghi Vo?
Nghi Vo is a published American author. She specializes in genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Vo was born in the central area of the state of Illinois.
Which Nghi Vo series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Singing Hills Cycle series, the earliest of Nghi Vo's multi-book series: it opens with The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020) and runs to 7 books across 2020–2026, ending with A Long and Speaking Silence (2026). Nghi Vo's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Nghi Vo written?
Nghi Vo has 31 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2013 and 2026. 16 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being The Singing Hills Cycle series with 7 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Nghi Vo's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Nghi Vo's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Singing Hills Cycle (2020–2026, 7 books), The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021–2025, 2 books) and Into Shadow (2022, 7 books).
How are Nghi Vo's books organised into series?
This guide splits Nghi Vo's 31 books into 3 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Singing Hills Cycle (7 books, 2020–2026); Into Shadow (7 books, 2022); The Chosen and the Beautiful (2 books, 2021–2025).