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ⓘ About Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is a popular Chinese-American novelist, who is famous for writing short stories, literature & fiction, and nonfiction novels in the English language. She has won several distinctions and awards for her novels and short stories. Along with writing novels, she is currently working as the editor of a literary magazine called A Public Space based in Brooklyn. Author Li was born on November 04, 1972, in Beijing, China. She was brought up in her native place in Beijing, where her mother worked as a teacher, while her father was a nuclear physicist. Because of the profession of her father, it became easy for her to move to the United States as it was a common talk for people in such a profession to migrate to America.
All Book Series by Yiyun Li
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2009 Co-authored · Lu Xun,魯迅
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Book 2 of 4 · published 2017
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Book 3 of 4 · published 2021 Co-authored · A Public Space
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2025
Me and Carlos
Series opener · book 1 of 8 · published 2020 Anthology · Tom Perrotta
I Would Be Doing This Anyway
Book 7 of 8 · published 2021 Anthology · Jia Tolentino
If You Are Lonely and You Know It
Latest in the series · book 8 of 8 · published 2021
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2024
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Yiyun Li?
Yiyun Li is a popular Chinese-American novelist, who is famous for writing short stories, literature & fiction, and nonfiction novels in the English language. She has won several distinctions and awards for her novels and short stories. Along with writing novels, she is currently working as the editor of a literary magazine called A Public Space based in Brooklyn.
Which Yiyun Li series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Currency series, the earliest of Yiyun Li's multi-book series: it opens with Me and Carlos (2020) and runs to 8 books across 2020–2021, ending with If You Are Lonely and You Know It (2021).
How many books has Yiyun Li written?
Yiyun Li has 29 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2005 and 2026. 8 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Currency series with 8 books — and 21 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Yiyun Li's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Yiyun Li's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Currency (2020–2021, 8 books).
How are Yiyun Li's books organised into series?
This guide splits Yiyun Li's 29 books into 1 named series and 21 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Currency (8 books, 2020–2021).