There are 6 books in the The Singing Hills Cycle series. The newest book is A Mouthful of Dust which came out in 2025.

1
The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award!
Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!
A Hugo Award-Winning Series!

A 2021 Locus Award Finalist
A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist

"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable…

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2
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

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From Locus and Ignyte finalist, Crawford Award winner, and bestselling author Nghi Vo comes the second installment in a Hugo Award-winning series

"A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complexity and layers of storytelling and celebrates the wonder of queer love. I could read about Chih recording tales…

3
Into the Riverlands

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Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...

"A delicious bonbon of a novella about stories and their unreliable narrators, who wink at their listeners (or readers), fully expecting us to catch on."―The Wall Street Journal

"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we…

4
Mammoths at the Gates

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The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series!

"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."―NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune

"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."―Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time…

5
The Brides of High Hill

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The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad…

6
A Mouthful of Dust

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Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle.

"Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High Hill

Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a…