Nalo Hopkinson Reading Order

34 books (1997–2023)

Start with Black Swan, White Raven, the first of 34 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Black Swan, White Raven 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Silver Birch, Blood Moon 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	Queer Fear II 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mojo 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Girls Who Bite Back 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Reading the Bones 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	So Long Been Dreaming 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Apex Magazine - February 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Walking the Clouds 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	Imaginarium 3 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Sisters of the Revolution 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	Warrior Women 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Imaginarium 4 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	People of Color Destroy Science Fiction! 2016Buy 🇺🇸
25	People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 2017Buy 🇺🇸
26	Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
27	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 11: Trials by Whiteness 2017Buy 🇺🇸
28	Particulates 2018Buy 🇺🇸
29	Current Futures 2019Buy 🇺🇸
30	Edited By 2020Buy 🇺🇸
31	Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021Buy 🇺🇸
32	Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	Trouble the Waters 2022Buy 🇺🇸
34	Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror 2023Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2021–2021)

Start with 2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)(By: Nisi Shawl), the first of 6 books in the Black Stars series.

4 books (2001–2024)

Start with Skin Folk, the first of 4 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Skin Folk 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Under Glass Under Glass 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Falling in Love with Hominids 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions 2024Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2012–2016)

Start with Heiresses of Russ 2012, the first of 5 books in the Heiresses of Russ series.

#	Title
1	Heiresses of Russ 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Heiresses of Russ 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heiresses of Russ 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heiresses of Russ 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Heiresses of Russ 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2019–2020)

Start with The House of WhispersVol. 1(With: Max Fiumara,Bilquis Evely,Kat Howard,Aneke,Sebastian Fiumara,Simon Spurrier,Dan Watters,Dominike Stanton,Tom Fowler) and read in order.

1 book (2012–2012)

32 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel), the first of 32 books in the Outspoken Authors series.

#	Title
1	The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Report from Planet Midnight(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2001–2022)

Start with Something to Hitch Meat To and read in order.

#	Title
1	Something to Hitch Meat To 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Greedy Choke Puppy 2022Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1998–2013)

Start with Brown Girl in the Ring, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Brown Girl in the Ring 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Midnight Robber 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Salt Roads 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	The New Moon's Arms 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blackheart Man 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Chaos 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sister Mine 2013Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2001–2009)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸