Yiyun Li Reading Order
1 series · 28 books
Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American author who writes literary fiction entirely in English, drawing on her bicultural background to explore themes of identity, loss, and human connection. Her novels and short story collections have earned major recognition including the PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and PEN/Faulkner Award, establishing her as one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed voices. Working primarily as a novelist rather than through series, Li crafts intricate, psychologically complex standalone works that examine the interior lives of characters navigating displacement and moral ambiguity.
Standalone Novels Series
28 books
Start with A thousand years of good prayers, the first of 28 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A thousand years of good prayers |
| 2 | A thousand years of good prayers |
| 3 | Book of Goose |
| 4 | Cage Went in Search of a Bird |
| 5 | Davy Byrnes stories 2014 |
| 6 | Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life |
| 7 | Een heel leven later |
| 8 | Gold boy, emerald girl |
| 9 | Gold boy, emerald girl |
| 10 | Gold boy, emerald girl |
| 11 | Gouden jongen, meisje van smaragd |
| 12 | Kinder Than Solitude |
| 13 | Kinder than solitude |
| 14 | Las puertas del parai so |
| 15 | Los Buenos Deseos/ the Good Desires |
| 16 | Ngàn năm thiện nguyện |
| 17 | The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook |
| 18 | The Best American Short Stories 2009 |
| 19 | The Real Story Of Ahq And Other Tales Of China The Complete Fiction Of Lu Xun |
| 20 | The Story of Gilgamesh |
| 21 | The Vagrants |
| 22 | The Vagrants |
| 23 | The best American essays 2014 |
| 24 | Un beau jour de printemps |
| 25 | Un millier d'années de bonnes prières |
| 26 | Winter |
| 27 | Work |
| 28 | אלף שנים של תפילות טובות |
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- Yiyun Li has written 28 books across 1 series.