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N. K. Jemisin is an American author and blogger, born in 1972, and based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from Tulane University and her Masters of Education from the University of Maryland College Park. Her work includes numerous short stories, a novella, a triptych, The Inheritance trilogy, Dreamblood series, and The Broken Earth trilogy. The Fifth Season is a book in The Inheritance trilogy for which she won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Her other awards include Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice, Fantasy (for The Shadowed Sun); Sense of Gender Award, 2011 (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Japanese version); Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice, Fantasy (for The Broken Kingdoms); and the Locus Award, 2010 (First Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms). She won the 2017 Nebula Award and the 2018 Hugo Award, Best Novel category for The Stone Sky. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Fifth Season… (more)
The Fifth Season 7,319 copies, 340 reviews
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms 4,003 copies, 279 reviews
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The Stone Sky 3,404 copies, 153 reviews
The City We Became 2,770 copies, 99 reviews
The Broken Kingdoms 1,712 copies, 85 reviews
The Killing Moon 1,651 copies, 92 reviews
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? 1,320 copies, 43 reviews
The Kingdom of Gods 1,303 copies, 75 reviews
The Inheritance Trilogy 870 copies, 10 reviews
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The World We Make 516 copies, 17 reviews
Emergency Skin 438 copies, 41 reviews
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Far Sector 150 copies, 5 reviews
The City Born Great {short story} 137 copies, 17 reviews
Far Sector (2019-) #1 (Author) 35 copies, 4 reviews
The Narcomancer 14 copies, 1 review
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Systems Fail 9 copies, 1 review
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