Order of Nalo Hopkinson Books
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican author best known for writing speculative fiction. She is the author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, and The New Moon’s Arms as well as numerous short stories.
Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica before he family moved to Guyana, Trinidad, and finally Canada. Writing was a big part of her upbringing as her mother was a librarian technician and her father was a poet and actor. She read great authors from early on in her formative years and she was heavily influenced by folk and fairy tales. In her own career, she would go on to become a Professor of Creative Writing at University of California Riverside.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Brown Girl in the Ring | (1998) |    |
| Midnight Robber | (2000) | |
| The Salt Roads | (2004) | |
| The New Moon's Arms | (2007) | |
| The Chaos | (2012) | |
| Sister Mine | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Collections
| Under Glass Under Glass | (2001) | |
| Skin Folk | (2001) | |
| Falling in Love with Hominids | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | |
Publication Order of Black Stars Books
| The Visit | (2021) | |
| These Alien Skies | (2021) | |
| We Travel the Spaceways | (2021) | |
| 2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) | (2021) | |
| The Black Pages | (2021) | |
| Clap Back | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Something to Hitch Meat To | (2001) | |
Publication Order of Imaginarium Books
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| Imaginarium 2011: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | (2011) | |
| Imaginarium 5: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
| The Human Front | (2001) | |
| The Left Left Behind | (2009) | |
| Lucky Strike | (2009) | |
| The Underbelly | (2010) | |
| Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | |
| The Wild Girls | (2011) | |
| Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | |
| The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | |
| Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | |
| Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | |
| The Science of Herself | (2013) | |
| Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | |
| New Taboos | (2013) | |
| Raising Hell | (2014) | |
| My Life, My Body | (2015) | |
| Gypsy | (2015) | |
| Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | |
| Fire. | (2017) | |
| Totalitopia | (2017) | |
| The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | |
| Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | |
| The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | |
| A City Made of Words | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Year's Best Fantasy Books
| Year's Best Fantasy | (2001) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy | (2001) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 2 | (2002) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 3 | (2003) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 4 | (2004) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 6 | (2006) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 7 | (2007) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 8 | (2008) | |
| Year's Best Fantasy 9 | (2009) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Black Swan, White Raven | (1997) | |
| Silver Birch, Blood Moon | (1999) | |
| Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | (2000) | |
| Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root | (2000) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | |
| Queer Fear II | (2002) | |
| Mojo | (2003) | |
| Dark Matter: Reading the Bones | (2004) | |
| So Long Been Dreaming | (2004) | |
| Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love | (2006) | |
| Apex Magazine - February 2011 | (2011) | |
| Walking the Clouds | (2012) | |
| After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia | (2012) | |
| The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | |
| Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales | (2014) | |
| Imaginarium 4 | (2014) | |
| Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing | (2015) | |
| Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women | (2015) | |
| Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology | (2015) | |
| Warrior Women | (2015) | |
| The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 11: Trials by Whiteness | (2017) | |
| People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination | (2017) | |
| Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition | (2017) | |
| Particulates | (2018) | |
| Edited By | (2020) | |
| Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century | (2021) | |
| Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy | (2021) | |
| Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination | (2022) | |
If You Like Nalo Hopkinson Books, You’ll Love…
Brown Girl in the Ring was Hopkinson’s debut novel about a young bargaining with the gods to save her city. The story takes place in a city where the rich and privileged have fled the city and left it crumble. To survive, the people of the inner city have had to return to the old ways like farming and herb lore. However, the rich now find themselves in need of bodies and start to prey on the helpless still in the city. A young woman decides to do something about it and opens herself up to a world of ancient truths and eternal powers.
Nalo also wrote Sister Mine that explores the relationship between two sisters. The girls, Makeda and Abby, were born as conjoined twins which left them each unique. Abby was the one born with the magic while Makeda was merely mortal. This leaves Makeda on the outside looking in on the magical family. As Abby’s powers start to develop, Makeda makes the decision to go and live in the real world among the rest of the mortals. However, when their magical father goes missing Makeda will reunite with her sister to try and save him.