Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American author of literary fiction novels. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Nguyen was born to refugees from North Vietnam, who fled south in 1954. Following the Fall of Saigon, his family fled Vietnam for the United States. He is a professor at the University of Southern California.

Viet Thanh Nguyen made his debut as a published novelist in 2015 with the novel The Sympathizer. Below is a list of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Sympathizer (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Refugees (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Committed (2020)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Black-Eyed Women (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Picture Books

Chicken of the Sea (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Race and Resistance (2002)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Nothing Ever Dies (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Displaced (With: Aleksandar Hemon) (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
A Man of Two Faces (2023)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Anthologies

Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives(2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Ploughshares Summer 2016 Guest-Edited by Claire Messud & James Wood(2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
One World Two(2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Fight of the Century(2020)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Writer's Library(2020)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

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Viet Thanh Nguyen Synopses: The Sympathizer is a standalone title by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.

Chicken of the Sea is a picture book by Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrations by Thi Bui. A band of intrepid chickens leave behind the boredom of farm life, joining the crew of the pirate ship Pitiless to seek fortune and glory on the high seas. Led by a grizzled captain into the territory of the Dog Knights, they soon learn what it means to be courageous, merciful, and not seasick quite so much of the time.

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