Author guide
Kathe Koja Books in Order
Kathe Koja is an American author whose fiction spans horror, speculative and cyberpunk fiction, historical fiction, weird fiction, and young adult literature. Her work includes the Under the Poppy and Dark Factory trilogies, the novels The Cipher, Skin, Christopher Wild, and Catherine the Ghost, and the short-story collections Extremities and Velocities: Stories.
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The Cipher
Her landmark debut novel and a representative entry point to her early horror and speculative fiction.
Straydog
An accessible award-winning young adult novel.
Under the Poppy
The opening volume of her completed historical trilogy.
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Books by series
trilogy · complete
Under the Poppy
A completed historical fiction trilogy centered on puppeteers, performers, desire, and power in nineteenth-century Europe.
trilogy · complete
Dark Factory
A completed immersive speculative fiction trilogy about art, technology, performance, celebrity, and cultural collapse.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (14)
- The CipherAmazon ↗
novel · 1991
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Bad BrainsAmazon ↗novel · 1992
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SkinAmazon ↗novel · 1993
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Strange AngelsAmazon ↗novel · 1994
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KinkAmazon ↗novel · 1996
- StraydogAmazon ↗
young-adult-novel · 2002
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Buddha BoyAmazon ↗young-adult-novel · 2003
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The Blue MirrorAmazon ↗young-adult-novel · 2004
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TalkAmazon ↗young-adult-novel · 2005
- Going UnderAmazon ↗
young-adult-novel · 2006
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Kissing the BeeAmazon ↗young-adult-novel · 2007
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HeadlongAmazon ↗young-adult-novel · 2008
- Christopher WildAmazon ↗
novel · 2017
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Catherine the GhostAmazon ↗novel · 2024
