Author guide
Lauren Beukes Books in Order
Lauren Beukes is a South African author whose work spans speculative fiction, thrillers, urban fantasy, pop-history nonfiction, short fiction, comics, and children's books. Her novels include Moxyland, Zoo City, The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters, Afterland, and Bridge; she has also written the short-fiction collection Slipping, the nonfiction book Maverick, graphic works, and collaborative fiction.
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Lauren Beukes's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Moxyland
The debut novel and an accessible introduction to Beukes's dystopian speculative fiction.
Zoo City
The Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, blending urban fantasy, crime, and South African social commentary.
The Shining Girls
A tightly plotted time-travel thriller and her best-known novel.
Read in order
Books by series
comic-series · completed
Fairest
A DC/Vertigo comic-book series set in the wider Fables universe. Beukes wrote the Hidden Kingdom arc, collected as volume 2.
comic-series · completed
Survivors' Club
A completed Vertigo horror comic series co-created and co-written by Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen, with art by Ryan Kelly and others.
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Book 1 · graphic-novel · 2016
Outside the series
