Book Series Guide

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Lydia Kang is an American author of young adult fiction, adult fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, popular nonfiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completed her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital, and practices internal medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. Her nonfiction includes co-authored medical and scientific histories, while her fiction ranges from speculative YA novels to historical mysteries and Star Wars fiction.

young adult fictionadult fictionhistorical fictionscience fictionpopular nonfictionmedical historypoetry

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Control

The first book in the Control duology and Lydia Kang's debut novel.

Cover of A Beautiful Poison

A Beautiful Poison

A strong entry point for her standalone historical mysteries.

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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The first of her co-authored popular medical-history books.

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Books by series

duology · complete

Control duology

A young adult science-fiction duology about genetically enhanced people living under a regime of genetic purity.

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  1. 1 Cover of Control
    Control

    Book 1 · novel · 2013

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  2. 2 Cover of Catalyst
    Catalyst

    Book 2 · novel · 2015

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shared-universe-series · ongoing

Star Wars: The High Republic

A shared-universe Star Wars publishing series set centuries before the films; Kang's contribution is the Phase II novel Cataclysm.

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    Star Wars: The High Republic: Cataclysm

    Book phase-ii · novel · 2023

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Outside the series

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Novels (10)
  1. Cover of A Beautiful Poison
    A Beautiful Poison

    novel · 2017

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  2. Cover of The November Girl
    The November Girl

    novel · 2017

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  3. Cover of The Impossible Girl
    The Impossible Girl

    novel · 2018

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  4. Cover of Toxic
    Toxic

    novel · 2018

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  5. Cover of Opium and Absinthe
    Opium and Absinthe

    novel · 2020

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  6. Cover of Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

    nonfiction · 2021

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  7. Cover of The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding
    The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

    novel · 2022

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  8. Cover of Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
    Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

    nonfiction · 2025

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  9. Cover of K-Jane
    K-Jane

    novel · 2025

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  10. Cover of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

    nonfiction · 2017

    Amazon ↗