Where to Start with R.F. Kuang
- Best entry point → Babel
- Start The Poppy War series → The Poppy War
- What fans keep coming back to → The Dragon Republic
- Highest rated by listeners → From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View #2)
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The Dragon Republic
The Poppy War • Book 2
by R.F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.29 ABR Score (231.2K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (228.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (2.7K)23h 46m listening time • Released 2019 - 2
Babel
by R. F. Kuang
Narrated by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
★ 4.19 ABR Score (497.6K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (491.2K) ★ 4.42 Audible (6.4K)21h 46m listening time • Released 2022The dual narration brings razor-sharp tension to a story about revolution and complicity, making this sprawling historical fantasy feel urgent and intimate at once.
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The Poppy War
The Poppy War • Book 1
by R. F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.02 ABR Score (507.1K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (501.7K) ★ 4.21 Audible (5.4K)19h 27m listening time • Released 2018Emily Woo Zeller's narration captures the rage and devastation of this brutal military fantasy with devastating precision. A 19-hour immersion into magic, war, and moral collapse that doesn't look away.
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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 2
by Elizabeth Schaefer, Mark Oshiro, Rob Hart, Michael Moreci, Mike Chen, Beth Revis, Zoraida Córdova, Kiersten White, Lilliam Rivera, Mackenzi Lee, Amy Ratcliffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Emily Skrutskie, Tracy Deonn, C.B. Lee, Karen Strong, Delilah S. Dawson, Lydia Kang, Adam Christopher, Cavan Scott, R.F. Kuang, Tom Angleberger, S.A. Chakraborty, Seth Dickinson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Hank Green, Michael Kogge, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Anne Toole, Austin Walker, Martha Wells, Django Wexler, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub, Katie Cook, Sarwat Chadda
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dion Graham, Jon Hamm, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sam Witwer, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.93 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.6K)17h 59m listening time • Released 2020Forty writers and an all-star cast of narrators (including Jon Hamm and Sam Witwer) transform Empire into a anthology of revelation, making you hear the galaxy's most pivotal moments through entirely new eyes.
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The Complete Poppy War Trilogy
The Poppy War • Book 1
by R. F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.82 ABR Score (4.6K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.06 Audible (2.0K)66h 29m listening time • Released 2023Emily Woo Zeller's performance elevates this brutal, shamanic military epic into something transcendent—her voice carries the weight of Rin's descent from soldier to god-touched weapon with devastating precision.
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