Lavie Tidhar books

Lavie Tidhar is a World Fantasy Award-winning author known for genre-bending novels like Osama, A Man Lies Dreaming, and Central Station, as well as extensive work as an editor and anthologist.

Anthologies

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The Blackest Death: Volume II 2005 Buy
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy 2006 Buy
Aegri Somnia 2006 Buy
Ruins Extraterrestrial 2007 Buy
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad 2008 Buy
Best New Fantasy 2 2009 Buy
Hatter Bones 2009 Buy
Interfictions 2 2009 Buy
Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction 2010 Buy
Grave Conditions 2010 Buy
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 2011 Buy
Bewere the Night 2011 Buy
Apex Magazine - August 2011 2011 Buy
Daily Science Fiction Stories of August 2011 2011 Buy
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 2011 Buy
Steampunk III 2012 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012 Buy
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke 2012 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 2012 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 2012 Buy
Fungi 2012 Buy
Unidentified Funny Objects 2012 Buy
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction 2013 Buy
Clarkesworld: Year Three 2013 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 2013 Buy
The Best British Fantasy 2013 2013 Buy
Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013 Buy
Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 2013 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 2013 Buy
Best New SF 26 2013 Buy
We See a Different Frontier 2013 Buy
Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31 2013 Buy
The Book of Apex: Volume 4 2013 Buy
The End of the Road 2013 Buy
Plan B - Volume IV 2014 Buy
Clarkesworld: Year Six 2014 Buy
The Apex Book of World SF 3 2014 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 2014 Buy
The Apex Book of World SF 5 2015 Buy
Jews vs Aliens 2015 Buy
Jews Vs Zombies 2015 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015 Buy
The Apex Book of World SF 4 2015 Buy
Funny Science Fiction 2015 Buy
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two 2017 Buy
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology 2017 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 2017 Buy
Robots vs. Fairies 2018 Buy
The Book Of Swords: Part 2 2018 Buy
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories 2018 Buy
Bag Man 2019 Buy
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories 2019 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition 2019 Buy
Invisible Blood 2019 Buy
The Best of British Fantasy 2019 2020 Buy
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition 2021 Buy
Uncanny Magazine, Issue 53, July/August 2023 2023 Buy
Ink and Daggers 2023 Buy
Reports from the Deep End 2023 Buy
Best of British Science Fiction 2023 2024 Buy
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Fifth Annual Collection 2024 Buy
The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms 2025 Buy
Bourbon Penn 37 2025 Buy
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Sixth Annual Collection 2025 Buy

Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet Reading Order

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By Force Alone 2020 Buy
The Hood 2021 Buy

Central Station Reading Order

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Central Station 2016 Buy
Neom 2022 Buy

Collections

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HebrewPunk 2007 Buy

Gorel of Goliris Reading Order

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Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God 2011 Buy
Black Gods Kiss 2014 Buy

Graphic Novels

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Going to the Moon 2012 Buy
Woman of Mystery 2015 Buy

Judge Dee Reading Order

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I celebri casi del giudice Dee 1949 N/A
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law 2020 Buy
The Chinese Maze Murders 1951 N/A
Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels 2021 Buy
Bí Mật Quả Chuông 1958 N/A
Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre 2021 Buy
Золото будды 1959 N/A
Seven Vampires 2022 Buy
Kiinalaiset järvimurhat 1960 N/A
Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript 2022 Buy
Kiinalaiset naulamurhat 1961 N/A
Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal 2024 Buy
Kummitusluostari 1961 N/A
The Red Pavilion 1961 N/A
Lacquer Screen 1962 N/A
Keisarin helmi 1963 N/A
Apina ja tiikeri 1965 N/A
The Willow Pattern 1965 N/A
Murder in Canton 1966 N/A
The Phantom of the Temple: A Judge Dee Mystery 1966 N/A
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories 1967 N/A
Necklace and Calabash 1967 N/A
Poets and Murder 1968 N/A

Maror Reading Order

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Maror 2022 N/A
Golgotha 2025 Buy

Non-Fiction

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Art and War 2016 Buy
Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing 2009 N/A

Short Stories/Novellas

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An Occupation of Angels 2006 Buy
Jesus and the Eightfold Path 2010 Buy
Cloud Permutations 2010 Buy
Martian Sands 2013 Buy
Dragonkin 2013 Buy
Selfies 2014 Buy
Terminal 2016 Buy
The Old Dispensation 2017 Buy
Yiwu 2018 Buy
The Vanishing Kind 2018 Buy
Bag Man 2019 Buy
In Xanadu 2019 Buy

Standalone Novels

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The Tel Aviv Dossier 2009 Buy
Osama 2011 Buy
The Violent Century 2013 Buy
A Man Lies Dreaming 2014 Buy
Candy 2018 Buy
Unholy Land 2018 Buy
New Atlantis 2020 Buy
The Candy Mafia 2020 Buy
The Big Blind 2020 Buy
The Lunacy Commission 2021 Buy
The Escapement 2021 Buy
The Circumference of the World 2023 Buy
Adama 2023 Buy
The Three Coffin Problem 2026 Buy

The Apex Book of World SF Reading Order

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The Apex Book of World SF 2009 Buy
The Apex Book of World SF 2 2012 Buy

The Bookman Histories Reading Order

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The Bookman 2010 Buy
Camera Obscura 2010 Buy
The Great Game 2012 Buy
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution 2012 N/A

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Reading Order

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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 2009 N/A
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 2010 N/A
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 2013 N/A
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024 Buy

Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born author who has lived in South Africa, Laos, Vanuatu, and the UK. His fiction is known for blending genres freely, mixing science fiction with noir, literary fiction with pulp adventure, and alternative history with surrealism. His novel Osama won the World Fantasy Award in 2012, and Central Station won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Tidhar’s output is prolific and wide-ranging. Beyond his novels, he has edited The Apex Book of World SF anthologies, which helped bring international science fiction to English-language readers. He has also edited multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and contributed short fiction to dozens of anthologies. His Judge Dee series, drawing on the classic Chinese detective, is one of his longest-running projects.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Lavie Tidhar written?

Lavie Tidhar has written 152 books across fourteen series.

What was Lavie Tidhar's first book?

Lavie Tidhar’s first book is I celebri casi del giudice Dee, published in 1949.

What awards has Lavie Tidhar won?

Tidhar won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Osama in 2012. He has also won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Central Station, and the British Fantasy Award. His work has been nominated for numerous other awards including the Hugo and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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