Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King Rat | 1998 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 2 | Un Lun Dun | 2007 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 3 | The City & the City | 2009 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 4 | Kraken | 2010 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 5 | Embassytown | 2011 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 6 | Railsea | 2012 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 7 | This Census-Taker | 2016 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 8 | The Last Days of New Paris | 2016 | China Mieville | Buy |
| 9 | The Book of Elsewhere | 2024 | China Mieville | Buy |
China Mieville’s standalone novels span his full career and cover a remarkable range of settings and genres. King Rat (1998), his debut, is a dark urban fantasy set in London’s underground. Un Lun Dun (2007) is a children’s novel about an alternate London, while The City & the City (2009) is a noir detective story set in two cities that occupy the same physical space but whose citizens are trained to “unsee” each other.
Later standalones include Kraken (2010), a comic thriller about a stolen giant squid, Embassytown (2011), a science fiction novel about alien language, and Railsea (2012), a young adult adventure on a world crisscrossed by rails. This Census-Taker (2016) and The Last Days of New Paris (2016) are shorter, more experimental works. His most recent novel, The Book of Elsewhere (2024), was co-created with Keanu Reeves.