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CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.

Average rating: 3.82 · 110,068 ratings · 16,810 reviews · 57 distinct worksSimilar authors
Interior Chinatown

3.94 avg rating — 70,809 ratings — published 2020 — 30 editions
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How to Live Safely in a Sci...

3.45 avg rating — 19,983 ratings — published 2010 — 47 editions
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Sorry Please Thank You

3.62 avg rating — 2,912 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Third Class Superhero

3.54 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions
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The Only Living Girl on Earth

3.33 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions
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Fable

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Yeoman

3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015
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Hero Absorbs Major Damage

4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
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“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”
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