Lauren Beukes Books in Order

This nonfiction book profiles South African women who broke rules, made trouble, and changed the world around them. Beukes brings real lives into focus with pace and color, from activists and artists to outsiders and criminals.

In near-future Cape Town, four young people push against a corporate police state where phones and brands control everything. Their lives collide in a sharp cyberpunk story about power, rebellion, and identities built to be bought and tracked.

Zinzi, a scammer with a sloth on her back and a knack for finding lost things, takes a missing-person case in a magical, dangerous Johannesburg. The search pulls her into celebrity culture, buried guilt, and something much darker.

Briar Rose has been woken by true love's kiss, but nothing gets simpler after that. Ali Baba, the Snow Queen, goblin trouble, and old fairy curses turn Sleeping Beauty's comeback into a sly Fables adventure.

Framed by the Magic Mirror, this original graphic novel gathers short tales about the women of Fabletown. It works like a storybook with teeth, moving between glamour, gossip, danger, and old grudges.

Rapunzel has spent years living by strict routines in Fabletown, hiding the full strangeness of her story. When news of her lost children reaches her, she heads to Japan and into a dangerous mystery from her past.

A time-traveling killer stalks brilliant women across decades of Chicago, until one victim survives. Kirby refuses to stay in that role and starts hunting him back, turning the novel into a tense, shape-shifting thriller.

Detroit detective Gabriella Versado investigates a body fused from boy and deer, while her daughter and a desperate journalist drift toward the same nightmare. It starts as a murder case and keeps widening into something stranger and crueler.

After an attempt on Snow White's life, Cinderella is pulled back into spy work to track a conspiracy tied to her famous midnight escape. It's a fairy-tale thriller with hidden enemies, old magic, and personal stakes.

When Nalayani's village is attacked, she seeks help from the Maharaja and uncovers a secret with huge consequences for the wider Fables world. The book mixes quest fantasy, curses, and royal intrigue.

This opening anthology issue serves up weird, dark, and often violent takes on sport from a range of comics creators. Expect the mood to swing from funny to unsettling, with the rules of the game changing fast.

The nonhuman residents of the Farm are tired of being stuck out of sight while human-looking Fables take center stage. Reynard's new glamour sparks envy, schemes, and a restless little rebellion.

A collection of stories, essays, and other pieces that moves from Johannesburg streets to distant planets and haunted corners. Beukes mixes satire, horror, science fiction, and sharp social observation in work that rarely sits still.

Six adults who survived separate supernatural terrors as children discover that the occult events of 1987 may be starting again. This horror comic plays like the aftermath of several lost eighties movies crashing into one another.

In a near-future Cape Town, actor and sex worker Nats takes a job voicing lab-grown sex dolls. What looks like easy money turns into a disturbing story about loneliness, misogyny, and the dangers of being made visible online.

Three years after a plague kills almost all men, Cole is fleeing America with her twelve-year-old son, one of the last boys left. Disguised on the road and hunted by family and fanatics, they are trying to reach home alive.

After her mother's death, Bridge finds the strange object that once fueled the older woman's obsession with alternate realities. Crossing into other worlds may reveal the truth, but other people are hunting the same power.