Karen Bao

1 series 3 books in order

Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring ecologist. She’s three years older than her brother and sixty years younger than her violin. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen. Dove Exiled is her second novel. Visit her at karenbaobooks.com.

Known for: The Dove Chronicles

Series by Karen Bao

The Dove Chronicles

3 books in order · 2015–2017

Dove Arising

2015 · Karen Bao

Suspenseful, intelligent, and hauntingly prescient, this dystopian novel follows a fifteen-year-old as she endures the harsh reality of surviving…
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Dove Exiled

2016 · Karen Bao

The thrilling sequel to Dove Arising, featuring “a brilliant new [young adult] heroine in a world of true science fiction” (Bustle), plunges readers…
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Dove Alight

2017 · Karen Bao

In the epic finale of the Dove Chronicles series, a young woman finds herself thrust into the role of a reluctant leader after a once-peaceful…
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