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USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author Shen Tao immigrated to Canada at a young age, and grew up inspired by both Chinese and Western stories. Her debut novel, The Poet Empress, will be translated into 17 languages.

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The Poet Empress

4.44 avg rating — 15,558 ratings — published 2026 — 20 editions

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“It is true, he has suffered, but if everyone who suffered became monsters, the world would be overrun with them.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

tags: forgiveness, humanity, monster

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“It could be the greatest nation in the world, the most magnificent empire there ever existed. But if it could not keep its own children and fed, was it really something worth fighting to save?”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

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“Or, at the very least, turn me little again.' He wiped his eyes with a sleeve, and stared at the plate of mung bean cakes. 'Little enough that all I wanted to reach for was the banquet table. When all I knew to desire was a sweet cake. And even if everyone punished me, or yelled at me, or hated me, at least back then I didn’t know why. If you can’t turn me into a fish, at least turn me little.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

tags: desire, loss-of-innocence

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2nd Quarter 2026 - Fantasy #1

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (480 pp)

6 votes, 54.5%

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor (368 pp)

2 votes, 18.2%

Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis (432 pp)

1 vote, 9.1%

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (400 pp)

1 vote, 9.1%

The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack (347 pp)

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The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (432 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

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