Sabaa Tahir

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-20

Sabaa Tahir is an American novelist of Pakistani descent whose parents emigrated from Pakistan to the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States; she was raised in Ridgecrest, California, in the Mojave Desert. She attended UCLA, where she interned at The Washington Post, and subsequently worked there as a copy editor before becoming a full-time author; she has also contributed reviews and essays to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox. She is best known for the An Ember in the Ashes series (2015-2020) and for All My Rage (2022), which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She published Heir, a new series installment, in 2024, and won the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel (Young Adult). Two of her novels were included in Time magazine's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time (2020). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Books

• An Ember in the Ashes (2015) · An Ember in the Ashes Core Canon
• A Torch Against the Night (2016) · An Ember in the Ashes Core Canon
• A Reaper at the Gates (2018) · An Ember in the Ashes Core Canon
• A Sky Beyond the Storm (2020) · An Ember in the Ashes Core Canon
• A Thief Among the Trees (2020) · An Ember in the Ashes Expanded Canon
• A Spark Within the Forge (2022) · An Ember in the Ashes Expanded Canon
• Heir (2024) · An Ember in the Ashes Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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