A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

A New York Times Editors’ Choice

One of WIRED's Best Books of 2023

A SELF Well-Read Book Club Pick

One of the New York Post's "best new books to read"

One of Bustle's “36 Best New Books Of Spring & Summer 2023”

One of the New York Public Library's "Engrossing Thrillers To Put Into Your Beach Bag This Summer"

Featured in Book Riot’s “25 Best Horror Books of 2023”

One of Powell’s Books “Hot Book Summer” recommendations

One of Katie Couric Media’s “13 Books by AAPI Authors To Read This May and Beyond”

An April LibraryReads Pick

“Her talents…harmonize most seamlessly when she writes about music, managing the near-impossible feat of crafting descriptions of the compositions that are as airy and adroit as the melodies themselves. And she is at her best when she skewers the narcissistic, corrosive version of self-care that can be mistaken for empowerment…The novel is a meditation on vanity, the ways in which the pursuit of physical beauty can betray the other sources of beauty in one’s life, and how horror can lurk beneath the surface of even the most poreless skin.”–Jazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book Review

“Absorbing . . . Natural Beauty starts out frothy, offering an enticing dip into how tech could beautify and perfect our bodies and faces in the near future . . . It quickly veers into subversive horror, turning into a cautionary tale on societal themes we’re currently seeing IRL.”–Vogue

“The promise of self-improvement is darkly seductive. In Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty […] a former pianist working at a biotech-funded wellness store initially thrills at her regimen’s effects (defined eyelids, opalescent skin). By the end, her dismissal of rigid aesthetics is what lingers: ‘That fine line between beauty and ugliness, ripeness and rot, is what keeps an audience listening with held breath.’”—Vanity Fair, “The Pursuit of Beauty Fuels a Dark Streak in Fiction”