Amy Tan

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1989
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Joy Luck Club

    This widely acclaimed bestseller spans two countries and two generations, following a group of Chinese women who meet to play mah jong, invest money and tell the secret stories of their lives. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club....

  • Kitchen God's Wife

    With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americaniz...

  • The Hundred Secret Senses

    The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwo...

  • The Moon Lady

    A MAGICAL NIGHT WHEN SECRET WISHES CAN COME TRUE On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ag...

  • Leaving Home

    Leaving home for the first time is a rite of passage. Fifteen of the most respected authors of our time contribute their perspectives to this masterfully crafted anthology. From fear to desire, joy and hope, the mixed emotions that accompany each jou...

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  • The Bonesetter's Daughter

    A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles.Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. ...

  • Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

    A magical fable details the story of how Siamese cats got their dark markings on their faces and tails as Ming Miao tells her kittens the story of their ancestor, Sagwa of China, who tricked the Foolish Magistrate with an ink pot. Reprint....

  • Saving Fish from Drowning

    A provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Ch...



  • I Might Get Somewhere: Oral Histories of Immigration and Migration

    Gathered, recorded, and edited by students at Balboa High School in San Francisco, this anthology of oral histories includes more than 100 stories of immigration to the United States. I Might Get Somewhere includes a foreword by best-selling author A...

  • The Chinese Siamese Cat

  • Rules for Virgins

    In her startlingly sensual story, Rules for Virgins, beloved bestselling author Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter) takes us deep into the illicit world of 1912 Shanghai, where beautiful courtesans mercilessly compete for the...

  • The Valley of Amazement

    New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity -- from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remot...

  • A Kind of Paradise

    Thirteen-year-old Jamie Bunn made a mistake at the end of the school year. A big one. And every kid in her middle school knows all about it. Now she has to spend her summer vacation volunteering at the local library -- as punishment. What a waste of ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amy Tan has published 14 books.

Amy Tan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Kind of Paradise, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, was published in April 1989.

No. Amy Tan does not write books in series.
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