Amy Tan

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1989
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Opposite of Fate

  • 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 Chinese Siamese Cat

  • 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...

  • Saving Fish from Drowning

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles and The Joy Luck Club comes “a rollicking, adventure-filled story . . . packed [with] the human capacity for love” (USA Today).“Amy Tan has created an almost magical ...

  • 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....

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  • The Bonesetter's Daughter

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond” (People) from the renowned author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles “No one writes about mothers and daughters wi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kitchen God's Wife

    "Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you."  -- The New York Times Book ReviewWinnie and Helen have kept each other's worst...

  • 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....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amy Tan has published 15 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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