6 must-read lgbt books like Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran

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Daughters of the New Year

By: E.M. Tran

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut novel that moves backwards in time to trace five generations of Vietnamese moth…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. From Here to Home (Too Much, Texas Novel)

By: Marie Bostwick

4.39

Format: 280 pages,

New York Timesbestselling author Marie Bostwick welcomes readers to the quirky, unforgettable town … read more

Similar categories in Marie Bostwick's From Here to Home (Too Much, Texas Novel) book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Walking Through Walls

By: Philip Smith

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Running with Scissors" meets "Bewitched" in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes gr… read more

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3. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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4. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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5. The Chinese Groove

By: Kathryn Ma

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Ma's The Chinese Groove book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Banyan Moon

By: Thao Thai

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more

Similar categories in Thao Thai's Banyan Moon book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

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8. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Fortunes of Jaded Women

By: Carolyn Huynh

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Huynh's The Fortunes of Jaded Women book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's When We Were Sisters book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

By: Bushra Rehman

3.98

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more

Similar categories in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

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12. Good Fortune

By: C.K. Chau

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in conte… read more

Similar categories in C.K. Chau's Good Fortune book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Brendan looked at Jane, Jane looked at Brendan, Elizabeth looked at Darcy, and Darcy stared at the opposite wall, straight at the grease-splattered calendar showing an outdated month."

-C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

"They left their daughters to grow into their hollowed Chinese, plugging English into whatever sprang a leak, stumbling on the wrong sounds, chasing intelligibility--but as Jade insisted, at least the…"

-C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

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13. Familia

By: Lauren E. Rico

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more

Similar categories in Lauren E. Rico's Familia book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

Similar categories in Mai Nguyen's Sunshine Nails book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Chin's Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
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16. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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17. King of the Armadillos

By: Wendy Chin-Tanner

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s Ne… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Chin-Tanner's King of the Armadillos book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Funeral Cryer

By: Wenyan Lu

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s mid-life reawake… read more

Similar categories in Wenyan Lu's The Funeral Cryer book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran

19. Daughters of the New Year

By: E.M. Tran

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut novel that moves backwards in time to trace five generations of Vietnamese moth… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Mother Ocean Father Nation

By: Nishant Batsha

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to l… read more

Similar categories in Nishant Batsha's Mother Ocean Father Nation book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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21. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

By: Marianne Cronin

4.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with … read more

Similar categories in Marianne Cronin's Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love book and E.M. Tran's Daughters of the New Year

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Best fiction books like Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran

Transform Your Habits

From Here to Home (Too Much, Texas Novel)

Marie Bostwick

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Chinese Groove

Kathryn Ma

3.98

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18 must-read fiction books like Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha

Transform Your Habits

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

Transform Your Habits

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Where There Was Fire

John Manuel Arias

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Rouge Street: Three Novellas

Shuang Xuetao

3.84

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