The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play…
Want to ReadIf you liked the fiction plot in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Pachinko
By: Min Jin Lee
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealth… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A woman’s lot is to suffer."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"No one is clean. Living makes you dirty."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Life makes you pay...everybody pays something"-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
By: Arthur Golden
4.34
Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless auth… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- classics
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- china
6. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
By: Lisa See
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Pearl and May are sisters, living carefree lives in Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. But when Japanese … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lisa See's Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- china
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By: Betty Smith
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty S… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
8. The Secret Life of Bees
By: Sue Monk Kidd
4.22
Format: 224 pages,
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Beestells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
9. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
By: Pearl S. Buck
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
10. The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
By: Rebecca Wells
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed i… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
12. The Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
13. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Toni Morrison's Beloved book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
14. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- historical
- china
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
16. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
18. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
19. Crying in H Mart
By: Michelle Zauner
4.26
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- contemporary
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
20. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By: Lisa See
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- china
"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
21. The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and … read more
Want to Read $ 10.92Similar categories in Alice Walker's The Color Purple book and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
