9 Top adult fiction books like The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Cover of The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

3.86

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o…

"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

If you liked the adult fiction plot in The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel

1. The Magic of Ordinary Days

By: Ann Howard Creel

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought th… read more

Similar categories in Ann Howard Creel's The Magic of Ordinary Days book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I’d closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home…"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"In the past, I would’ve listed things such as common interests, mutual attraction, worldliness, and higher education. My freedom above all else. If I had found love, it would have had to be the kind …"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

"We’d save up a penny or two, bring them down here, and set them on the tracks. When a train comes, it flattens out that penny, leaving it thin as paper and shaped long, like an egg. But it happens so…"

-Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

Cover of Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck

2. Dragon Seed

By: Pearl S. Buck

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the traged… read more

Similar categories in Pearl S. Buck's Dragon Seed book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

3. Thousand Pieces of Gold

By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoy's fa… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Thousand Pieces of Gold book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Daughters of the Dragon

By: William Andrews

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

read more

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5. Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)

By: James Clavell

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggl… read more

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6. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Cover of The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

7. The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

3.86

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

Cover of Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2) by Mark Wightman

8. Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2)

By: Mark Wightman

4.25

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

The much-awaited follow up to Waking the Tiger, shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association… read more

Similar categories in Mark Wightman's Chasing the Dragon: BY NEW BLOOD DAGGER AND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT SHORTLISTED AUTHOR (Betancourt Mystery Series Book 2) book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • historical fiction
Cover of The Elephant Keeper's Daughter by Julia Drosten

9. The Elephant Keeper's Daughter

By: Julia Drosten

4.12

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Lioness of Morocco comes the beguiling novel of a young woman tr… read more

Similar categories in Julia Drosten's The Elephant Keeper's Daughter book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2) by William  Andrews

10. The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2)

By: William Andrews

4.25

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Daughters of the Dragon comes the story of one of the most extraordi… read more

Similar categories in William Andrews's The Dragon Queen (The Dragon #2) book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister

11. The Scent Keeper

By: Erica Bauermeister

3.93

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, present… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's The Scent Keeper book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Salmon always return to the same stream."

-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

"Once you change the scent, you change the memory."

-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

"This city was too big, too fast, for such quiet details."

-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

"Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back."

-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

Cover of Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

12. Whisper Network

By: Chandler Baker

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Whisper Network book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"We have been programed to work with secrets."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

Cover of The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

13. The Secrets We Kept

By: Lara Prescott

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto… read more

Similar categories in Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"And as the years passed, her age always stayed the same, her beauty sealed in amber."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

Cover of The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward

14. The Jetsetters

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, s… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Eyre Ward's The Jetsetters book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood."

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

"Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood …"

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

Cover of The Cactus by Sarah  Haywood

15. The Cactus

By: Sarah Haywood

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Haywood's The Cactus book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"

-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus

Cover of Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) by Denise Mina

16. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

Cover of Still Lives by Maria Hummel

17. Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel

3.26

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Still Lives book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham

18. Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

By: Heather Harpham

4.14

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fat… read more

Similar categories in Heather Harpham's Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • adult
Cover of Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

19. Everything Inside

By: Edwidge Danticat

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron

20. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

21. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

By: Tembi Locke

3.95

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New Y… read more

Similar categories in Tembi Locke's From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home book and Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger

  • romance
"Cooking is about surrender."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

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The Magic of Ordinary Days

Ann Howard Creel

3.90

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Dragon Seed

Pearl S. Buck

5.00

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Thousand Pieces of Gold

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

3.44

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The Night Tiger

Yangsze Choo

3.86

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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

4.13

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Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

Chanel Cleeton

3.93

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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

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The Night Tiger

Yangsze Choo

3.86

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