Books like…

Books Like The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan · about this book

Loved The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan? If its mother and daughter, multiple pov and multigenerational family hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with And the Mountains Echoed, Black Cake and Pachinko. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The Joy Luck Club: Mother and Daughter · Multiple POV · Multigenerational Family · Female Lead · Cultural Identity

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   And the Mountains Echoed

   Khaled Hosseini

   Reunited Family · Multigenerational Family · Estranged Family · Immigration · Nonlinear Narrative

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   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Multigenerational Family · Estranged Family · Cultural Identity · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Multigenerational Family · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Belonging

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4. 

   Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

   Rebecca Wells

   Mother and Daughter · Women's Fiction · Female Friendship · Family Secrets · Multigenerational Family

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5. 

   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Multigenerational Family · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Family Secrets

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   On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

   Ocean Vuong

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Domestic Abuse · Nonlinear Narrative

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   The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

   Nadia Hashimi

   Women's Fiction · Arranged Marriage · Domestic Abuse · Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction

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8. 

   Malas

   Marcela Fuentes

   Multigenerational Family · Cultural Identity · Family Secrets · Literary Fiction · Female Friendship

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   Sabrina & Corina

   Kali Fajardo-Anstine

   Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Belonging · Multigenerational Family · Character-Driven

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10. 

    The Nightingale

    Kristin Hannah

    Women's Fiction · Estranged Family · Tragic · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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11. 

    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Lyrical Prose

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12. 

    The Missing Sister

    Lucinda Riley

    Reunited Family · Women's Fiction · Multigenerational Family · Family Secrets · Historical Fiction

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13. 

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Frame Story · Bittersweet · Domestic Abuse · Family Secrets · Character-Driven

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14. 

    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Multigenerational Family · Bittersweet · Family Secrets

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15. 

    The German Wife

    Kelly Rimmer

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Belonging · Tragic · Emotional

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16. 

    The Seven Daughters of Dupree

    Nikesha Elise Williams

    Multigenerational Family · Mother and Daughter · Family Secrets · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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17. 

    Spinning Silver

    Naomi Novik

    Arranged Marriage · Domestic Abuse · Character-Driven · Multiple POV · Lyrical Prose

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18. 

    Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Multigenerational Family · Nonlinear Narrative · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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19. 

    All the Broken Places

    John Boyne

    Domestic Abuse · Tragic · Family Secrets · Mother and Daughter · Literary Fiction

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20. 

    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    James McBride

    Immigration · Ensemble Cast · Belonging · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity

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