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If You Like Amy Tan...

If you like strong female characters with a sense of adventure such as the women featured in Amy Tan's stories, may we suggest...

Beautiful ruins: a novel by Jess Walter

The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai

Beside a burning sea by John Shors

Daughter's keeper by Ayelet Waldman

The round house by Louise Erdrich

The madonnas of Leningrad: a novel by Debra Dean

The housekeeper and the professor by Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder

Portrait in sepia: a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Shanghai girls: a novel by Lisa See

Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson