The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on the game and four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable.

The 371st greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 8th on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning)
  2. - 25th on The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (Entertainment Weekly)
  3. - 65th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
  4. - 100th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
  5. - The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993 (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
  6. - The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (Book)
  7. - The Great American Read (PBS)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 1205096 $155.88 $0.01 1994
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 2106658 $9.63 $0.01
Joy Luck Club Audio CD 3505954 $800.00 $34.97
Joy Luck Club-O.M. Mass Market Paperback 13024404 $12.95 $0.31 1989
The Joy Luck Club 1st (first) edition Text Only Hardcover 1622089 $18.60 $2.50
The Joy Luck Club Hardcover 76984 $14.95 $1.60 1989
By Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club (First Edition) Hardcover 562805 $14.85 $3.48
The Joy Luck Club (Chinese Edition) Hardcover 550555 $15.99 2016
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 2557558 $44.34 $0.01 2005
By Amy Tan - Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club/the Kitchen God's Wife (Boxed) (1905-06-29) [Paperback] Paperback 1746966 $122.58 $107.95 1905
Joy Luck Club Signed Hardback Hardcover 5426157 $50.01 1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Paperback 735806 $27.82 $6.25 1000
The Joy Luck Club Mass Market Paperback 99654 $3.25 $0.01 1990
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Paperback 181512 $1.50 $0.01 1991
The Joy Luck Club Audio CD 376125 $25.59 $15.44 2008
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 12718506 $12.00 2002
Joy Luck Club, The (MAXNotes Literature Guides) Paperback 3296827 $3.50 $3.50 1996
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 975464 $7.00 $0.01 1991
The Joy Luck Club (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) Paperback 2686526 $134.02 $0.32
El Club de la Buena Estrella / The Joy Luck Club (Spanish Edition) Paperback 2598697 $93.68 $5.70 2007
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 672007 $8.44 $1.31 2006
The Joy Luck Club Hardcover 2415980 $15.32 $13.99 2006
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel (Penguin Drop Caps) Hardcover 51805 $18.88 $14.48 2014
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 2833962 $39.99 $0.01
(Joy Luck Club (Penguin Drop Caps)) [By: Amy Tan] [May, 2014] Hardcover 2753025 $43.93 $49.91 2014
The Joy Luck Club (Cambridge Literature) Paperback 1049501 $8.32 $1.18 1996
The Joy Luck Club Mass Market Paperback 1569476 $13.04 $2.35
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 2461643 $91.74 $0.01
The Joy Luck Club Hardcover 1579969 $16.83 $0.92 1989
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel (Penguin Orange Collection) Paperback 295022 $13.16 2016
El Club De La Buena Estrella / The Joy Luck Club (Spanish Edition) Paperback 5101625 $27.52 $22.19 2007
The Joy Luck Club Hardcover 204795 $15.73 $2.48
The Joy Luck Club: 2500 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT) Paperback 6387105 $18.00 $0.75 2002
The Joy Luck Club - Multiple Critical Perspectives Paperback 4416349 $19.99 2009
ε–œη¦δΌš Paperback 6319132 $16.99 $28.00 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Chinese Edition) Paperback 1477290 $5.80 $24.23 2018
El Club De La Buena Estrella / The Joy Luck Club (Spanish Edition) Paperback 5000785 $95.89 $34.99 2002
The Joy Luck Club Kindle Edition 6619 $9.44 2006
The Joy Luck Club (Barnes and Noble Reader's Companion) (Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion) Paperback 1623690 $9.99 $3.45 2003
The Joy Luck Club Paperback 2352036 $15.56 $8.33 2009
Spark Notes The Joy Luck Club Paperback 847764 $16.00 $2.23 2002
Oxford Bookworms Library: The Joy Luck Club: Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6) Paperback 609584 $4.99 $2.37 2008
El Club de La Buena Estrella (Spanish Edition) Paperback 3823707 $8.26
[The Joy Luck Club] (By: Amy Tan) [published: February, 2012] Paperback 1176816 $61.77 $11.99 2012
The Joy Luck Club Audio CD 2451713 $21.95 $10.03 2006
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Paperback 2743 $6.08 $0.95 2006
Joy Luck Club: Novel-Ties Study Guide Paperback 4176706 $17.23 $4.95 2000