The Joy Luck Club
American novelist, born 1952.
The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel in stories by Amy Tan. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1989.
In family saga
On 2 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Amy Tan
- First published
- 1989
- Length
- 384 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1989
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Migration and identity, Feminist
Is The Joy Luck Club worth reading?
2 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it: the National Book Award for Fiction and The Great American Read (PBS).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1989) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Joy Luck Club
The edition we link to is the Vintage paperback (1991), 384 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage (paperback, 1991)
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780749399573
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Joy Luck Club
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 22% of the points available on prize lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work