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Readers who finished Beijing Doll by Chun Sue and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Biographical, Coming of Age, and Women.

Biographical Coming of Age Women Fiction

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Beijing Doll.

Three Words for Goodbye A Novel — Hazel Gaynor

Three Words for Goodbye A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Anon Pls A Novel — DeuxMoi

Anon Pls A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Follow Me to Africa A Novel — Penny Haw

Follow Me to Africa A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

By Her Own Design A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register — Piper Huguley

By Her Own Design A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Lost in the Spanish Quarter A Novel — Heddi Goodrich

Lost in the Spanish Quarter A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Leaving Cold Sassy The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree — Olive Ann Burns

Leaving Cold Sassy The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Once Upon a Wardrobe — Patti Callahan

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Inseparable A Novel — Simone de Beauvoir

Inseparable A Novel

Simone De Beauvoir

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Vivaldi’s Virgins A Novel — Barbara Quick

Vivaldi’s Virgins A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Inseparable A Never-before-published Novel — Simone de Beauvoir

Inseparable A Never-before-published Novel

Simone De Beauvoir

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

The Last Queen A Novel of Courage and Resistance — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Last Queen A Novel of Courage and Resistance

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

The Romanov Brides A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters — Clare McHugh

The Romanov Brides A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Little Miseries This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel — Kimberly Fakih

Little Miseries This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Toyi Elizabeth — Kamryn Adams

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead

Maggie Shipstead

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Little Women — Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

When We Were Young & Brave — Hazel Gaynor

When We Were Young & Brave

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

Freshwater — Akwaeke Emezi

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

White Elephant A Novel — Mako Idemitsu

White Elephant A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

And Yet, You Still Chose Me Inspired by the True Story of Kimberly Ray — Kimberly Ray with Sharon Chinn

And Yet, You Still Chose Me Inspired by the True Story of Kimberly Ray

Kimberly Ray with Sharon Chinn

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

The Edible Woman — Margaret Atwood

The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age • Women

In the Shadow of the Banyan A Novel — Vaddey Ratner

In the Shadow of the Banyan A Novel

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age

Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age

A Piece of the World — Christina Baker Kline

A Piece of the World

Christina Baker Kline

Themes: Biographical • Coming of Age

If Beijing Doll by Chun Sue is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Biographical, Coming of Age, Women and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Hazel Gaynor, Deuxmoi, Penny Haw, Piper Huguley, and others.

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