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Lucy Tan

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: What We Were Promised (2018)

ⓘ About Lucy Tan

Lucy Tan is an American author of fiction. She grew up in New Jersey. She has spent much of her life living in Shanghai and New York. Tan attended New York University, which is where she graduated and received her B.A. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated, receiving her M.F.A. and receiving the 2016 August Derleth Prize. Her writing has been published in Ploughshares and the Asia Literary Review. She was the winner of the Emerging Writers Contest in 2015. Lucy Tan first became a published author with the release of her first full length fictional novel, What We Were Promised. It was released in 2018. The story focuses on the story of the Zhen family who decides to pull an inverted version of the American Dream.

All Book Series by Lucy Tan

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What We Were Promised

Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2018

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2018
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Tiger's Mouth book cover

Tiger's Mouth

Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2026

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2026

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Lucy Tan?

Lucy Tan is an American author of fiction. She grew up in New Jersey. She has spent much of her life living in Shanghai and New York.

Which Lucy Tan series should I start with?

Lucy Tan's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is What We Were Promised (2018).

How many books has Lucy Tan written?

Lucy Tan has 2 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2018 and 2026. They all sit in a single category — Standalone Novels — rather than in numbered series.

In what order should Lucy Tan's series be read?

No reading order is needed: none of the 2 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.

How are Lucy Tan's books organised into series?

This guide splits Lucy Tan's 2 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (2 books).