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Great Reads 2025 - Foul Lady Fortune: Readalikes

Read Your Way Through Shanghai (New York Times)
Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city.
What Author Chloe Gong Reads
Chloe Gong shares the books that inspired her as she worked on her first novel.

More by Chloe Gong

Cover of Foul Heart Huntsman

Cover of These Violent Delights

Cover of Our Violent Ends

Cover of Immortal Longings

Cover of Vilest Things

Cover of Last Violent Call

Set in Shanghai

Cover of Feeding Ghosts

Cover of When We Were Orphans

Cover of Shanghai Girls

Cover of The Valley of Amazement

Cover of The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai

Cover of Dragonfly Eyes

Cover of China Rich Girlfriend

Cover of These Violent Delights

Cover of Shanghai Express

Cover of The Mountain

Cover of A Map of Betrayal

Spy Stories

Cover of Code Name Verity

Cover of Polostan

Cover of The Alice Network

Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Cover of Warcross

Cover of Our Woman in Moscow

Cover of Red Sparrow

Cover of The Ministry of Time

Cover of Red, White, Blue

Cover of Under Occupation

Cover of Need to Know

Historical fiction with fantasy elements

Cover of The City of Brass

Cover of The Poppy War

Cover of She Who Became the Sun

Cover of Ring Shout

Cover of Sun of Blood and Ruin

Cover of Gods of Jade and Shadow

Cover of Kindred

Cover of The Diviners

Cover of The Way Back

Cover of Mexican Gothic

Cover of A Marvellous Light

Cover of Ordinary Monsters

Cover of A Darker Shade of Magic

Cover of The Bird King

Shakespeare Retellings

Cover of The Death I Gave Him

Cover of These Violent Delights

Cover of The Gap of Time

Cover of Enter the Body

Cover of Shame the Stars

Cover of Heart or Mind

Cover of Mrs. Gulliver

Cover of Vinegar Girl

Cover of The Great Night

Cover of To Be or Not to Be

Cover of Nutshell

Cover of Warm Bodies

Cover of Hag-Seed

Nonfiction

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Last Updated: Oct 29, 2025 4:26 PM
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