Anchee Min Books in Order
Anchee Min has written 9 books, published between 1993 and 2015. The first book is Red Azalea (1993) and the newest is Chinese Propaganda Posters (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1993–2015
- Total pages
- 2,995 across 9 books
- Reading time
- 50–75 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,995 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Anchee Min writes memoir and historical fiction rooted in China. Born on 14 January 1957, Min is a Chinese-American author who lives between San Francisco and Shanghai. The catalogued run of 9 books opens with the memoir Red Azalea (1993) and closes with Chinese Propaganda Posters (2015), taking in Katherine (1995), Becoming Madame Mao (2000), Wild Ginger (2001), Empress Orchid (2003), The Last Empress (2007), Pearl of China (2009) and a second memoir, The Cooked Seed (2013). The fiction puts strong women at its centre, among them Jiang Qing, wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, and the Empress Dowager Cixi, the last empress to rule China.
How many Anchee Min books are there?
Anchee Min has 9 books, released between 1993 and 2015. 2 of them belong to the Empress Orchid series.
Anchee Min Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Anchee Min books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Red Azalea1993 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/419933061/4
- 2Katherine1995 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/419952241/4
- 3Becoming Madame Mao2000 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/420003061/4
- 4Wild Ginger2001 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420012401/4
- 520033521/4
- 620073201/4
- 7Pearl of China2009 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/420092781/4
- 8The Cooked Seed: A Memoir2013 · 361 pages · confirmed 1/420133611/4
- 9Chinese Propaganda Posters2015 · 608 pages · confirmed 1/420156081/4
Anchee Min books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Empress Orchid in order
2 booksStandalone books
7 books7 Anchee Min titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Anchee Min books in order?
You only need to read Anchee Min books in order within the Empress Orchid series, which holds 2 of the 9 Anchee Min books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Anchee Min
Start with Red Azalea (1993), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Anchee Min book?
Chinese Propaganda Posters (2015) is the newest Anchee Min book released so far.
Is there a new Anchee Min book coming?
No next Anchee Min book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Anchee Min at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Anchee Min title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Anchee Min books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,995 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 306 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Anchee Min books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2000s.
What the Anchee Min books are about
All 9 Anchee Min books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 4 of 9 books
- China 3 of 9 books
- Historical fiction 3 of 9 books
- Americans 2 of 9 books
- Biography 2 of 9 books
- Friendship 2 of 9 books
- Young women 2 of 9 books