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Jamie Ford Books in Order

Jamie Ford has written 4 books, published between 2009 and 2022. The first book is Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) and the newest is The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
4
Published
2009–2022
Pages on record
690 in 2 of 4 books
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Jamie Ford is an American novelist with four books published between 2009 and 2022. The debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009), spent 130 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and took the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in adult fiction. Songs of Willow Frost (2013) came next, then Love and Other Consolation Prizes (2017) and The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (2022). Chinese American and Japanese American lives, the wartime relocation of 1942 to 1945, orphans, grief and prejudice are the recurring subjects. No new title has appeared since 2022.

Before writing full time, Ford worked in advertising and design.

How many Jamie Ford books are there?

Jamie Ford has 4 books, released between 2009 and 2022.

Jamie Ford Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 4 Jamie Ford 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.

  1. Cover of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (2009)
  2. Cover of Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford (2013)
  3. Cover of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (2022)
  1. 1
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Songs of Willow Frost2013 · 338 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013338
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Love and Other Consolation Prizes2017 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Many Daughters of Afong Moy2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Jamie Ford 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.

Standalone books

4 books

4 Jamie Ford titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jamie Ford books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 4 Jamie Ford books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jamie Ford

Start with Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jamie Ford book?

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (2022) is the newest Jamie Ford book released so far.

Is there a new Jamie Ford book coming?

No next Jamie Ford book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Jamie Ford has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Jamie Ford. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature2010Won

Jamie Ford at a glance

Paused
No new Jamie Ford title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Jamie Ford books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
690 pages across the 2 of 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 345 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jamie Ford books, 2 of 4, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jamie Ford books are about

All 4 Jamie Ford books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: chinese americans is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.