Susan Choi Books in Order
Susan Choi has written 7 books, published between 1998 and 2025. The first book is The Foreign Student (1998) and the newest is Flashlight (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 1998–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,693 in 6 of 7 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,693 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 7 titles with a page count on record.
Susan Choi is an American novelist with 7 catalogued books. Trust Exercise (2019) won the National Book Award for Fiction, and Flashlight (2025) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. The run opens with The Foreign Student (1998) and takes in American Woman (2003), A Person of Interest (2008), My Education (2013) and Camp Tiger (2019). Foreign students, Koreans, women revolutionaries and social isolation appear among the recorded subjects.
How many Susan Choi books are there?
Susan Choi has 7 books, released between 1998 and 2025.
Susan Choi Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Susan Choi 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.
- 1The Foreign Student1998 · 325 pages · confirmed 2/419983252/4
- 2American Woman2003 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420033842/4
- 3A Person of Interest2008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420083682/4
- 4My Education2013 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420133042/4
- 5Camp Tiger2019 · 40 pages · confirmed 2/42019402/4
- 6Trust Exercise2019 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/420192722/4
- 7Flashlight2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Susan Choi 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
7 books7 Susan Choi titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Susan Choi books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 7 Susan Choi books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Susan Choi
Start with The Foreign Student (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Susan Choi book?
Flashlight (2025) is the newest Susan Choi book released so far.
Is there a new Susan Choi book coming?
No next Susan Choi 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 Susan Choi has won
Wikidata records 2 awards and 1 nomination for Susan Choi. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Award for Fiction2019Wonfor Trust Exercise
- Asian American Literary Awards1999Won
- Booker Prize2025Shortlistedfor Flashlight
Susan Choi at a glance
- Still publishing
- Susan Choi published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Susan Choi books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 1,693 pages across the 6 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Susan Choi books, 3 of 7, were published in the 2010s.
What the Susan Choi books are about
6 of the 7 Susan Choi books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 6 books