When the Emperor Was Divine

When the Emperor Was Divine

By
Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka
2002 • 272 pages

Ratings18

Average rating3.9

15

List

408 books

Gilmore Girls Reading List 🍂

amandify
AmandaSupporter
1984
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All the President's Men
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
An American Tragedy

List

300 books

Gilmore Girls

starscolapse
Sarrah
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Damselfly
The Story of My Life
Freaky Friday
Ironweed
Terms of Endearment

List

448 books

Women S Fiction

DebNance
Deb Nance
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
How Perfect Is That
The Russian Concubine
Perfect fifths
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mrs. Bridge

List

19 books

Lit Fic

Otakween
Elli
House of Leaves
The Eyre Affair
The Secret Life of Bees
The Book Thief
A Dirty Job
The Raw Shark Texts
The Art of Racing in the Rain

List

2 books

Historical Fiction

Otakween
Elli
The Buddha in the Attic
When the Emperor Was Divine

List

18 books

Asian American

hexapod
timothy
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Interior Chinatown
Minor Feelings
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Yellow
The Making of Asian America: A History
The Refugees

List

2,182 books

Ebook

SueWise
Susan Weissman
16 Lighthouse Road
A borrowing of bones
A dangerous inheritance
A Fine Balance
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Killer's Mind

List

1,864 books

Kindle

SueWise
Susan Weissman
Just One Evil Act
16 Lighthouse Road
A borrowing of bones
A dangerous inheritance
A Fine Balance
A Gentleman in Moscow

List

154 books

Fiction

bugbear
Adam
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 3: It's A Good Life
Shortcomings
Franny and Zooey
The Human Comedy
Asterios Polyp

List

149 books

Novels

bugbear
Adam
Middlesex
The Human Comedy
The Marriage Plot
Ender's Game
The Plague
Empire Falls

List

16 books

Historical Fiction

bugbear
Adam
Year of Wonders
Washington Black
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
Babouk: Voices of Resistance
When the Emperor Was Divine
The Prophets
The Four Winds

List

16 books

Asia

bugbear
Adam
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Crazy Rich Asians
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1
When the Emperor Was Divine
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

List

2 books

Utah

Phyllis
Phyllis
When the Emperor Was Divine
Under the Banner of Heaven

List

212 books

Own Kindle

cdenherder
Carrie
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology
The Secrets of Jin-shei
The Handmaid's Tale
Circle of Friends
The Da Vinci Code

List

226 books

Fiction

cdenherder
Carrie
Peony in Love
The Secrets of Jin-shei
The Princess Bride
The Joy Luck Club
The Good Earth
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

List

13 books

Asia Japan

cdenherder
Carrie
Autobiography of a geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
The Printmaker's Daughter
When the Emperor Was Divine
The Buddha in the Attic

List

60 books

Fic Historical

cdenherder
Carrie
Peony in Love
The Secrets of Jin-shei
The Joy Luck Club
The Good Earth
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Inheritance

List

3,544 books

Owned Ebook

nekokat
Kat
The Carpet People
The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
Anathem
Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
Bloodchild and Other Stories

List

509 books

Historical Fiction

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Chasing Secrets
Flame in the Mist
A Night Divided
The night crossing
Making Bombs for Hitler
The other side of free
Night Witches

List

1,803 books

Young Adult

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Dragondrums
Dragonsinger
The White Dragon
Dragonquest
Choices
Crucible
Tempest

List

48 books

World War 2

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Night Witches
The night crossing
Making Bombs for Hitler
The Valley of Lost Secrets
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
Don't You Know There's a War On?

List

41 books

1940s

spiritomb
Spiritomb
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
The Light in the Cellar
Blitz: The Diary of Edie Benson, London, 1940-1941
Margot & Me
This Light Between Us
Spy on the Home Front- A Molly Mystery Hc

List

7 books

Concentration Camps

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
This Light Between Us
When Can We Go Back to America?
When the Emperor Was Divine
Infamy
Detained without Cause: Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

List

792 books

Fiction

christinared
Christina
The Wonder
You Will Know Me
The one-in-a-million boy
Started Early, Took My Dog
When Will There Be Good News?
Le mystère Henri Pick
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

List

9 books

Japanese Internment

spiritomb
Spiritomb
This Light Between Us
When Can We Go Back to America?
When the Emperor Was Divine
Infamy
This Time Will Be Different
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Love in the Library
Next