Reading List
Amy Chua
Law Professor and Author
Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale, where she has taught since 2001 after seven years at Duke and a spell as a corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb. Her academic work is on ethnic conflict, globalisation and law and development, and her books carry it to general readers: World on Fire, Day of Empire and Political Tribes, alongside the memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers · 2000 · Non-Fiction
“I read this book 10 years ago and just loved it.” — via Interview, May 2011
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott · 1868 · Fiction
“The mother in Little Women was the strongest mother I came across.” — via Interview, May 2011
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham · 1998 · Fiction
“I chose this book because I think Laura Brown makes the strictest of tiger mothers look wonderful by comparison.” — via Interview, May 2011
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Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey · 1941 · Children's
“Mrs Mallard is my mothering role model.” — via Interview, May 2011
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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck · 1931 · Fiction
“O-Lan has stuck with me for all these years.” — via Interview, May 2011