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Gloria Chao

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Gloria Chao is a USA Today bestselling author and a screenwriter. Her novels include The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club (sequel coming 6.2026), Ex Marks the Spot, When You Wish Upon a Lantern, Rent a Boyfriend, Our Wayward Fate, and American Panda. She graduated from MIT and became a dentist before realizing she'd rather spend her days in fictional characters’ heads instead of real people’s mouths. When she’s not writing, you can find her on the curling ice, where she and her husband are world-ranked in mixed doubles.

Visit her tea-and-book-filled world at GloriaChao.Wordpress.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram @GloriacChao. ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 34,127 ratings · 7,152 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	American Panda 3.78 avg rating — 10,006 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club (A Hu Done It Mystery, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 10,535 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rent a Boyfriend 3.51 avg rating — 5,576 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3) by Elizabeth Schaefer (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tom Angleberger (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 2,671 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When You Wish Upon a Lantern 3.82 avg rating — 2,100 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ex Marks the Spot 3.78 avg rating — 1,956 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Wayward Fate 3.60 avg rating — 1,310 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales by Rebecca Podos (Goodreads Author), Gloria Chao (Goodreads Author), Mason Deaver (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 1,231 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First-Year Orientation by Lauren Gibaldi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adi Alsaid (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortal Enemy Murder Club (A Hu Done It Mystery, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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THE EX-GIRLFRIEND MURDER CLUB is out on Tuesday!

THE EX-GIRLFRIEND MURDER CLUB is out in 4 days! This was the most fun I’ve had while writing, and I hope it shows on the page. The book is a humorous murder mystery filled with shenanigans and revenge, but the heart of the story is the friendship between the three girls who discover they’re dating the same man. And when they band together to get revenge on him only to find his body, they now must

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The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club is a humorous mystery about three girls who discover they’re dating the same man and band together to prank him, only to discover his body. With motive and a crime scene covered in their DNA, they have to solve his murde ...more
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“I couldn't go through life as a shadow.”
― Gloria Chao, American Panda

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“And right now I had no idea where I ended and my parents began.”
― Gloria Chao, American Panda

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“If I lied, the real me would disappear.”
― Gloria Chao, American Panda

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