5 Best fantasy books like Green Frog: Stories by Gina Chung

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Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati…

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1. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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4. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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5. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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6. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
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7. The Stone Home

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hana Kim's The Stone Home book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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9. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • short stories
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10. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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11. The Band

By: Christine Ma-Kellams

3.11

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart, darkly funny, and biting debut follows a psychologist with a savior complex who offers … read more

Similar categories in Christine Ma-Kellams's The Band book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
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13. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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14. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

Similar categories in Katya Apekina's Mother Doll book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Wait

By: Gabriella Burnham

3.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Burnham's Wait book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Mouth: Stories

By: Puloma Ghosh

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

BESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL S… read more

Similar categories in Puloma Ghosh's Mouth: Stories book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • short story collection
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17. Broughtupsy

By: Christina Cooke

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more

Similar categories in Christina Cooke's Broughtupsy book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • short story collection
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19. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more

Similar categories in Priyanka Mattoo's Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

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20. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

Similar categories in Anton Hur's Toward Eternity book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. A Small Apocalypse: Stories

By: Laura Chow Reeve

4.32

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between.In her debut short-sto… read more

Similar categories in Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories book and Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Bora Chung

3.65

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Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

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3.47

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4.12

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4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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