13 must-read short stories books like Hao: Stories by Ye Chun

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Hao: Stories

By: Ye Chun

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following …

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Cover of Bliss Montage by Ling  Ma

1. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Cover of Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang

2. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Gods of Want: Stories book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

Cover of The Hive and the Honey: Stories by Paul Yoon

3. The Hive and the Honey: Stories

By: Paul Yoon

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey: Stories book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"

-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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4. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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5. 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 Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

6. Bestiary

By: K-Ming Chang

3.44

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Bestiary book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • asian literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It was a relief to love something already dead."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

Cover of Parade by Hiromi Kawakami

7. Parade

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer aft… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Parade book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
Cover of People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

8. People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.53

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's People From My Neighbourhood book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"

-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

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9. The Sorrows of Others

By: Ada Zhang

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more

Similar categories in Ada Zhang's The Sorrows of Others book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • china
Cover of Hao: Stories by Ye Chun

10. Hao: Stories

By: Ye Chun

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following … read more

Similar categories in Ye Chun's Hao: Stories book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • historical
  • asia
  • china
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
Cover of Skinship by Yoon Choi

11. Skinship

By: Yoon Choi

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Choi's Skinship book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
"In Korean, that word is jeong. It is one of the most meaningful word in my language. It is even more meaningful than sarang, which is the “love,"

-Yoon Choi, Skinship

Cover of Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung

12. Ghost Forest

By: Pik-Shuen Fung

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed … read more

Similar categories in Pik-Shuen Fung's Ghost Forest book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • china
"I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused onl…"

-Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

Cover of Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia       Lee

13. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

By: Julia Lee

4.34

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more

Similar categories in Julia Lee's Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • asian literature
Cover of The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin

14. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • asian literature
Cover of A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino

15. A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun

By: Kate Gavino

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Career in Books is a graphic novel for everyone who's wanted to work with books and had no idea w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Gavino's A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

16. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

17. All Your Children, Scattered

By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

4.15

Format: 192 pages, ebook

WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more

Similar categories in Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's All Your Children, Scattered book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua

18. The April 3rd Incident

By: Yu Hua

3.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of China's most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him t… read more

Similar categories in Yu Hua's The April 3rd Incident book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • china
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Tropicália by Harold  Rogers

19. Tropicália

By: Harold Rogers

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the heady days before a New Year’s Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil’s Copacabana Beach,… read more

Similar categories in Harold Rogers's Tropicália book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Ao Omae

20. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories

By: Ao Omae

3.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more

Similar categories in Ao Omae's People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • asian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Ye Chun's Hao: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Best fiction books like Hao: Stories by Ye Chun

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Gods of Want: Stories

K-Ming Chang

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Hive and the Honey: Stories

Paul Yoon

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So

3.95

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25 best-selling fiction books like The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua

Transform Your Habits

Daisy Miller

Henry James

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Iza's Ballad

Magda Szabó , George Szirtes

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Las batallas en el desierto

José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Daytripper

None , Fábio Moon , Gabriel Bá , Craig Thompson , Sean Konot

4.33

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