Little Gods
By: Meng Jin
3.60
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unrav…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Perhaps this was the first time I realized how simple it was to act as if certain parts of the past did not exist."-Meng Jin, Little Gods
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1. The Calligrapher's Daughter
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3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping debut novel, inspired by the life of the author’s mother, about a young woman who dares … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
"It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have."-Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher's Daughter
2. Girlchild
By: Tupelo Hassman
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her… read more
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- adult
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3. New People
By: Danzy Senna
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manne… read more
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4. The Boat Rocker
By: Ha Jin
4.00
Format: 112 pages,
From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waitingand War Trash: an urgent, timely novel… read more
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5. 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
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- adult
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"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
6. A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more
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- literary fiction
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"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
7. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
8. Everything the Light Touches
By: Janice Pariat
3.75
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more
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- literary fiction
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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
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10. Nonfiction
By: Julie Myerson
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more
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11. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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12. Scatterlings
By: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all … read more
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13. Honey
By: Victor Lodato
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more
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14. Troubled Waters
By: Mary Annaïse Heglar
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with … read more
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15. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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16. Where There Was Fire
By: John Manuel Arias
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more
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17. Little Gods
By: Meng Jin
3.60
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unrav… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- historical fiction
- china
- adult
- audiobook
"Perhaps this was the first time I realized how simple it was to act as if certain parts of the past did not exist."-Meng Jin, Little Gods
18. Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more
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19. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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20. Satellite Love
By: Genki Ferguson
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel ab… read more
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"I realized, then, that love could be a threat. That the basic foundation for romance is knowing that the other could destory you at any moment, yet trusting that they won't. Mutually Assured Destruct…"-Genki Ferguson, Satellite Love
21. Persephone’s Choice
By: Yihan Sim
3.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
What if the gods were condemned to immortality due to the continued storytelling by mortals? What i… read more
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