The Evening Hero
By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
3.82
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confron…
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1. Dogs at the Perimeter
By: Madeleine Thien
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perim… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. 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
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
4. 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
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
5. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
6. The Liberators
By: E.J. Koh
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- historical fiction
- adult
7. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
8. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
9. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
By: Jamie Ford
3.87
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Don't change. Instead change the world."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
10. What We Kept to Ourselves
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
11. Just Do This One Thing for Me
By: Laura Zimmermann
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rule-following daughter tries to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears. … read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- adult
13. The Apology
By: Jimin Han
3.47
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
14. A Map for the Missing
By: Belinda Huijuan Tang
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
15. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
16. The Evening Hero
By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
3.82
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confron… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- family
17. Kaleidoscope
By: Cecily Wong
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- novels
18. Nuclear Family
By: Joseph Han
3.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family livi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- novels
19. Keya Das's Second Act
By: Sopan Deb
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
20. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
By: Mary-Alice Daniel
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from… read more
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- adult
21. All the Girls in Town
By: Staci Greason
4.28
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Three smart, sexy–-and slightly screwed up--women join forces to exact revenge on the rising rock s… read more
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- fiction
