11 best-selling novels books like Little Reunions by Eileen Chang

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Little Reunions

By: Eileen Chang

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang’s dark romance opens with Julie, living a…

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Cover of Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, Bonnie Huie

1. Notes of a Crocodile

By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more

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  • classics
  • novels
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • china
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

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2. Life and Death in Shanghai

By: Nien Cheng

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more

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  • asia
  • china
Cover of Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu, Nathan K. Mao, Jeanne Kelly

3. Fortress Besieged

By: Qian Zhongshu , Nathan K. Mao , Jeanne Kelly

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (a la Emma Bovary), with … read more

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  • classics
  • novels
  • literature
  • asia
  • chinese literature
  • fiction
  • china
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4. Ru

By: Kim Thúy

4.20

Format: None pages, Broche

Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

By: U.R. Ananthamurthy , A.K. Ramanujan

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has r… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Midnight in Sicily

By: Peter Robb

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Off the southern coast of Italy lies Sicily, home to an ancient culture that with its stark landsca… read more

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7. Journey Under the Midnight Sun

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasag… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Lucy

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

Format: None pages,

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

11. No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more

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12. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

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  • asia
  • fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

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13. Activities of Daily Living

By: Lisa Hsiao Chen

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do we take stock of a life—by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preocc… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • adult
"Grief is like watching television."

-Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

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14. 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

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  • asia
  • adult
  • fiction
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15. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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16. Weird Fucks

By: Lynne Tillman

3.17

Format: None pages, None

Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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17. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

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  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • novels
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18. Little Rabbit

By: Alyssa Songsiridej

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
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19. Little Reunions

By: Eileen Chang

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang’s dark romance opens with Julie, living a… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Chang's Little Reunions book and Eileen Chang's Little Reunions

  • classics
  • novels
  • literature
  • asia
  • chinese literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • china
  • adult
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20. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

21. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • asia
  • china

17 Best fiction books like Little Reunions by Eileen Chang

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Fortress Besieged

Qian Zhongshu , Nathan K. Mao , Jeanne Kelly

3.89

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Ru

Kim Thúy

4.20

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

U.R. Ananthamurthy , A.K. Ramanujan

4.10

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Transform Your Habits

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

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Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

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Sirpa Kähkönen

3.59

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