The Funeral Cryer
By: Wenyan Lu
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s mid-life reawake…
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1. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Parti e omicidi
By: Sayaka Murata
3.76
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
3. The Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
4.01
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- china
- audiobook
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
4. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- china
- audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
5. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- audiobook
6. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
7. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
8. 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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- historical
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
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- audiobook
9. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
10. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
11. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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
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- asian literature
- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
14. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
15. The Funeral Cryer
By: Wenyan Lu
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s mid-life reawake… read more
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- asia
- death
- china
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
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- audiobook
16. The Volcano Daughters
By: Gina María Balibrera
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Cold to the Touch
By: Kerri Hakoda
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
American Predator meets Harlan Coben in this taut, ticking-clock thriller in which women are being … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Relative Strangers
By: A.H. Kim
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A twenty-first-century family drama featuring two sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy l… read more
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- audiobook
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- contemporary
19. Their Divine Fires
By: Wendy Chen
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A family saga that begins at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution and spans 100 years to trace the in… read more
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- historical
- asia
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
20. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
By: Syou Ishida
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more
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- asia
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- contemporary
- audiobook
21. This Great Hemisphere
By: Mateo Askaripour
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck : A speculative novel about a young wom… read more
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