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…
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1. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- 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
2. 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
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
3. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
4. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
5. Holding Pattern
By: Jenny Xie
3.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
- audiobook
6. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
7. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
8. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
9. Lies and Weddings
By: Kevin Kwan
3.82
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
10. Paper Names
By: Susie Luo
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
"Repetition. That was my father’s philosophy on learning. It applied not only to the piano, but my studies too. Before every test, he made me write out every single word from the textbook chapter, twi…"-Susie Luo, Paper Names
11. 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
- family
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. The Fortunes of Jaded Women
By: Carolyn Huynh
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. Mika in Real Life
By: Emiko Jean
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One phone call changes everything. At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relat… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
14. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- novels
16. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
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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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- novels
- audiobook
18. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
- audiobook
19. Daughters of the New Year
By: E.M. Tran
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut novel that moves backwards in time to trace five generations of Vietnamese moth… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
20. Beyond the Dragon's Gate
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.73
Format: 20 pages, ebook
Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more
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- fiction
21. Unleashed
By: Cai Emmons
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set amid California’s wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrus… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
