Solo Dance
By: Kotomi Li
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An important queer voice from East Asia’s millennial generation Cho Norie, twenty-seven and orig…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Am I afraid of something? If I had pursued that thought, I would have easily come to a conclusion. No one reads my diary, so I don't have to worry about what anyone will think. But stories are different. They're written to be read—even if you're alone during the writing process, eventually another pair of eyes is supposed to see it. I couldn't face that inevitability."-Kotomi Li, Solo Dance
"Am I afraid of something? If I had pursued that thought, I would have easily come to a conclusion. No one reads my diary, so I don't have to worry about what anyone will think. But stories are different. They're written to be read—even if you're alone during the writing process, eventually another pair of eyes is supposed to see it. I couldn't face that inevitability."-Kotomi Li, Solo Dance
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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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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- asia
- fiction
- queer
"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
2. Last Words from Montmartre
By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich
2.77
Format: 130 pages,
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- asia
- fiction
- queer
3. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- japan
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
4. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- japan
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
5. The Rainbow
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters i… read more
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- japan
- asia
- fiction
- japanese literature
"La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno." "Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarr…"-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
6. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
7. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- japan
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
8. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.63
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- japan
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
9. Dragon Palace
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 From the bestselling author of Strange Weather i… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- japan
10. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
11. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
12. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- japan
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
13. 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
- fiction
14. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
15. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
16. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
17. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
18. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
19. Solo Dance
By: Kotomi Li
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An important queer voice from East Asia’s millennial generation Cho Norie, twenty-seven and orig… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- asia
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- japanese literature
- japan
- queer
"Am I afraid of something? If I had pursued that thought, I would have easily come to a conclusion. No one reads my diary, so I don't have to worry about what anyone will think. But stories are differ…"-Kotomi Li, Solo Dance
20. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories
By: Ao Omae
3.22
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Third Love
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- japan
- fiction
- contemporary
