A River of Stars
By: Vanessa Hua
3.60
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman mak…
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1. Spirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more
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- fiction
2. After Birth
By: Elisa Albert
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
3. Dear Fang, With Love
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Girls from Corona del Mar, a sprawling, ambitious new novel about … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Three Souls
By: Janie Chang
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We hav… read more
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- asia
- china
- fiction
5. Dreamers of the Day
By: Mary Doria Russell
4.44
Format: None pages,
""I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to m… read more
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- fiction
6. State of Emergency
By: Jeremy Tiang
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
7. Bannerless (The Bannerless Saga, #1)
By: Carrie Vaughn
3.70
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investi… read more
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- fiction
8. Sugarbread
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more
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9. Dream of Ding Village
By: Yan Lianke , Cindy Carter
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between autho… read more
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10. You Only Call When You're in Trouble
By: Stephen McCauley
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
11. 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
12. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"...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
14. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
By: Victor LaValle
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
16. Women of Good Fortune
By: Sophie Wan
3.59
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant b… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
"What's the point of getting educated if you're going to end up stuck as a housewife?" Jane's heard that one before. Some people find it hard to accept that housework is preferable to inflexible deadl…"-Sophie Wan, Women of Good Fortune
"Why would you want to work when you don't have to? "At some point, you have to do things for yourself," Jane says to Mei. "You'll understand once you've been worked like a dog and can't even keep tra…"-Sophie Wan, Women of Good Fortune
17. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
By: Anissa Gray
3.63
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, id… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Burn it all down. Let it go."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"I keep wondering how you find compassion for your own self when you go against what's good in you."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"My Big Mama raised us. She'd tell me and my two girl cousins every time we left the house, 'Y'all be careful. It's dangerous being a girl out there.'"-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"Sometimes life an pull a lot out of you, Althea. Just squeeze you dry. And if you don't have a way to get back whatever's good and precious to you, it's like losing your soul."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
18. Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
19. Games for Dead Girls
By: Jen Williams
3.44
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring the fine line where supernatural ends and real human monstrosity begins, Games for Dead G… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
20. A House Is a Body
By: Shruti Swamy
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The house is a body, a body houses souls."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting …"-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
21. Woman No. 17
By: Edan Lepucki
3.31
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"The thing Lady didn't get, or the thing she'd forgotten, was that being a child was painful too. She was so wrapped up in losing Seth, the treacheries of him growing up, that she couldn't remember wh…"-Edan Lepucki, Woman No. 17
22. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- china
- audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
23. Westside
By: W.M. Akers
3.30
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A young detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” finds herself at the center of a massive cons… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. Silence Is a Sense
By: Layla AlAmmar
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A profound and life-affirming debut about migration, trauma, and the healing power of community. A … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. A River of Stars
By: Vanessa Hua
3.60
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman mak… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- cultural
- novels
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
26. Sophia of Silicon Valley
By: Anna Yen
3.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant young Asian woman navigates the thrilling world of Silicon Valley in the boom years of … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
27. Now That I've Found You
By: Kristina Forest
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Now That I've Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
28. All the Things We Don't Talk About
By: Amy Feltman
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Love, Decoded
By: Jennifer Yen
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rom-com about the unexpected consequences of one teen's quest to help her friends find love. H… read more
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- asian literature
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Big in Sweden
By: Sally Franson
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
