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…
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1. 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
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- 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
2. 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
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"...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
3. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
4. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
5. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- china
- adult
- audiobook
6. The House of Broken Bricks
By: Fiona Williams
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ain’t nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You’re like these houses, not a whole brick … read more
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- audiobook
7. Sound the Gong (Kingdom of Three, #2)
By: Joan He
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, comes the dazzling and sweeping conclusio… read more
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- asian literature
- audiobook
"If he's to be my final sight in this world, I will make myself his."-Joan He, Sound the Gong (Kingdom of Three, #2)
8. The Stone Home
By: Crystal Hana Kim
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
9. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
10. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
11. The Secret History of Audrey James
By: Heather Marshall
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
By: Abraham Chang
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
13. 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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- asian literature
- china
- audiobook
14. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
15. Tiananmen Square
By: Lai Wen
4.10
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the y… read more
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- asia
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"My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all."-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
"As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I ne…"-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
16. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- china
- adult
- audiobook
17. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
18. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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19. Trouble in Queenstown
By: Delia Pitts
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With Trouble in Queenstown , Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful… read more
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20. The Palace of Eros
By: Caro De Robertis
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more
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21. Memento Mori
By: Eunice Hong
4.69
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Don’t look back. Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? In this b… read more
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