5 Top asia books like The Cave of the Yellow Dog by Byambasuren Davaa

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The Cave of the Yellow Dog

By: Byambasuren Davaa

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Davaa, a young filmmaker, returns to her native country and to the region where she grew up to show…

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1. Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she shou… read more

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"It's always better to be doing."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?"

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

"As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once."

-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)

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2. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
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3. Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)

By: Garth Nix

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

The Ninth was strong and fought with might But lone Orannis was put out of the light Broken in two … read more

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4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. Smith of Wootton Major

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Verlyn Flieger

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Unknown Binding

This collection includes two of Tolkien's best fairy stories. The world of Faery is the setting for… read more

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6. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's … read more

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7. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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8. The Historian

By: Elizabeth Kostova

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for  To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more

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9. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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10. The Housekeeper and the Professor

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he ha… read more

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11. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

12. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

By: Marina Lewycka

3.93

Format: None pages,

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianwas bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut n… read more

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13. Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn

4.41

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more

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14. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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15. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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16. Lud-in-the-Mist

By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson

4.43

Format: 269 pages,

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more

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17. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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18. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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19. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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21. Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more

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"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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22. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

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  • asian literature
"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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23. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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24. Do Your Worst

By: Rosie Danan

3.50

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become enemies-with-benefits in this … read more

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25. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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26. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

4.13

Format: 1009 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women w… read more

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"All gods are one god."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"Love is the only prayer I know."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"They have not forgotten the Mysteries,"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

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27. The Travelling Cat Chronicles

By: Hiro Arikawa

4.34

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old a… read more

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  • asia
"Guddo rakku!"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Because it was only natural to feel sad."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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28. She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time British Fantasy Award WinnerAstounding Award WinnerLambda Literary Award FinalistHugo Awar… read more

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"I can do this. I can learn. I can survive."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"What I want has nothing to do with who wins." -Ouyang"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

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29. Tokyo Ueno Station

By: Yū Miri

3.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

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30. The Cave of the Yellow Dog

By: Byambasuren Davaa

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Davaa, a young filmmaker, returns to her native country and to the region where she grew up to show… read more

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  • asian literature
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • travel
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31. Es existiert: Die Wissenschaft entdeckt das Unsichtbare (German Edition)

By: Johannes Huber

3.38

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Mit neuen Forschungsergebnissen und logischen Schlussfolgerungen bringt der renommierte Arzt, erimi… read more

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  • nonfiction

6 must-read nonfiction books like The Cave of the Yellow Dog by Byambasuren Davaa

Transform Your Habits

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

Édouard Louis

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis

4.25

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14 Top fiction books like Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

L'Arminuta

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Accabadora

Michela Murgia

4.07

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