La Tercera
By: Gina Apostol
3.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Gina Apostol’s novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story o…
Want to Read $ 9.99"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."-Gina Apostol, La Tercera
"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."-Gina Apostol, La Tercera
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1. Ladrilleros
By: Selva Almada
4.16
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Luego de El viento que arrasa, su primera novela, verdadero acontecimiento literario debido a la gr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"A knife is almost like a continuation of your arm; you’d feel the other man’s life slipping out through the wound, the enemy blood gushing up the handle and wetting your clenched fist."-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Antes de decirle que sí al cura, Celina le había dicho que sí a su novio, a la urgencia de sus besos que le dejaban el cuello y los hombros llenos de pequeños moretones. Que era como decirle, también…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Marciano solía sentarse afuera las noches en que el calor hacía imposible quedarse adentro. Es decir, casi todas las noches del año, excepto las del invierno, tan breve como un suspiro. Todo el barri…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
2. Dogeaters
By: Jessica Hagedorn
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her best-selling novel about the Philippines during … read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. I Hotel
By: Sina Grace , Karen Tei Yamashita , Leland Wong
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
2010 National Book Award Finalist 2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Locust Girl: A Lovesong
By: Merlinda Bobis
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife and survi… read more
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- fiction
5. The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)
By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz
3.33
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
In a lush world inspired by the history and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of c… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience. Horror tales are inspired by reality."-Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)
6. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
7. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- asia
8. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
By: Mariely Lares
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
10. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
11. The History of a Difficult Child
By: Mihret Sibhat
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-own… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
14. Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
3.38
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more
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- adult
- fiction
15. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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16. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
17. Rust in the Root
By: Justina Ireland
4.09
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Best Girls
By: Min Jin Lee
3.95
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- asian literature
- adult
19. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
20. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
21. Pomegranate
By: Helen Elaine Lee
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
22. Lola Coqueta
By: Isabela Banzon
4.06
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more
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23. When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest
By: Glenn Diaz
4.27
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
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24. La Tercera
By: Gina Apostol
3.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Gina Apostol’s novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- international
"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."-Gina Apostol, La Tercera
25. Pics Or it Didn't Happen and Actual Stories
By: Anna Felicia C. Sanchez
3.75
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Animated classroom discussions, glass jars breaking in a laboratory, a daughter’s visit to the hosp… read more
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26. Skull Water
By: Heinz Insu Fenkl
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about … read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
27. What Have You Left Behind?
By: Bushra Al-Maqtari
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? p… read more
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- war
28. Strange Intimacy: Essays on Dressing Up and Consumption
By: Zea Asis
3.96
Format: 56 pages, Unknown Binding
Zea Asis' first book of essays is about a young woman's coming-of-age in the Philippines as bound t… read more
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29. The Kindness of Birds
By: Merlinda Bobis
3.80
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman’s reso… read more
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30. Departures
By: Priscilla Supnet Macansantos
3.93
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, the author reflects on her life and times, including those of family … read more
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31. Forgiving Imelda Marcos
By: Nathan Go
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Go’s taut meditation on forgiveness and regret is told in the indelible voice of a Filipino … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
