7 must-read horror books like Moving Parts by Prabda Yoon

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Moving Parts

By: Prabda Yoon

3.52

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a…

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1. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's The Diving Pool: Three Novellas book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicab…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

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2. Panty

By: Arunava Sinha , Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Darkly glamorous and fiercely erotic heroines take centre stage in these two novellas. In Panty, wh… read more

Similar categories in Arunava Sinha's Panty book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction

3. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

By: None , Chi-Young Kim

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out… read more

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4. Audition

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more

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5. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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6. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

Similar categories in Irene Solà's Canto yo y la montaña baila book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • fiction
"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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7. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

Similar categories in María Fernanda Ampuero's Pelea de gallos book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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8. 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

Similar categories in Claudia Piñeiro's Elena Knows book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

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

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

Cover of Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang

9. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Gods of Want: Stories book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • short stories
  • fiction
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

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10. Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories

By: Young-ha Kim

3.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six?  Diary of a M… read more

Similar categories in Young-ha Kim's Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
"People want to understand evil. A pointless desire. Evil is like a rainbow. It retreats at the same pace as your approach. Evil is evil because you can't understand it."

-Young-ha Kim, Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories

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11. 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

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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

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12. Territory of Light

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.59

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more

Similar categories in Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"

-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"

-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

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13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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14. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • fiction
  • horror
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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15. I Went To See My Father

By: Shin Kyung-Sook

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After… read more

Similar categories in Shin Kyung-Sook's I Went To See My Father book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
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16. At Dusk

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Pa… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"No sooner did I start college than President Park Chung-hee’s Yushin dictatorship began. Everything was in turmoil, and not a day went by without riots and school closures. My classmates were being a…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

"I sympathised with those who were fighting social injustices, but at the same time, by having the fortitude to just buckle down and get through it, I was able to forgive myself for not getting involv…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

"Back then, rice was in short supply, and the government was waging a campaign to encourage people to eat more flour and mixed grains. At school, our lunchboxes were inspected daily, and anyone caught…"

-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk

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17. Amora: Stories

By: Natalia Borges Polesso

3.74

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love b… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Borges Polesso's Amora: Stories book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Una cita con la Lady by Mateo García Elizondo

18. Una cita con la Lady

By: Mateo García Elizondo

3.76

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

«Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo … read more

Similar categories in Mateo García Elizondo's Una cita con la Lady book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Cannibals

By: Shin'ya Tanaka

2.92

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-y… read more

Similar categories in Shin'ya Tanaka's Cannibals book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Moving Parts by Prabda Yoon

20. Moving Parts

By: Prabda Yoon

3.52

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a… read more

Similar categories in Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
Cover of One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun

21. One Hundred Shadows

By: Hwang Jungeun

3.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows book and Prabda Yoon's Moving Parts

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

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3.23

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Eva Baltasar

3.89

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4.24

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Eva Baltasar

3.85

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Alana S. Portero

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