b, Book, and Me
By: Kim Sagwa
3.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent, their teachers avert the…
Want to Read $ 9.99"A face as stiff as a boulder, stiff with boredom— that’s the face of an adult. Adults don’t think about the ocean even when they watch it. Their minds are full of other things. It’s very depressing to think that someday I, too, will be an adult"-Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me
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1. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang , Chi-Young Kim , Nomoco
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A Korean Charlotte's Web This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs … read more
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- asian literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"لا أدري لماذا حياتي صعبة هكذا. هل يحصل هذا معي لأن لدي حلمًا؟"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كانت حياتي قاسية, لكنني كنت سعيدة جدًا, وتمكنت من البقاء حية بسبب ذلك الحلم"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كان المكان هادئًا رغم انتهاء حياةٍ غاليةٍ على قلبها. كانت الأشجار والنجوم والقمر و العشب كلها هادئة, وكأنها تتظاهر بأنها لم تشاهد أي شيء."-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"Nur weil man zur selben Art gehört, heißt das nicht, dass man eine große glückliche Familie ist. Das Wichtigste ist, dass man sich versteht. Das ist Liebe!"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
2. I'll Be Right There
By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Sora Kim-Russell , None
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absu… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
3. Hardboiled & Hard Luck
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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5. Hotel Iris
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pooland The Housekeeper and the Profes… read more
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6. The Beauty
By: Aliya Whiteley
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more
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7. The Lake
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force. While The Lake shows off … read more
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8. The Hole
By: Sora Kim-Russell , Hye-Young Pyun , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to Bury… read more
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9. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
10. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
11. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- asian literature
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
12. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
14. 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
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
"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
15. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
16. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
17. Blue Hunger
By: Viola Di Grado
3.37
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, "a powerful and original writer" (Michael Cunningham)… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
18. A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
19. Lemon
By: Kwon Yeo-Sun
3.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more
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- asia
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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- asian literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
21. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo
4.30
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more
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- asia
22. The Night Guest
By: Hildur Knútsdóttir
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more
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- novella
- fiction
23. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
By: Riku Onda
3.11
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Set in Tokyo over the course of one night, Aki and Hiro have decided to be together one last time i… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
24. Shoko's Smile: Stories
By: Choi Eunyoung
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young wri… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"We should distinguish love from affection."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Film, art in general, only revealed it’s true face to hardworking geniuses, not hardworking mediocrities."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
25. To Be Devoured
By: Sara Tantlinger
3.82
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more
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- novella
- fiction
26. Friend
By: Nam-nyong Paek
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman i… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
27. Untold Night and Day
By: Bae Suah
3.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
28. Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
By: Misaki Ichijo
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll dat… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"No wound vanishes completely, because wounds are also memories. But the pain won’t last forever."-Misaki Ichijo, Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
29. The Law of Lines
By: Hye-Young Pyun
3.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the Prize-Winning Author of The Hole, a Slow-Burning Thriller about Unseen Forces that Shape U… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- novels
- fiction
"People don’t end up poor because they’re stupid. They end up poor because the system is fucked."-Hye-Young Pyun, The Law of Lines
"When does evil intent become evil itself? Is it evil simply to imagine and harbor an idea? Does it begin when a thought is put into action? And if that action fails, then did evil never exist to begi…"-Hye-Young Pyun, The Law of Lines
30. 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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- coming of age
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. b, Book, and Me
By: Kim Sagwa
3.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Best friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent, their teachers avert the… read more
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- literary fiction
- female authors
- coming of age
- novella
- asia
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- novels
"A face as stiff as a boulder, stiff with boredom— that’s the face of an adult. Adults don’t think about the ocean even when they watch it. Their minds are full of other things. It’s very depressing t…"-Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me
