Last of Her Name
By: Mimi Lok
4.11
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
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1. The Crown Ain't Worth Much
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more
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- contemporary
2. A Separation
By: Katie Kitamura
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. What We Lose
By: Zinzi Clemmons
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman comin… read more
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4. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
5. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
6. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
By: Yu Chen
3.85
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story … read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- asian literature
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
8. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
9. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
10. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
11. The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the "… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
12. Himawari House
By: Harmony Becker
4.37
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Bilingual Edition in English and Japanese Living in a new country is no walk in the park. Whe… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
By: Laura Gao
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, La… read more
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14. Parakeet
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Life has no past tense: To remember something is to relive it."-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"I will have thousands upon thousands of days and this is merely one of them. This thought brings relief."-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"There are intimacies that don't involve marriage just as there are marriages that don't involve intimacy. The mind provides the only possible privacy so what is more intimate than thought? If intimac…"-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
"There are intimacies that don't involve marriage just as there are marriages that don't involve intimacy. The mind provides the only possible privacy so what is more intimate than thought? If intimac…"-Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet
15. Now You See Us
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
16. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
17. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
18. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
19. Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
By: Meng Jin
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a … read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
20. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
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"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
21. Nothing but the Rain
By: Naomi Salman
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
22. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- asian literature
- adult
23. Skinship
By: Yoon Choi
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
"In Korean, that word is jeong. It is one of the most meaningful word in my language. It is even more meaningful than sarang, which is the “love,"-Yoon Choi, Skinship
24. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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25. The Souvenir Museum
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.47
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
26. 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
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
27. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
28. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
By: Paula Yoo
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers… read more
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29. Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
3.58
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman — finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she kn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
"What greater loneliness and longing is there than living with someone you once knew so well, and who is now hardly around?"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from t…"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"❝It is the nature of relationships that they are impossible to fully understand from the outside. Their inner workings both from memories and habits and histories made out of exterior world and from …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
"And from those brief moments I was living with a certainty that I was exactly where I should be, where everything is deeply quiet and deeply alive. I thought about the many aspects in this life that …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
30. Last of Her Name
By: Mimi Lok
4.11
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
LAST OF HER NAME is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of dia… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- adult
31. Accomplice to Memory
By: Q.M. Zhang
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In Accomplice to Memory, Q.M. Zhang pieces together the mystery of her father's exodus from China t… read more
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- asian literature
