20 best-selling fiction books like Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen

Soy Sauce for Beginners

By: Kirstin Chen

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move…

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1. The Mango Season

By: Amulya Malladi

3.61

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of A Breath of Fresh Air, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India d… read more

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  • chick lit
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Căsătoria cu cineva care nu îți înțelege cultura, rădăcinile, tradițiile nu va merge."

-Amulya Malladi, The Mango Season

"Copiii își respectă părinții... și asta e tot. Va trebui să înveți să te porți. Nu sunt vreo colegă de clasă de-a ta sau vreo prietenă ca să poți să vorbești așa cu mine. Eterna problemă. Mama voia s…"

-Amulya Malladi, The Mango Season

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2. A Breath of Fresh Air

By: Amulya Malladi

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her army officer husband to pick her up at the t… read more

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  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost pain"

-Amulya Malladi, A Breath of Fresh Air

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3. A House for Happy Mothers

By: Amulya Malladi

3.74

Format: 164 pages, Audio CD

A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season. In … read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks a woman, “You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you're hiding."

-Amulya Malladi, A House for Happy Mothers

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4. Chasing the Sun

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’… read more

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  • chick lit
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Kindness of Enemies

By: Leila Aboulela

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

It's 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Welcome to the Great Mysterious

By: Lorna Landvik

3.00

Format: 50 pages,

Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 90-Day Geisha: My Time as a Tokyo Hostess

By: Chelsea Haywood

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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8. Soy Sauce for Beginners

By: Kirstin Chen

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • food
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • chick lit

9. Serving Crazy with Curry

By: Amulya Malladi

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

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10. Highway with Green Apples

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.50

Format: 200 pages,

Award-winning Korean writer Bae Suah tells the story of a young woman in search of meaning as she c… read more

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11. The Godforsaken Daughter (Tailorstown #3)

By: Christina McKenna

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ruby Clare's father was alive, they happily toiled together on their small dairy farm in North… read more

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12. Nowhere to Be Found

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more

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13. On Turpentine Lane

By: Elinor Lipman

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes insti… read more

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14. The Second First Time

By: Elisa Lorello

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

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15. Apricot Kisses

By: Claudia Winter , Maria Poglitsch Bauer

4.57

Format: None pages,

Hanna has a foodie's dream job: as a culinary journalist, she gets to travel across Europe to write… read more

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16. The Copenhagen Affair

By: Amulya Malladi

3.85

Format: 238 pages,

Set in the capital city of the world's happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the … read more

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17. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Aftershock

By: Zhang Ling

4.17

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother’s heartbreaking choice and a daughter’s reconcil… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
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19. Everyone Knows You Go Home

By: Natalia Sylvester

4.03

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

An International Latino Book Award winner. The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere — in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home

"there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than …"

-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home

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20. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

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  • asian literature
  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Vibrant Years

By: Sonali Dev

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desa… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Well Behaved Wives

By: Amy Sue Nathan

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect wives, imperfect lives, and upending the rules of behavior in 1960s America. Law school … read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

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24. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Scent of a Garden

By: Namrata Patel

4.07

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfumer in Paris is forced to return to her California roots in an exhilarating novel about fami… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Direction of the Wind

By: Mansi Shah

4.09

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answe… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Secret of Elephants

By: Vasundra Tailor

4.10

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Navsari, India. Penniless and trapped in a loveless marriage, Nirmala spends her days anxiously car… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Go

By: Kazuki Kaneshiro

3.63

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translate… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
"But,"

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Though I may have been a misfit, I was also a romantic."

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Nationality isn’t much more than a lease to an apartment, "

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Take a good look at the wide world,' he said. 'You decide the rest."

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

Cover of Knitting With Hitler: A somewhat melodramatic black comedy by Avery Spear

29. Knitting With Hitler: A somewhat melodramatic black comedy

By: Avery Spear

3.44

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

“You have a problem, Philip,” said Louise, one of the old knitting ladies, “Something’s just not ri… read more

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30. The False Flat

By: Melissa Collings

4.37

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

In this uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a … read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

31. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

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20 must-read contemporary books like Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen

Transform Your Habits

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Amulya Malladi

3.61

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A Breath of Fresh Air

Amulya Malladi

3.91

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A House for Happy Mothers

Amulya Malladi

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Chasing the Sun

Natalia Sylvester

3.31

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Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

4.31

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Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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