Asian Literature

Asian literature is the literature produced by writers in Asia. Or by Asian American writers.

Whidbey
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
The Plans I Have for You
The Fortune Flip
Prodigal Tiger
The Celestial Seas
Brighter Than Nine (Darker by Four, #2)
The Oks Are Not OK
The Fourth Princess
Greedy
The Midnight Taxi
Bad Asians
Love Me Tomorrow
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
The Poet Empress
Julie Chan Is Dead
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Molka
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
The Emperor of Gladness
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Flashlight
Our Missing Hearts
The Lotus Shoes
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaShantaram by Gregory David RobertsSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
India
1,030 books — 883 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
380 books — 256 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
777 books — 3,252 voters
Moth Smoke by Mohsin HamidA Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed HanifThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidKartography by Kamila ShamsieUrdu Ki Akhri Kitaab / اردو کی آخری کتاب by Ibn e Insha
Notable Books by Pakistani Authors
269 books — 254 voters

Pachinko
Convenience Store Woman
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Norwegian Wood
The Vegetarian
Memoirs of a Geisha
Crying in H Mart
82년생 김지영
The Joy Luck Club
Kafka on the Shore

Baek Se-hee
It was also revealed that the reason I am cruel to others is because I have low-self-esteem. Because I don’t love myself, I am unable to understand those who do love me in spite of it all, and so I test them. “You love me even when I do this? Or this? Or this?” Even when the other person forgives me, I am unable to understand their forgiveness, and when they give up on me, I torture and console myself with the “fact” that no one could ever love me. That goddamn self-esteem. [...] Looking more cl ...more
Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.
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