Asian Literature

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

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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
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)
Molka
Flashlight
The Lotus Shoes
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Our Missing Hearts
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
418 books — 1,102 voters
Kira-Kira by Cynthia KadohataAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangGirl in Translation by Jean KwokEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Best Asian-American Teen Fiction
278 books — 336 voters

Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Tales of Ian and Bry-Ankh The Great Silver Dragon by Jim DilyardLegend by Marie LuBinti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Diversity in Fantasy and Science Fiction
1,155 books — 910 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Asian-American Books
545 books — 329 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

L.M. Weeks
Kumakura’s use of the word sensei, reserved for professionals, including doctors and lawyers, but which Japanese doctors tried to reserve to themselves, was tacit acknowledgment that Kumakura knew the hierarchy had changed.
L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning

Amy Tan
If you want to take pictures of Chinese food, you have to taste real Chinese food. The flavors soak into your tongue, go into your stomach. The stomach is where your true feelings are. And if you take photos, these true feelings from your stomach can come out, so that everyone can taste the food just by looking at your pictures.
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

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