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
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLife of Pi by Yann MartelThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeDown and Rising by Rohith S. Katbamna
Best Multicultural General Fiction
590 books — 378 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
754 books — 1,920 voters

魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī] by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú] by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù人渣反派自救系统 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù二哈和他的白猫师尊 by Rou Bao Bu Chi RouHeaven Official's Blessing by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
Chinese BL or Danmei Novels
527 books — 382 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterShantaram by Gregory David RobertsThe Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Books Set in India
501 books — 424 voters

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanDescendant of the Crane by Joan HeThe Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhWicked Fox by Kat ChoThe Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow
YA East Asian Fantasy
173 books — 200 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

Wesley Yang
My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the midst of it: an “honorary white” person who will always be denied the full perquisites of whiteness; an entitled man who will never quite be regarded or treated as a man; a nominal minority whose claim to be a “person of color” deserving of the special regard reserved for victims is taken seriously by no ...more
Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

At this place in time, neither of them were foreign to each other. They were just two humans alone in the middle of the sky. The differences between them now were immaterial, like the faint whisper of traffic far below.
Zita Steele, Edge of Suspicion

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