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
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 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

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
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

2 States by Chetan BhagatI Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder SinghThe 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan BhagatThe Immortals of Meluha by Amish TripathiRevolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
Indian Books - Fiction
1,128 books — 2,463 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

Viet Thanh Nguyen
As a nonwhite person, the General, like myself, knew he must be patient with white people, who were easily scared by the nonwhite. Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere. The General was deeply familiar with the nature, nuances and internal differences of white people, as was every nonwhite person who had lived here a good number of years. We ate their food, we watched their movies, we observed their lives and psyche v ...more
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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