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Asia Books
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Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1019 times as asia)
avg rating 4.34 — 642,702 ratings — published 2017
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 745 times as asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,120,541 ratings — published 1997
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 637 times as asia)
avg rating 3.65 — 403,709 ratings — published 2007
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 575 times as asia)
avg rating 3.67 — 384,034 ratings — published 2016
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 741,403 ratings — published 1987
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 510 times as asia)
avg rating 4.09 — 389,304 ratings — published 2005
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 494 times as asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,185 ratings — published 2009
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as asia)
avg rating 4.30 — 125,220 ratings — published 1991
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 472 times as asia)
avg rating 3.91 — 552,279 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,085 ratings — published 2003
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as asia)
avg rating 3.97 — 712,237 ratings — published 1989
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,367 ratings — published 2016
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 556,002 ratings — published 2002
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 398 times as asia)
avg rating 4.01 — 140,215 ratings — published 2015
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as asia)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,724 ratings — published 1997
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 391 times as asia)
avg rating 4.01 — 261,929 ratings — published 1931
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,160 ratings — published 2007
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as asia)
avg rating 4.32 — 173,508 ratings — published 2019
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as asia)
avg rating 4.14 — 317,876 ratings — published 1994
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as asia)
avg rating 3.89 — 132,147 ratings — published 1988
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 79,627 ratings — published 2014
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as asia)
avg rating 3.65 — 717,870 ratings — published 2015
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,979 ratings — published 2000
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as asia)
avg rating 4.06 — 136,781 ratings — published 2013
The Mountains Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as asia)
avg rating 4.31 — 64,542 ratings — published 2020
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 295 times as asia)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,109 ratings — published 1975
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 294 times as asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 506,071 ratings — published 2006
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as asia)
avg rating 3.92 — 163,569 ratings — published 2009
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 277 times as asia)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,047 ratings — published 2004
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as asia)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,769 ratings — published 2012
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as asia)
avg rating 3.64 — 68,543 ratings — published 2000
The Garden of Evening Mists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as asia)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,601 ratings — published 2011
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as asia)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,917 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as asia)
avg rating 4.23 — 613,501 ratings — published 2021
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as asia)
avg rating 3.69 — 144,596 ratings — published 1994
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
by (shelved 249 times as asia)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,484 ratings — published 2015
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as asia)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,318 ratings — published
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,995 ratings — published 2008
Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as asia)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,638 ratings — published 2008
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,593 ratings — published 2012
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as asia)
avg rating 4.35 — 213,273 ratings — published 2023
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 418,747 ratings — published 2019
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 55,029 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as asia)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,874 ratings — published 1981
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as asia)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,763,313 ratings — published 2001
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as asia)
avg rating 4.29 — 128,546 ratings — published 2017
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as asia)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,618 ratings — published 1999
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as asia)
avg rating 3.74 — 191,248 ratings — published 2004
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as asia)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,167 ratings — published 1995
“Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.”
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“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.”
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