Lunar New Year

Welcome the Year of the Horse as Lunar New Year arrives on 17 February 2026. Explore stories that honour tradition, family, renewal, and the richness of cultures across East and Southeast Asia. Discover heartfelt memoirs, vibrant fiction, cookbooks, and more that celebrate the spirit of the season and invite reflection, connection, and joy.

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Lunar New Year

Welcome the Year of the Horse as Lunar New Year arrives on 17 February 2026. Explore stories that honour tradition, family, renewal, and the richness of cultures across East and Southeast Asia. Discover heartfelt memoirs, vibrant fiction, cookbooks, and more that celebrate the spirit of the season and invite reflection, connection, and joy.

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8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster
Lee, Mirinae.
Paper Book
"Fantastically original doesn't begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible--from a fractured century of agonies and betrayals, she has woven a novel of immense beauty and regeneration." -- Junot Díaz, author of ...
All the Rivers Run South
Yu, Ouyang
Paper Book
This is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia, told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in creative writing, at Laurendal University, under the...
I am not Jessica Chen
Liang, Ann
Paper Book
Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will...
The boy with the blue trousers
Jones, Carol
Paper Book
On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past. 1856, China. In the mulberry groves of the Pearl River Delta, eighteen-year-old Little Cat carries a terrible secret. And so, in disguise as a boy in blue trousers,...
China : The Cookbook
Fong Chan, Diora
Paper Book
The definitive cookbook bible of the world's most popular and oldest cuisine "China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable reference for many years to come." --Ken Hom...
Chinese Made Easy: Simple, Modern Recipes for Every Day
Wan, Kwoklyn.
Paper Book
Dive into Chinese cooking with this delicious collection of more than 70 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes. With clear, uncomplicated instructions and accessible, supermarket-friendly swaps for traditional Chinese ingredients, Chinese Made Easy demystifi
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
Chung, Candice.
A memoir about saying the unsayable with food, and how our eating lives can bring us together, and sometimes - keep us apart.
Chinese postman
Castro, Brian.
Paper Book
Chopsticks or Fork?: Recipes and Stories from Australia's Regional Chinese Restaurants
Wong, Jennifer.
Paper Book
Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created by Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong. The book lovingly captures the stories of ten very different families who run Chinese...
Complete illustrated guide to chinese cooking, the
Souksisavanh, Orathay
Chinese is one of the world's most beloved cuisines, but cooking Chinese food at home can still feel daunting to many. The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Cooking breaks down 100 classic recipes, demystifying ingredients and techniques and inspiring home cooks of all...
A Day in Hong Kong: A Cantonese Cookbook
Chan, ArChan.
Paper Book
The best of Hong Kong cuisine, from AM to PM. A Day in Hong Kong is a culinary journey through one of the world's most vibrant cities--a place that's bursting at the seams with incredible food and the people who love to eat it. Experience the city through its most iconic...
The downstairs girl
Lee, Stacey
Paper Book
A Reese's Book Club YA Pick and New York Times Bestseller   From the critically acclaimed author of Luck of the Titanic, Under a Painted Sky, and Outrun the Moon comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.
The emperor of Gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut,...
Ghost Girl Banana
Wharton, Wiz.
Paper Book
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging...
Ghost of the neon god
Napper, t R.
Paper Book
Jackson Nguyen is a petty crook living slim on the mean streets of Melbourne. When he crosses paths with a desperate, but wealthy, Chinese dissident, begging for his help, Jack responds in the only natural way: he steals her shoes. And yet, despite every effort to mind his own damn...
Guts: ; A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances
Leong, Melissa.
A gripping, incisive and darkly funny memoir from food and style icon and MasterChef Australia's first female judge, Melissa Leong.
The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Amy Tan's modern classic that examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters "For me, [The Joy Luck Club] was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish...
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From "one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot" (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China--perfect for fans of...
The Leftover Woman
Kwok, Jean.
Paper Book
Recommended by The New York Times * Elle * Good Morning America * TIME * People * New York Post * Real Simple * Goodreads * LibraryReads * and many more!  An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different...
Lunar love : a novel
Jessen, Lauren Kung
Paper Book
This sweet, enemies-to-lovers rom-com filled with Chinese astrology is a perfect match for readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams. Always a matchmaker, never a match... Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash...
Model Minority Gone Rogue: ; How One Chinese-Australian daughter of a Tiger Mother Went Way Off Script and Created the Life She Really Wanted
Qin, Lisa.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority.
Modern chinese
Low, Sam
Paper Book
Everyday, at-home Chinese cooking from MasterChef NZ winner Sam Low
My year abroad
Lee, Chang-rae
Paper Book
From an award-winning writer known for exploring issues of culture and identity with provocative originality, My Year Abroad is a bold and exciting new novel about the people we meet who change our lives forever, and a brilliant satire/fable about entrepreneurship and the American dream.
Our missing hearts
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, and more * A Reese's Book Club Pick * New York Times...
The Poppy War Collector's Edition
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time "I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year...I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang's] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin." -- Booknest From #1 New York Times...
Raised by wolves
Ho, Jess
Paper Book
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs of Melbourne was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctionalfamily who only ever made peace over food (and then only until the bill arrived), and it's clear that a normal life was never onthe menu for her. She emerged from her childhood with...
Secrets, silences and sources : five Chinese-Australian family histories
Couchman, Sophie
Paper Book
A Song to Drown Rivers
Liang, Ann.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER OCTOBER 2024 GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK An October 2024 Indie Next Pick * An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick Order now and receive the stunning...
Spies and lies : how China's greatest covert operations fooled the world
Joske, Alex
Paper Book
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of...
Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Riwoe, Mirandi
Paper Book
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying...
The Taiwanese Table: Food from the isles of Formosa
Chen, Muriel.
The Taiwanese Table: Food from the Isle of Formosa bring over 80 delicious recipes that are reflective of the simple, balanced and fresh quality ingredients of the Taiwanese cuisine.It' s been 20 years since Muriel and her mother Jade opened up their successful restaurant Blue Eye Dragon in Pyrmont,...
Unpolished gem
Pung, Alice.
Paper Book
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream - Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head-first into schooling,...
Yellowface
Kuang, Rebecca F
Ebook
The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer<...
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