Asian Voices & Stories

Fiction by Asian authors and featuring the Asian community

Updated May 4, 2026
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Asian Voices & Stories

Fiction by Asian authors and featuring the Asian community

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The book of records
Thien, Madeleine
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION AWARDS PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books...
Pick a colour
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * The New Yorker * CBC * Indigo * TIME * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly * Real Simple * The Boston Globe From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham...
Emperor of Gladness : A Novel
Vuong, Ocean.
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller * Oprah's Book Club Pick * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews *...
The hunger we pass down
Lee, Jen Sookfong.
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2026 * FINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKES * FINALIST FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA PETER ROBINSON AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting...
Riveter : A Novel
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (New Yorker, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, CBC,Indigo, and more!) A cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII. Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling...
What a time to be alive
Chang, Jade
Paper Book
A deeply moving and often hilarious novel following a woman who becomes an internet folk hero in the most unexpected way, catapulting her into fame and influence just as she's finally beginning to reckon with her complicated past Lola...
Katabasis
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : A Novel
Desai, Kiran.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2025 * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...
Flashlight
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
The river has roots
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
Finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novella! An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river...
Water moon
Sotto, Samantha
Paper Book
The instant Sunday Times bestseller! Shortlisted for the 2025 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 'Full of adventure and marvellous creativity, Water Moon surprises and delights with every turn of the page' -- Megan Bannen, bestselling author of The...
Julie Chan is dead
Zhang, Liann.
Paper Book
Nominated for The Trillium Book Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2026 INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR's Books We Love for 2025 2026 Libby Book Awards Best Thriller For fans of Bunny and...
Park avenue
Ahdieh, Ren ee
Paper Book
The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Renée Ahdieh "Pulse-racing...Fans of The White Lotus and Crazy Rich Asians shouldn't miss this." --People "I can't remember the...
How to end a love story
Kuang, Yulin
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! "Emotional, relatable and binge-worthy." -Tessa Bailey "I'll read anything she writes. An absolute star." -Emily Henry "I was hooked on the very first page. Don't miss this one!" -- Carley Fortune ...
Real Americans
Khong, Rachel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA'S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK * From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us...
The story of us
Hernandez, Catherine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlist - Toronto Book Awards Nominee - Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Selection - Amnesty International Book Club From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bond of family and the magic that...
Denison Avenue
Wong, Christina
Paper Book
A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum's attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind. A moving story told in visual...
On the ravine
Lam, Vincent
Paper Book
From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction. CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year. ...
Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by...
Yellowface : A Novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who...
Hotline
Nasrallah, Dimitri
Paper Book
A 2023 Canada Reads Finalist Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal,...
We measure the earth with our bodies
Lama, Tsering Yangzom
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick * A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month * One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts * One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch * Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Millions,...
Counterfeit
Chen, Kirstin
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the...
Dandelion
Liew, Jamie Chai Yun
Paper Book
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town...
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...
Babel : or the necessity of violence ; an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial...
The swimmers
Otsuka, Julie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER * From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful...
Vibrant Years : A Novel
Dev, Sonali.
Paper Book
"Bursting with humor, banter, and cringeworthy first dates, Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years is a joyful and fun read, but it's also very much a timely tale about a group of underestimated women demanding respect and embracing their most authentic selves." --Mindy Kaling ...
Hana Khan carries on
Jalaluddin, Uzma
Paper Book
From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of "You've Got Mail," set in two competing halal restaurants Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood. Hana
Dial A for aunties
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
"Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too."--USA Today (four-star review) "A hilarious, heartfelt...
The reading list : a novel
Adams, Sara Nisha
Paper Book
NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK! "The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London...
How to pronounce knife : stories
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named one of Time's Must-Read Books...
Before the coffee gets cold
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Paper Book
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? ...
Family trust
Wang, Kathy
Paper Book
"A globe-trotting, whirlwind, tragi-comic family saga that wrings tears from absurdity and laughter from loss.  A joy to read from start to finish."    -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize The Nest meets...
The boat people
Bala, Sharon
Paper Book
By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land...
What we were promised
Tan, Lucy
Paper Book
Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China....
The poppy war
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...
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Jaswal, Balli Kaur.
Paper Book
Little fires everywhere
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month,...
Pachinko
Lee, Min Jin.
Paper Book
One of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. "Stunning." --New York...
The tea girl of hummingbird lane
See, Lisa
Paper Book
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual...
Do not say we have nothing
Thien, Madeleine
Paper Book
Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three...
Vi
Th uy, Kim.
Paper Book
The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands. The daughter of an enterprising mother...
The sympathizer : a novel
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for...
Everything I Never Told You : A Novel
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly,...
Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin.
Paper Book
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of...
A tale for the time being
Ozeki, Ruth L.
Paper Book
A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from...
Ru
Thuy, Kim
Paper Book
Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp...
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--now with a new preface "For me, [The Joy Luck Club] was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading...
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