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
The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.
Pick a color : a novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE A USA Today Bestseller From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply...
The Emperor of Gladness
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
Jordan Peele's Us meets The School For Good Mothers in this horror-tinged intergenerational saga, as a single mother's doppelganger forces her to confront the legacy of violence that has shaped every woman in their family. "Genuinely frightening story of rape, abuse,...
Oxford Soju Club
Park, Jinwoo
Paper Book
A SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF 2025 * A CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF 2025 * A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025The natural enemy of a Korean is another Korean.When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his protégé, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given...
The riveter : a novel
Wang, Jack
Paper Book
In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe during WWII. Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full...
Katabasis : a novel
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
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an...
We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird,...
Guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning--longlisted for the National Book Award--is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children...
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
TRN
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...
A witch's guide to magical innkeeping
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! * A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers--and her life--back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sera Swan...
Water moon : a novel
Sotto, Samantha
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel. "Race through a lush world of pure wonder and romance--kites made of...
Julie Chan is dead : a novel
Zhang, Liann
Paper Book
TRN
Next time will be our turn
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come...
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 : a novel
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...
888 love and the divine burden of numbers
Chang, Abraham
Paper Book
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...
Land of milk and honey
Zhang, C Pam
Paper Book
" The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly...
We measure the earth with our bodies : a novel
Lama, Tsering Yangzom
Paper Book
International Bestseller Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's...
The foghorn echoes
Ramadan, Ahmad Danny
Paper Book
A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your past.
All this could be different
Mathews, Sarah Thankam
Paper Book
2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture,...
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...
Mika in Real Life
Jean, Emiko.
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA and READ WITH MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICK! Named a best book by Glamour, Marie Claire, TIME, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more! From New York Times bestselling Emiko Jean, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel...
Portrait of a thief
Li, Grace D.
Paper Book
"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times "This is as much a novel as a reckoning." New York Times The characters are alluring and ... engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as they try to...
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 very secret society of irregular witches
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, and is used to keeping her head down with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos 'pretending' to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and...
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...
The vibrant years
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 ...
Under lock & skeleton key
Pandian, Gigi
Paper Book
"Wildly entertaining." --The New York Times Book Review A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery Novel Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock...
Hana Khan carries on
Jalaluddin, Uzma
Paper Book
Arsenic and adobo
Manansala, Mia P.
Paper Book
In the small town of Shady Palms, Illinois, Lila Macapagal and her relatives run Tita Rosie's Kitchen, serve delicious Flipino dishes, and solve crimes on the side.
Dial A for aunties
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
The reading list
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...
The book of form and emptiness
Ozeki, Ruth
Paper Book
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction "No one writes like Ruth Ozeki--a triumph." --Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library "Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder." --TIME "If you've lost your...
How to pronounce knife : stories
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Spellbinding' i'Breathtaking' Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' Daisy JohnsonAn ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter...
Em
Thúy, Kim
Paper Book
Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between...
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? ...
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction * Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ...
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
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government...
The tiger flu
Lai, Larissa
Paper Book
Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a 'starfish,' a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose own organs are failing. But when a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious flu comes into their midst,...
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...
The incendiaries
Kwon, R. O.
Paper Book
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he...
Scarborough
Hernandez, Catherine
Paper Book
CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2022 NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and...
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Jaswal, Balli Kaur
Paper Book
Reese Witherspoon's March Book Club Pick! 'Big-hearted, earthy and funny... A rattlingly good story' Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Every woman has a secret life... When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating...
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 #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThis thrilling new novel from Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese woman and the out-of-wedlock child she abandoned who was adopted by an American couple. A powerful story about a family separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of...
Do not say we have nothing
Thien, Madeleine
Paper Book
In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the...
The sympathizer
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
Ng, Celeste.
Paper Book
Lydia, the middle and favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill dreams they were unable to pursue -- in Marilyn's case that her daughter becomes a doctor, in James's that she is...
Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin
Paper Book
Thwarted love, scheming snobs, obscene wealth and haute couture - it's all here in a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. An absolutely wicked treat!
A tale for the time being
Ozeki, Ruth
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it , Nao plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary...
Ru
Thúy, Kim.
Paper Book
A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.
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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