Lunar New Year - Adults

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with our list of books written by Asian voices from all over the world!

Updated January 16, 2024
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Gods of want : stories
Chang, K-Ming
Paper Book
Surreal and seductive - brimming with moths, myths and mothers, nine-headed birds, ghost cousins and storm-chasers - Gods of Want is a startling first collection of short stories from a rising talent. In 'Auntland', a stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking...
Yellowface : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
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...
All that's left unsaid : a novel
Lien, Tracey
Paper Book
Readers are GRIPPED by ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID: 'The beautiful prose delivers a complex and heart-wrenching (but at times funny) story' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A stunner of a novel . . . powerful' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...
Our missing hearts : a novel
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE PANDORA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hottest book for THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, VOGUE, STYLIST, TIME MAGAZINE, EVENING STANDARD, THE I and THE IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY.
Dust child : a novel
Nguye??n, Phan Que?? Mai
Paper Book
  'LYRICAL AND DEEPLY EMPATHETIC.' Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow  'DAZZLING.' Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees  Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of...
The committed
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings 'Fierce and...
Wandering souls : a novel
Pin, Cecile
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A mighty achievement' OCEAN VUONG 'Beautiful, brilliant' R. F. KUANG 'Dazzling' OBSERVER 'Will shatter your heart' GLAMOUR 'Powerful'...
Banyan Moon : a novel
Thai, Thao
Paper Book
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A Novel
Vuong, Ocean.
Paper Book
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION 'A marvel' Marlon James Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuong's shattering coming of age novel. This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read...
Beautiful country : a memoir
Wang, Qian Julie
Paper Book
In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to...
How much of these hills is gold
Zhang, C Pam
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . ...
Four Treasures of the Sky A Novel
Zhang, Jenny Tinghui.
Paper Book
A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and one Chinese girl fighting to claim her place 'An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel' ANN PATCHETT, author of Women's Prize longlisted The Dutch House<...

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