Lunar New Year - Adults

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

Updated December 13, 2024
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The hundred secret senses
Tan, Amy
Ebook
The international bestseller from the author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of...

Adult Fiction

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...

Adult Nonfiction

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...

Adult Fiction

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...
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.

Adult Fiction

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, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

Adult Fiction

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* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer 'Provocative' Mail on Sunday<...

Adult Fiction

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...

Adult Fiction

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<...

Adult Fiction

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 âe~Powerfulâe(tm) SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and...

Adult Fiction

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 . . . ...

Adult Fiction

Banyan Moon : a novel
Thai, Thao
Paper Book

Adult Fiction

The good, the bad, and the aunties
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
'Another on point mix of humour, chaos and quirky fun' Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With ItThe laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 Itâe(tm)s Chinese New Year, a time to celebrateâe¦ ...

Adult Fiction

The fetishist : a novel
Min, Katherine
'Incandescent, astonishing, a miracle' R. O. KWON 'With The Fetishist, Min has left the world something original and highly potent' INDEPENDENT 'Savage, horrible and very funny' i-D MAGAZINE In this...

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