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East-Asian Interest
Books set in or concerning East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan) or books of interest to East-Asian Americans
Authors & Titles
- Alai: Red Poppies

- Alexander, Alma: The Secrets of Jin-Shei

- Backer, Sara: American Fuji

- Barker, Susan: Sayonara Bar

- Bi Feiyu: The Moon Opera

- Bradby, Tom: The Master of Rain

- Brandeis, Gayle: The Book of Dead Birds

- Buck, Pearl S.: Dragon Seed

- Buck, Pearl S.: East Wind: West Wind

- Buck, Pearl S.: Letter From Peking

- Buck, Pearl S.: The New Year

- Buck, Pearl S.: The Three Daughters of Madame Liang

- Buck, Pearl S.: Pavilion of Women

- Buck, Pearl S.: Peony

- Chan, Jeffery Paul: Eat Everything Before You Die

- Chang, Eileen: Love in a Fallen City

- Chang, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

- Chang, Lan Samantha: Inheritance (China & America)


- Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha: Bound Feet and Western Dress

- Chao, Patricia: Monkey King

- Chen, Da: Brothers

- Chen, Ran: A Private Life

- Chen, Ying: Ingratitude

- Cheng, Terrence: Sons of Heaven

- Cheong, Fiona: Shadow Theatre

- Chun, Pam: The Money Dragon

- Chun, Pam: When Strange Gods Call

- Chun, Sue: Beijing Doll

- Clavell, James: Asian Saga
- Shogun

- Tai-Pan

- Gai-Jin

- King Rat

- Noble House

- Whirlwind

- Dai, Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

- Dalton, John: Heaven Lake

- Davis-Gardner, Angela: Plum Wine

- Deford, Frank: Love and Infamy

- Dis, Adriann Van: My Father's War

- Drabble, Margaret: The Red Queen

- Elegant, Robert: Last Year in Hong Kong

- Eng, Tan Twan: The Gift of Rain

- Epstein, Jennifer Cody: The Painter From Shanghai

- Esaki-Smith, Anna: Meeting Luciano

- Fenkl, Heinz Insu: Memories of My Ghost Brother

- Fleischman, Lisa Huang: Dream of the Walled City

- Garcia, Cristina: Monkey Hunting

- Ghosh, Amitav: The Glass Palace

- Godshalk, C.S.: Kalimantaan

- Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha

- Gralla, Cynthia: The Floating World

- Guo, Xiaolu: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

- Hamamura, John Hideyo: Color of the Sea

- Hand, Elizabeth: Anna and the King

- Hanrahan, Catherine: Lost Girls and Love Handles

- Harrison, Kathryn: The Binding Chair

- Hearn, Lian: Tales of the Otori series
- Across the Nightingale Floor

- Grass For His Pillow

- Brilliance of the Moon

- The Harsh Cry of the Heron

- Hersey, John: The Call

- Highbridge, Dianne: In the Empire of Dreams

- Hill, Justin: The Drink and Dream Teahouse

- Hirahara, Naomi: Mas Arai series
- Summer of the Big Bachi

- The Gasa-Gasa Girl

- Snakeskin Shamisen

- Blood Hina

- Hong, Ying: Daughter of the River

- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki: The Legend of the Fire Horse Woman

Hur, Angela Mi Young: The Queens of K-Town

- Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women

- Jen, Gish: The Love Wife

- Jen, Gish: Mona in the Promised Land

- Jiang Rong: Wolf Totem

- Jin, Ha: The Bridegroom

- Jin, Ha: The Crazed

- Jin, Ha: A Free Life

- Jin, Ha: Nanjing Requiem

- Jin, Ha: Waiting

- Jin, Ha: War Trash

- Johnson, Susan: Pure Silk

- Jose, Nicholas: The Red Thread

- Kamata, Suzanne: Losing Kei

- Kanehara, Hitomi: Snakes and Earrings

- Kawabata, Yasunari: First Snow on Fuji

- Keller, Nora Okja: Comfort Woman

- Keltner, Kim Wong: Lindsey Owyang series
- The Dim Sum of All Things

- Buddha Baby

- Kim, Eugenia: The Calligrapher's Daughter

- Kim, Patti: A Cab Called Reliable

- Kim, Suki: The Interpreter

- Kirino, Natsuo: Grotesque

- Kitahara, Aiko: The Budding Tree

- Kneale, Matthew: Mr. Foreigner

- Kojima, Nobuo: Embracing Family

- Kwa, Lydia: This Place Called Absence

- Lanchester, John: Fragrant Harbor

- Larsen, Jeanne: Silk Road

- Lee, Chang-Rae: A Gesture Life

- Lee, Don: Country of Origin

- Lee, Edward Jae-Suk: The Good Man

- Lee, Jen Sookfong: The End of East

- Lee, Sky: Disappearing Moon Cafe

- Lee, Wendy: Happy Family

- Levy, JoAnn: Daughter of Joy

- Lianke, Yan: Serve the People!

- Libby, Lewis: The Apprentice

- Lindley, Maureen: The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel

- Liu, Aimee: Flash Horse

- Loh, Vyvyane: Breaking the Tongue

- Louie, Andrea: Moon Cakes

- Louie, David Wong: The Barbarians Are Coming

- Luk, Henry: The Heir

- Mah, Adeline Yen: Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

- Mar, M. Elaine: Paper Daughter

- Massey, Sujata: Rei Shimura series
- The Salaryman's Wife

- Zen Attitude

- The Flower Master

- The Floating Girl

- The Bride's Kimono

- The Samurai's Daughter

- The Pearl Diver

- The Typhoon Lover

- Girl in a Box

- Shimura Trouble

- Matsuoka, Takashi: Autumn Bridge

- Maugham, W. Somerset: The Painted Veil

- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum: God of Luck

- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum: The Moon Pearl

- McCunn, Ruthanne Lum: Wooden Fish Songs

- McKenna, Richard: The Sand Pebbles

- Min, Anchee: Becoming Madame Mao

- Min, Anchee: Orchid series
- Empress Orchid

- The Last Empress

- Min, Anchee: Red Azalea

- Min, Anchee: Wild Ginger

- Min, Katherine: Secondhand World

- Miura, Tetsuo: Shame in the Blood

- Mizukami, Tsutomu: The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen

- Mones, Nicole: A Cup of Light

- Mones, Nicole: The Last Chinese Chef

- Mones, Nicole: Lost in Translation

- Mori, Kyoko: Stone Field, True Arrow

- Mueller, Marnie: The Climate of the Country

- Mura, David: Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire

- Ng, Fae Myenne: Bone

- Ng, Fae Myenne: Steer Toward Rock

- Nothomb, Amelie: The Character of Rain

- Nothomb, Amelie: Fear and Trembling

- Oakes, Andy: Dragon's Eye

- Ogawa, Yoko: The Diving Pool

- O'Hara, Patrick: The Luck of the Lonely Sea

- Ong, Han: Fixer Chao

- Otsuka, Julie: When the Emperor Was Divine

- Otto, Whitney: A Collection of Beauties

- Ozeki, Ruth L.: My Year of Meats

- Park, Frances & Ginger: To Swim Across the World

- Peace, David: Tokyo series
- Tokyo Year Zero

- Occupied City

- Pietrzyk, Leslie: Pears on a Willow Tree

- Ping Lu: Love and Revolution

- Ping, Wang: The Last Communist Virgin

- Ran Chen: A Private Life

- Revoyr, Nina: The Age of Dreaming

- Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko: Why She Left Us

- Robson, Lucia St. Clair: The Tokaido Road

- Ryan, Shawna Yang: Locke 1928

- Sa, Shan: Empress

- Sakamoto, Kerri: One Hundred Million Hearts

- Salzman, Mark: The Laughing Sutra

- Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg: The Snow Fox

- Schuyler, Nina: The Painting

- Schwartz, John Burnham: The Commoner

- Setlowe, Richard: The Sexual Occupation of Japan

- Shepard, Karen: An Empire of Women

- Sherwin, Hiroko: Eight Million Gods and Demons

- Shigekuni, Julie: Invisible Gardens

- Shimoda, Todd: The Fourth Treasure

- Shuker, Carl: The Method Actors

- Sijie, Dai: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

- Sijie, Dai: Once on a Moonless Night

- Spence, Alan: The Pure Land


- Standridge, Dana: Lessons in Essence

- Suyin, Han: Till Morning Comes

- Talarigo, Jeff: The Ginseng Hunter

- Talarigo, Jeff: The Pearl Diver

- Tan, Amy: The Bonesetter's Daughter

- Tan, Amy: The Hundred Secret Senses

- Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club

- Tan, Amy: The Kitchen God's Wife

- Tel, Jonathan: The Beijing of Possibilities

- Teo, Hsu-Ming: Behind the Moon

- Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings

- Trobaugh, Augusta: Sophie and the Rising Sun

- Tsukiyama, Gail: The Samurai's Garden

- Tsukiyama, Gail: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

- Tyau, Kathleen: Makai

- Wang, Annie: The People's Republic of Desire

- Wang, Gang: English

- Wang, Lulu: The Lily Theater

- Wang Xiaobo: Wang in Love and Bondage

- Watada, Terry: Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes

- Weng Anyi: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai

- Wiley, Richard: Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show

- Williams, Adam: The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

- Yamada, Amy: Bedtime Eyes

- Yamanaka, Lois-Ann: Father of the Four Passages

- Yamanaka, Lois-Ann: Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

- Yan, Geling: The Banquet Bug

- Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese

- Yasuoka, Shotaro: The Glass Slipper and Other Stories

- Yoshikawa, Mako: Once Removed

- Yoshimoto, Banana: N.P.

- Yoshimura, Akira: On Parole

- Yoshimura, Akira: Storm Rider

- Yu Hua: Cries in the Drizzle

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