
000077
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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