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All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

All This Could Be Different | Sarah Thankam Mathews | From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant

Posted in Asian Interest Memoir

Ma And Me by Putsata Reang

Ma And Me | Putsata Reang | When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding s

Posted in Asian Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Hani And Ishu’s Guide To Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Hani And Ishu’s Guide To Fake Dating | Adiba Jaigirdar | Everyone likes Humaira ‘Hani’ Khan?she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, th

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Yaneura no nishojo [Two Virgins in the Attic] by Yoshiya Nobuko

Yaneura no nishojo [Two Virgins in the Attic] | Yoshiya Nobuko | In 1919’s Two Virgins in the Attic, the love story is between Akiko and Tamaki, two dormmates who move in together. Sabrina Imbler writes in Atlas Obs

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Hana Monogatari [Tales of Flowers] by Yoshiya Nobuko

Hana Monogatari [Tales of Flowers] | Yoshiya Nobuko | ‘The stories focus on friendship, the admiration of teachers, the warm affection between mother and daughter, and the adoration from one girl to anoth

Posted in Asian Interest Graphic Novel

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

Shadow Life | Hiromi Goto | When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she

Posted in Asian Interest Speculative Fiction

The Empress Of Salt And Fortune by Nghi Vo

The Empress Of Salt And Fortune | Nghi Vo | A fantasy novel of spring 2020 with the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo’s the Empress Of Salt And For

Posted in Asian Interest Speculative Fiction

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became The Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan | To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything ‘I refuse to be nothing…’

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty y

Posted in Asian Interest Horror

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to

Posted in Asian Interest Speculative Fiction

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri | One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess searching for her family. Together, they will chang