Books set all or part in East Asia (except China) including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mongolia & Tibet
East Asia (except China)
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The Puzzle Box: A Novel
by Danielle Trussoni
Hardcover: Oct 2024
Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world's greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the most dangerous mystery of his life ... or die trying, in the new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Puzzle Master, ...
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Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by Yoko Ogawa
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
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Age 16
by Rosena Fung
Hardcover: Jul 2024
A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down—and rebel against—standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth.
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The Night of Baba Yaga
by Akira Otani, Sam Bett
Hardcover: Jul 2024
A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by Ronald Drabkin
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who ...
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One Hour of Fervor
by Muriel Barbery
Hardcover: Jan 2024
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe's most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.
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Skull Water: A Novel
by Heinz Insu Fenkl
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Dec 2023
A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea—about friendship, belonging, and displacement.
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My Heart Underwater
by Laurel Fantauzzo
Hardcover: Oct 2020
Paperback: Nov 2023
Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen drowning under pressure and learning to trust her heart.
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The Liberators
by E.J. Koh
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.
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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
by Franny Choi
Hardcover: Nov 2022
Paperback: Nov 2023
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and...
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
by Zhuqing Li
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jun 2023
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.
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All the Lovers in the Night
by Mieko Kawakami
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2023
Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and...
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