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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Books with Discussion Guides, set in Asia

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  • Martyr!
    Martyr!: A Novel
    Kaveh Akbar
    Paperback: 12/31/2024
     
    A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks ...
  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 08/20/2024
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • Daughters of Shandong
    Eve J. Chung
    Hardcover: 05/07/2024
     
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the ...
  • The Women
    The Women: A Novel
    Kristin Hannah
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four ...
  • The Bandit Queens
    Parini Shroff
    Paperback: 01/09/2024
     
    A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other ...
  • Age of Vice
    Age of Vice: A Novel
    Deepti Kapoor
    Paperback: 01/02/2024
     
    This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can ...
  • The Covenant of Water
    Abraham Verghese
    Hardcover: 05/02/2023
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...

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