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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 Young Will Remember

by Eve J. Chung

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel about a correspondent trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War, and the women who help her find her way home, from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Shandong.

When I found the courage to lift my head, I ...

Flashlight

A Novel

by Susan Choi

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by ...

Tailbone

A Novel

by Che Yeun

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A fierce and gorgeous debut novel about a teenager who runs away from her abusive home to live in a boarding house for single women as a global financial crash threatens the people of Seoul.

We Do Not Part

A Novel

by Han Kang

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter of Korean history.

Sisters in Yellow

A Novel

by Mieko Kawakami

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s.

Palaver

A Novel

by Bryan Washington

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.

Seesaw Monster

A Novel

by Kotaro Isaka

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2027

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping novel mixing mythology, family drama, espionage, and high technology from the international bestselling author of Bullet Train, already in development for a major film starring Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek.

Mina's Matchbox

A Novel

by Yoko Ogawa

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Night of Baba Yaga

by Akira Otani, Sam Bett

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Ghost Girl, Banana

A Novel

by Wiz Wharton

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut ...

Hunchback

A Novel

by Saou Ichikawa

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a provocative, defiant debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—"a darkly funny portrait of disability" (Japan Times)

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