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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in East Asia (except China)

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  • Danielle Trussoni
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world's greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the ...
  • Yoko Ogawa
    Hardcover: 08/13/2024
     
    From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel ...
  • Akira Otani, Sam Bett
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect...
  • Muriel Barbery
    Hardcover: 01/30/2024
     
    From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel ...
  • Skull Water: A Novel
    Heinz Insu Fenkl
    Paperback: 12/26/2023
     
    A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South ...
  • Laurel Fantauzzo
    Paperback: 11/21/2023
     
    Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen ...
  • Franny Choi
    Paperback: 11/07/2023
     
    From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and ...

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