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25 past books matching Asian Fiction
A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about wartime espionage, family loyalties, and the consequences of difficult choices.
The Storm We Made
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · World War 2
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A national bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick, The Storm We Made is an “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair) set in Japanese-occupied Malaya. In 1945, Cecily Alcantara’s son has disappeared, her daughters face growing danger, and the secrets of her past as a spy threaten to destroy her family. As the consequences of her choices catch up with her, Cecily must find a way to protect those she loves. A strong match for readers drawn to historical fiction about wartime espionage, family loyalties, and the consequences of difficult choices.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
In this “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day.
Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.
A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an “Asia for Asians.” Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction—and she will do anything to save them.
Told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made spans years of pain, triumph, and perseverance. “The tenderness in its details, the ordinary ways that these characters love and laugh in the face of the extraordinary…Chan shows us, with clarity and care, how the truest mirror comes from the intimacy of human connection” (The New York Times Book Review).
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A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
Hawaii
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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James Michener's historical saga traces the Hawaiian Islands from their geological formation through centuries of settlement and cultural change. Through generations of Polynesian settlers, missionaries, merchants, and Asian immigrants, the novel explores the people and events that shaped Hawaii's history. A good pick for readers who appreciate sweeping historical fiction, multigenerational stories, and richly detailed settings.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. Based on exhaustive research and told in Michener’s immersive prose, Hawaii is the story of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity, live in harmony, and, ultimately, join together.
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A strong match for romantasy readers who like political marriages, enemies-to-lovers tension, epic warfare, and couples caught between love and duty.
This Shattered Tempest
Romantasy · Asian Fiction
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A New York Times bestselling trilogy concludes as a devastating attack tears Talasyn and Alaric apart and sends their rival nations toward a final battle, with a 4.3-star average from more than 400 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for romantasy readers who like political marriages, enemies-to-lovers tension, epic warfare, and couples caught between love and duty.
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The highly anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Hurricane Wars trilogy makes landfall— and as the winds of war sweep through Lir, Talasyn and Alaric must confront the truth of their hearts and decide whether duty or desire will lead them forward.
When the storm swallows the world, who will be left standing?
Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and Talasyn struggled to resist the undeniable pull between them, even as rising tensions forced them on opposite sides of a looming war. Hand in hand, they vanquished the cataclysmic threat of the Moonless Dark—and started to hope for a future together.
That hope is shattered when a devastating attack sets off a chain of events that tears them apart once more. Now, as two rival nations prepare for a final, decisive clash, the Master of the Shadowforged Legion and the last Lightweaver fight to find their way back to each other. But the odds are stacked against them, and time is running out…
Is love enough to rewrite destiny? Can a new beginning rise from the ruins of the past? Or are Alaric and Talasyn doomed to meet as enemies on one last battlefield? This explosive third and final book brings the beloved Hurricane Wars series to a stunning conclusion—where passion and power collide, and the fate of a divided world hangs in the balance.
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Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
Dragon Seed
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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From Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed follows farmer Ling Tan and his family as the Japanese invasion of China destroys their rural life and drives them into resistance, with a 4.1-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
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A New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth.
Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed. They're in for a shock, as the attackers lay waste to the country and install a puppet government designed to systematically carry out Japanese interests. In response, the Chinese farmers and their families form a resistance—which not only carries grave risk, but also breaks their vow of nonviolence, leading them to wonder if they're any different than their enemy.
Later adapted into a film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Dragon Seed is a brilliant and unflinching look at the horrors of war.
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Best for readers who like contemporary fiction about second chances, found community, family, and starting over.
The Butterfly Café
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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The Butterfly Café follows Jessie Yamada, an American woman in modern-day Tokyo who inherits a dilapidated café full of cats after her emotionally abusive husband dies and she discovers their marriage was built on secrets. With old friends and quirky neighbors, Jessie begins rebuilding life for herself and her daughter, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like contemporary fiction about second chances, found community, family, and starting over.
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Set in modern-day Tokyo, The Butterfly Café tells the story of American Jessie Yamada. When her emotionally-abusive husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, she is overcome with guilt because while making plans to leave him, she had often thought how much easier it would be for her if he were dead. Those feelings quickly shift to shock and anger after discovering her entire marriage had been built upon secrets and lies. Jessie unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated café full of cats, where with the help of old friends and quirky neighbors, she constructs a new life for herself and her daughter. But just when things finally seem to be going right, a twist of fate forces her to make a decision that will have a far-reaching impact on herself and all the people she loves.
The Butterfly Café explores issues such as friendship, family, and love. It shows how second chances at happiness can be found in unexpected ways.
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For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
Sea of Poppies
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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“A remarkably rich saga” by The Observer [London], A vivid saga of a ship's journey, the Ibis, through the Indian Ocean during the Opium Wars, with a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, and more, creating an unlikely dynasty, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,500 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
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The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.
With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
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Good for readers who like historical fiction about female friendship, cultural history, family secrets, and lives shaped by war.
The Island of Sea Women
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “A mesmerizing new historical novel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, On Korea's Jeju Island, two female divers from different backgrounds forge a friendship spanning decades, from Japanese colonialism through wars, as their bond faces cultural and political challenges, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 24,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like historical fiction about female friendship, cultural history, family secrets, and lives shaped by war.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger.
Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.
“This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
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The Third Son follows a boy whose first glimpse of kindness becomes the memory that carries him through war, family cruelty, and exile.
The Third Son
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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The Third Son follows a boy whose first glimpse of kindness becomes the memory that carries him through war, family cruelty, and exile. Saburo grows up in Japanese-occupied Taiwan as the unwanted son, fighting for education, love, and a future beyond the limits placed on him. This is historical fiction shaped by survival, longing, and the difficult hope of building a life across continents.
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"A boy growing up in Japanese-occupied Taiwan . . . will do anything to escape his tormenting family and reconnect with his first love . . . Compelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine).
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in 1940s Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It's there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of his oldest brother and greatest rival.
In Saburo, author Julie Wu has created an extraordinary character, determined to fight for everything he needs and wants, from food to education to his first love. The Third Son is a sparkling and moving story about a young boy with his head in the clouds who, against all odds, finds himself on the frontier of America's space program.
"Clear your schedule! The Third Son is your next obsessive read. Julie Wu's book reads like an instant classic." —Lydia Netzer, bestselling author of Shine Shine Shine
"I was entranced by this tale of an immigrant who boldly makes a new future for himself out of the wreckage of a Dickensian childhood. . . . A universal story that will have everyone cheering for Saburo and Yoshiko, two lovers whose faith in each other spans continents and oceans." —David Abrams, author of Fobbit
"Deceptively simple, deeply compelling . . . An unusually awful sibling rivalry, a stunningly pure and inspiring love story." —The Boston Globe
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As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for…
Banyan Moon
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Banyan Moon begins with a death that brings three generations of grief, resentment, and inheritance back under one roof. As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for readers drawn to layered family dramas about mothers, daughters, migration, and the past’s long reach.
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle
"Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.
Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.
Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond.
Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
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A Golden Age turns a nation’s fight for independence into an intimate story of motherhood, fear, and impossible loyalty.
A Golden Age
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A Golden Age turns a nation’s fight for independence into an intimate story of motherhood, fear, and impossible loyalty. In 1971 Dhaka, widow Rehana Haque tries to protect her children as their political convictions pull them into the violence of Bangladesh’s liberation war. This fits readers looking for historical fiction shaped by family devotion, revolution, moral choice, and quiet acts of courage.
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A deeply moving debut novel about a mother's all-consuming love for her two children, set against the backdrop of war and terror.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book
Rehana Haque, a young widow transplanted to the city of Dhaka in East Pakistan, is fiercely devoted to her adolescent children, Maya and Sohail. Both become fervent nationalists in the violent political turmoil which, in 1971, transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi independence. Fair-minded and intensely protective of her family, but not at all political, Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself.
A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone—from student protesters to the country's leaders, and rickshaw wallahs to the army's soldiers—must make. Rehana herself will face a cruel dilemma; the choice she makes is at once heartbreaking and true to the character we have come to love and respect.
"Eventful, exotic, intelligent, and romantic." —Entertainment Weekly
"Spellbinding . . . . [Tahima] Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments . . . that truly touch the heart." —San Francisco Chronicle
"By painting that portrait of maternal love, both powerful and overpowering, against the backdrop of a young generation's love for a new country, Anam gives her story an extra layer of poignancy." —San Jose Mercury News
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love turns first love into a plan, then lets real feelings ruin the outline.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Teen + Young Adult · Literary Fiction · Romance · Asian Fiction · RomCom
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love turns first love into a plan, then lets real feelings ruin the outline. Desi Lee excels at almost everything except romance, so she borrows the logic of Korean dramas to win over brooding artist Luca Drakos. This YA romantic comedy blends family warmth, cultural specificity, and chaotic schemes into a story about learning that love does not follow a script.
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A Seventeen.com Best YA Books of 2017
A Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of 2017
A New York Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens 2017
A 2018 CCBC Choices Book
"Hilarious." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Powerful messages of inclusion and acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That's how she became student body president. Varsity soccer star. And it's how she'll get into Stanford. But she's never had a boyfriend. In fact, she's a disaster at romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi finds guidance in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years—where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. It's a simple formula, and Desi is a quick study. Armed with her "K Drama Steps to True Love," Desi goes after the moody, elusive artist Luca Drakos—and boat rescues, love triangles, and staged car crashes ensue. But when the fun and games turn to true feels, Desi finds out that real love is about way more than just drama.
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A boy shut out from the destiny he longs for risks everything to claim a place in a world that says he does not belong.
Breath of the Dragon
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Asian Fiction
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A boy shut out from the destiny he longs for risks everything to claim a place in a world that says he does not belong. In Breath of the Dragon, Jun enters an elite tournament despite his father’s warnings and his lack of the dragon-gifted mark that defines true warriors. It fits readers looking for YA fantasy with martial competition, family wounds, and high stakes tied to honor and fate.
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The instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller!
A young warrior dreams of proving his worth in the elite Guardian Tournament, fighting not only for himself but the fate of everything he loves.
Sixteen-year-old Jun dreams of proving his worth as a warrior in the elite Guardian’s Tournament, held every six years to entrust the magical Scroll of Heaven to a new protector. Eager to prove his skills, Jun hopes that a win will restore his father’s pride—righting a horrible mistake that caused their banishment from his home, mother, and twin brother.
But Jun’s father strictly forbids him from participating. He believes there is no future in Jun honing his skills as a warrior, especially considering Jun is not breathmarked, born with a patch of dragon scales and blessed with special abilities like his twin. Determined to be the next Guardian, Jun stows away in the wagon of Chang and his daughter, Ren, performers on their way to the capital where the tournament will take place.
As Jun competes, he quickly realizes he may be fighting for not just a better life, but the fate of the country itself and the very survival of everyone he cares about.
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