Asian fiction favorites
Discover top Asian fiction favorites with our curated list of must-read books. Explore captivating stories, acclaimed authors, and beloved novels from across Asia.
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The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall …
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The Pillow Book of Sei Sh?nagon
by Sei ShĹŤnagon
One of the great classics of Japanese literature, "The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is by far our most detailed source of factual material on …
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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author …
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A Loyal Character Dancer
by Qiu Xiaolong
The second book in the Inspector Chen investigations Inspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. …
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Waiting
by Ha Jin
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • National Book Award Winner • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book From the widely acclaimed …
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
by Yu Hua
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: here is Yu Hua’s unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in …
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In the Miso Soup
by Ryu Murakami
"Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths." -- The New York Times From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director …
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Mistress Oriku
by Matsutaro Kawaguchi
A sensitive, compassionate story of the indomitable Mistress Oriku
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The Girl Who Played Go
by Shan Sa
As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, …
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The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki
Four daughters of an old merchant family unknowingly face the end of a gentler way of life in Osaka, Japan in 1938.