I went looking for an official list of countries in Asia, and my world view has been expanded to understand Russia and most of the Middle East are included in Asia. I don't know what I thought they were ...
Here are a few I've read:
Here are a few I've read:
- Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (what I'm reading right now)
- The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost and many others by Jamie Ford
- The Joy Luck Club (and other novels) by Amy Tan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (I'll be honest - I didn't finish it)
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson (graphic novel)
- My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame (graphic novel)
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (and other novels) by Lisa See
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (nonfiction)
- The Star Maker by Laurence Yep
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (and the scandal later!)
- The Wise Fool by Shahrukh Husain & Micha Archer
- Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan
- Nicola Yoon (YA)
- Mindy Kaling (nonfiction)
- Gene Luen Yang (graphic novels)
- Arcady's Goal by Eugene Yelchin
And a list of lists:
- 5 Korean novels you should read now on Vanity Fair
- 10 award-winning books by Asian authors you should read on Culture Trip
- 10 best Asian novels of all time on The Telegraph
- 10 Japanese books you need to read on Culture Trip
- 12 Asian writers who should be taught in every high school on Mic
- Fiction set in Asia (that teens might enjoy) by the Seattle Public Library
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