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Light Burned, Book 3

Light Burned, Book 3

Prophecies collide in this explosive finale to USA Today bestselling author Jayci Lee’s epic romantasy series. Can one obstinate fox spirit save the worlds, even if it means destroying her...

Three Shattered Souls, Book 3

Three Shattered Souls, Book 3

Some betrayals cut deeper than blades. The Blades were never supposed to survive this long. But after the battle in Quu Harbor, escaping is no longer enough. The most dangerous...

King Foretold, Book 2

King Foretold, Book 2

Korean folklore and modern culture entwine in this epic fantasy about a reluctant heroine who must deny her fated love to battle the dark forces that threaten to end her...

Nine Tailed, Book 1

Nine Tailed, Book 1

An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in...

Wrath of the Talon, Book 2

Wrath of the Talon, Book 2

Everyone thinks the Reaper of Sunpo―eighteen-year-old assassin Shin Lina―is dead. The only ones who know the truth are her cherished little sister and Haneul Rui, the icily gorgeous Dokkaebi Emperor,...

Give Me a Reason

Give Me a Reason

A K-drama actress gets her second chance at love with the man she left to save her family, if only she can work up the courage to risk her heart...

Four Ruined Realms, Book 2

Four Ruined Realms, Book 2

The King of Yusan may be the greatest liar of them all. His sister’s ring is in his sights, and he will do anything to get what he wants. Even...

Last of the Talons, Book 1

Last of the Talons, Book 1

After the destruction of her entire Talon gang, eighteen-year-old Shin Lina―the Reaper of Sunpo―is forced to become a living, breathing weapon for the kingdom’s most-feared crime lord. All that keeps...

Reign of the Talon, Book 3

Reign of the Talon, Book 3

How do you kill a prophecy? The Prophecy has arrived…and with her, war. A prisoner caged within the walls of her own mind, the once-fierce assassin known as Shin Lina...

Five Broken Blades, Book 1

Five Broken Blades, Book 1

It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective:...

The God and the Gwisin, Book 2

The God and the Gwisin, Book 2

In this swoony sequel to The God and the Gumiho, a trickster god must work with his reincarnated lost love to solve his brother’s murder on board a luxury underworld...

The God and the Gumiho, Book 1

The God and the Gumiho, Book 1

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before...

Flashlight

Flashlight

One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked...

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How...

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of...

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

A memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

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Green Frog

Green Frog

From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical—a pair of...

Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat

Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat

This heartwarming Korean bestseller tells the story of a mysterious diary left in a laundromat brings together patrons from all walks of life. Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat is a place where...

Yolk

Yolk

A funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities. Jayne and June Baek are...

Emergency Contact

Emergency Contact

A novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory. For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while...

Permanent Record

Permanent Record

An unforgettable new romance about how social media influences relationships every day. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at...

Midnight, Water City, Book 1

Midnight, Water City, Book 1

Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man...

Clay Walls

Clay Walls

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants...

Your Utopia

Your Utopia

A fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires. Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and...

Shanghailanders

Shanghailanders

From a wise observer “of the ever-complicated matters of the heart” (Kirstin Chen) comes an unforgettable debut novel about a changing family in a changing world. To the outside world,...

The Eyes Are the Best Part

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won’s life tumbles into...

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History

A poignant memoir by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the...

The Magical Language of Others

The Magical Language of Others

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents...

My Brilliant Life

My Brilliant Life

Ae-ran Kim’s My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times....

The Liberators

The Liberators

Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father’s blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law,...

Love in the Big City

Love in the Big City

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young...

White Mulberry

White Mulberry

Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and...

The Evening Hero

The Evening Hero

A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to...

Beasts of a Little Land

Beasts of a Little Land

An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school...

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history. One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent...

A Crane Among Wolves

A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today’s world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope...

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old-Tradition

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old-Tradition

100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes that show the range of traditional and modern Chinese vegan cuisine from the creator of The Plant-Based Wok. When Hannah Che decided to become a...

A Little Life

A Little Life

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some...

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy,...

The Fox Maidens

The Fox Maidens

From the bestselling, award-winning creator of Almost American Girl comes an epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology. Perfect for fans...

The Silence of Bones

The Silence of Bones

June Hur’s elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth,...

The Red Palace

The Red Palace

June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace―a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of...

The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times

The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times

Ilyon Woo’s The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America’s most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country’s notions...

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting...

The Forest of Stolen Girls

The Forest of Stolen Girls

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur’s The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page. 1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani’s family...

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism,...

Famous Adopted People

Famous Adopted People

“Stephens’ darkly comic, sharply irreverent, undeniably wise ‘Great Adoption Novel’ is an unexpectedly timely, not-to-be-missed, epic wild ride.” ―Booklist, *Starred Review* Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan...

Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year

Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year

From Korean American author-illustrator Aram Kim, Tomorrow is New Year’s Day follows a little girl sharing the fun customs of Seollal―the Korean Lunar New Year―with her classmates. Seollal, the Korean...

Tell Me the Dream Again

Tell Me the Dream Again

Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling...

Sea Change

Sea Change

“Immersively beautiful…. A kaleidoscope of originality.” —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is Okay Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend...

I’ll Be the One

I’ll Be the One

The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating confidence and body positivity—perfect for fans of Jenny...

Flip the Script

Flip the Script

In this simmering, joyous novel, I’ll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn’t working, it’s...

Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business

Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business

Fresh Off the Boat meets Junie B. Jones in this first novel in an adorable new chapter book series about Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl who is starting...

Nuclear Family

Nuclear Family

Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts...

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart

From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American–“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her...

Free Food for Millionaires

Free Food for Millionaires

In this “mesmerizing” novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan’s inner circle (USA Today). Meet Casey Han:...

Pachinko

Pachinko

Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja,...

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