World Literature Books by BIPOC Authors
- Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2025
A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic...
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he...
- by Yoko Ogawa
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them....
- Fiction, Horror Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power. The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark...
- by Bora Chung
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Kim Ronyoung
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2022
Despite an embarrassing, alcoholic mother, Noomi Wadia is loathe to change her own hard-partying ways simply because it’s what’s expected in Kamalpur high society. As her peers begin to marry...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, Friendship Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2017
A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan. Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is...