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Yangsze Choo writes sweeping and dramatic Asian-influenced fantasy that draws upon the culturally diverse history of Southeast Asia, particularly during its colonial period. |
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Japanese-born, Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is a master of prose, setting, and characterization. Dignity, order, and deception are common themes in Ishiguro’s evocative and complex realistic and speculative fiction novels. |
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi incorporates magical realism into his moving and engaging literary fiction novellas. His books explore relationships, regrets, and reconciliations in a unique setting—a Japanese coffeehouse that offers customers a brief window into their past or future. |
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R. F. (Rebecca F.) Kuang writes richly detailed and action-packed historical fantasy and military fantasy as well as nonfiction and darkly humorous satirical novels set in the modern world. Her work is moving, compelling, descriptive, and thought-provoking. |
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Kevin Kwan writes fun and witty novels that follow the exploits of wealthy Asian characters who range from catty to charming. His stories center on social status, romance, inheritance, and complicated family dynamics. |
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Angie Kim writes compelling and intricately plotted literary mysteries involving first and second generation Asian immigrants in the United States and families with special needs children. Her richly detailed novels are thought-provoking, suspenseful, and reflective. |
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Haruki Murakami combines the mundane and surreal in atmospheric literary surrealist fiction that features introspective characters whose lives take unprecedented turns. Murakami writes novels, short stories, graphic novels, and nonfiction. |
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Sayaka Murata's slim, character-driven, literary fiction novels address complex psychological issues like alienation, family dynamics, expectations, sexuality, and childhood sexual abuse. |
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Etaf Rum writes richly detailed, compelling, moving, and thought-provoking literary fiction novels featuring strong female characters of Southwest Asian and North African ancestry living in the United States who break from expectations. |
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Matthew Salesses writes humorous nonlinear satire, literary, surrealist, and psychological fiction featuring Asian characters that are flawed, introspective, and likable. In both his fiction and nonfiction books about the writing craft, Salesses' prose is witty, engaging, and compelling. |
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Jesse Q. Sutanto’s funny and intricately plotted books revolve around likable female characters. Her popular jargon-filled relationship fiction, romantic comedies, and cozy mysteries are witty and upbeat while her psychological thrillers are fast-paced and suspenseful. |
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Thrity Umrigar writes auto-biographical nonfiction and moving relationship fiction about friendship, romance, and family dynamics in contemporary India. Her leisurely paced and intricately plotted stories center around strong female characters facing difficult choices while dealing with loss, betrayal, and poverty. |
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Abraham Verghese writes moving and evocative family sagas based on his experiences working as a doctor in Ethiopia. His riveting stories immerse readers in the drama of doctors, nurses, and patients. Verghese also writes historical and literary fiction as well as nonfiction about science and his own personal experiences. |
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Hanya Yanagihara writes haunting character-driven literary fiction that shows complex, flawed, or unlikeable characters impacted by past trauma. Her despairing and disturbing stories draw on a long range of human malice and suffering. |
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