Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1499)
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Lailah's Lunchbox : A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi EN
Country: Asia / 
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Description:
*2019 Daybreak Children's Picture Book Award -- Recognizing Muslim Women's Contributions to Literature* *Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People 2016, a cooperative Project of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children's Book Council* *Featured Book of the Month, Anti-Defamation League* *American Library Association Notable Book for Children 2016* * Skipping Stones Honor 2016* *International Literacy Association Choices Reading List* Lailah is in a new school in a new country, thousands of miles from her old home, and missing her old friends. When Ramadan be... continue
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The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi EN
Country: Asia / United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Description:
In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia that “sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny” (Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree), three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood. “A game-changing new voice in epic fantasy . . . There are no Chosen Ones here, only bad choices and blood.”—Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Autostraddle Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the b... continue
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The Wink of the Mona Lisa and Other Stories from the Gulf by Mohammad al Murr EN
Country: Asia / United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Description:
The author lifts away the façade to find drama, humour and pathos in life, death and the humdrum if daily existence, creating memorable characters whose thoughts and actions endear them to us.
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Faebound (Faebound, Book 1) by Saara El-Arifi EN
Country: Asia / United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Description:
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Exquisite fantasy, with a complex, mysterious, and sumptuous world of elves, fae, and gloriously compelling romance - so enthralling, it has wrapped its magic around my heart and set it alight' HANNAH KANER, Sunday Times bestselling author of Godkiller 'A romantic fantasy of epic proportions, crackling with magic and passion' SAMANTHA SHANNON, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree 'A devastatingly romantic and breathtaking fantasy - opulent and sweeping, this book is unforgettable' TASHA SURI, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne 'A l... continue
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My Mother’s Secret by J.L. Witterick EN
TaiwanDescription:
Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a make... continue
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Description:
From the the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers’ treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s... continue
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The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw EN
Description:
Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnny's factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a hero—a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his so... continue
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Dragon Springs Road : A Novel by Janie Chang EN
Description:
From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan’s search for her long-lost mother. That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized me that my mother had gone away never to return . . . In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese... continue
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La fábrica de sedas by Tash Aw ES
Description:
Un viaje de placer a un remoto archipiélago del estrecho de Malaca, conocido como «las Siete Sirenas», es el epicentro del brillante debut literario de Tash Aw, que, siguiendo la huella de grandes escritores británicos de temas coloniales como Joseph Conrad o Somerset Maugham, explora la Malasia rural de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El grupo viajero lo componen Lim Seng Chin, más conocido como Johnny Lim, director de la famosa Fábrica de Sedas Harmony; su esposa, Snow Soong, la mujer más hermosa del valle; su mejor y único amigo, Peter Wormwood, un inglés que llegó a Malasia buscando el para... continue