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 Unaccustomed EarthBest Price: $14.80 Jhumpa Lahiri just keeps getting better and better. "Unaccustomed Earth" is her third... |  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A NovelBest Price: $5.71 This is one of the best books I've read in years. A truly different kind of story of a... |  The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)Best Price: $8.41 This was the first book I read by Thrity Umrigar. Although I have been there on multiple... |  The Namesake: A NovelBest Price: $2.99 I couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. The book is centered around Gogol - a... |  The Joy Luck ClubBest Price: $2.34 In the book "The Joy Luck Club" written by Amy Tan, there are tons of Chinese cultured... |
 The Inheritance of LossBest Price: $1.50 Desai has a wonderful way with words, both poetic descriptions and dialogue. The book describes... |  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsBest Price: $2.75 The women ancestors of a geeky Chinese-American girl pile up impressive resumes, no worries ! ... |  Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted DaughterBest Price: $3.26 I couldn't put this book down, being 1/2 chinese myself I loved the historical comments found in... |  The Kite Runner Illustrated EditionBest Price: $16.15 I loved this story. It is well written and kept me very interested. I could hardly put it down.... |  Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $3.42 I did not enjoy this book in the least. plotlines were ludicrous, characters were smarmy, and... |
 Free Food for MillionairesBest Price: $6.25 Lee's novel tells an intriguing story, but there were moments when the writing and characters... |  The Palace of Illusions: A NovelBest Price: $13.49 I found out about this book when I was searching for books on the Mahabharata. I had never read... |  The Last Empress: A NovelBest Price: $4.15 Fiction based on History, brings the main Character, The Last Empress to life...Was a very good... |  Empress OrchidBest Price: $0.01 This book is alright. It's definitely entertaining and Anchee Min's dual role as historian is... |  Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery (Red Princess Mysteries)Best Price: $7.55 What a writer ! Lisa See educates without being pedantic. In Dragon Bones, she has created a... |
 When the Emperor Was DivineBest Price: $3.22 WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE is nothing short of remarkable. In one hundred and forty-four very... |  The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $3.00 This book is quite well written and worth reading but not quite good enough to get a 5 star... |  A Person of Interest: A NovelBest Price: $8.45 Dr. Lee works at a second rate university's mathematics department in which its professors know... |  The Kitchen God's WifeBest Price: $3.74 My wife and I will often read a novel to each other if it has plenty of drama, and tells a great... |  Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & RecipesBest Price: $7.23 Hardcover edition. My mom bought this book for me after I wouldn't stop raving about it after... |
 Free Food for MillionairesBest Price: $8.30 Lee's novel tells an intriguing story, but there were moments when the writing and characters... |  A Free Life: A NovelBest Price: $7.99 This may be Ha Jin's "first American novel" but he is already well-established as a... |  The Hindi-Bindi ClubBest Price: $5.00 This book is a must read for the non resident Indian. Indians raised in America rarely... |  The Hundred Secret SensesBest Price: $0.79 First 50 pages or so are bit hard to digest but as you start to get involved into the story, the... |  Native SpeakerBest Price: $3.97 Chang-Rae Lee wrote his first novel, "Native Speaker", which describes the experience... |
 The Joy Luck ClubBest Price: $13.57 The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan is a very unique novel that I would recommend anyone to... |  No-No BoyBest Price: $4.00 I read this book, and couldn't figure out what Okada was trying to tell the reader. He is all... |  Love Marriage: A NovelBest Price: $7.75 I don't really know what to say about this book- I don't even know why it was entitled... |  Imaginary MenBest Price: $4.75 Imaginary Men centers around Lina Ray, a San Francisco-based matchmaker whose own lovelife has... |  Wild Ginger: A NovelBest Price: $1.95 Extremely intense book and well written. At first, it seemed a bit extreme, but after talking... |
 Invisible LivesBest Price: $1.00 Looking for books in the same genre and style of writing as Bharati Mukherjee or Chitra Banerjee... |  Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean BoyhoodBest Price: $10.30 While reading this book I got the impression that it was a memoir. It is actally not so please... |  A Gesture Life: A NovelBest Price: $3.75 Ah, the unreliable narrator. Lee has an excellent command of the English language, as always... |  Copper SunBest Price: $7.25 Title: Copper Sun Author: Sharon Draper Publisher and Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,... |  Dreaming WaterBest Price: $5.98 This is the first book I've read by this author and it was passed to me by a friend who had... |
 Evening Is the Whole Day: A NovelBest Price: $6.25 This is the kind of novel that haunts you and colonizes your mind for months after putting it... |  Folktales on Stage: Children's Plays for Reader's Theater (or Readers Theatre), With 16 Play Scripts From World Folk and Fairy Tales and Legends, Including Asian, African, Middle Eastern, European, and Native AmericanBest Price: $12.39 Do you want an engaging activity to use with elementary students that fosters reading,... |  China BoyBest Price: $6.00 Gus Lee's 'China Boy' was on my school's book club list this year. It was the first book I read... |  Snakeskin ShamisenBest Price: $6.76 The other three reviews have done a good job of summarizing the plot in this book. I would just... |  The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery (Mei Wang Mysteries)Best Price: $5.00 I picked this up because I am interested in China and in the past have been a mystery fanatic. ... |
 Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $1.97 The four winds may change direction, and histories may shift at any given moment, but Amy Tan's,... |  Brothers: A NovelBest Price: $6.90 A preposterous story set in a specific historical period in China. If only the history were... |  Girl in a Box (Rei Shimura Mysteries)Best Price: $6.00 I don't like to read spy novels. I like mysteries that center around a cultural component. I... |  Good ThingsBest Price: $0.40 And for Deidre McIntosh this is a motto to be remembered. When she suddenly finds everything in... |  The Moon Lady (Aladdin Picture Books)Best Price: $2.80 Beautiful illustrations will entrance children of all ages as Amy Tan shows she can entertain... |
 China MenBest Price: $5.50 China Men, written as a male companion piece to her female-centered The Woman Warrior, focuses... |  Thousand Pieces of Gold (Bluestreak)Best Price: $4.14 Every author has their way of writing a book. I won't criticize like how other reader's have on... |  A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: StoriesBest Price: $7.88 Warning: Begin reading "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" at the BEGINNING of a... |  In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating FathersBest Price: $3.92 This book contains a collection of African American Poems about fathers. We also enjoyed this... |  The Opposite of FateBest Price: $7.66 The book is wonderful, so interesting. It is rather like Eat,Pray,Love with a chinese twist. ... |
 Woman WarriorBest Price: $10.90 I feel that Kingston's story was very imformative about the chinese culture and their way of... |  The Dowry BrideBest Price: $3.64 I wanted to really, really love this work. I was so excited to read about romance between two... |  Queen of DreamsBest Price: $5.80 This book was full of beautiful potential, but the characters where completely without true... |  Donald DukBest Price: $5.99 pretty interesting but a kind of bad ending. the book has an interesting beginning though. |  Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian WritersBest Price: $8.33 I picked this book up over the weekend and have not been able to put it down. I refuse! While I... |
 Mona in the Promised Land: A NovelBest Price: $4.85 Important note: Read Jen's first novel FIRST, and then the end of Mona won't seem too slapdash... |  Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese CatBest Price: $3.26 A WONDERFULLY TOLD CAT-TAIL! THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE LOVELY AND APPROPRIATE TO THE PLAYFUL THEME... | |||
Asian American Books
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