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Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 564 times as asian)
avg rating 4.34 — 624,232 ratings — published 2017
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 409 times as asian)
avg rating 3.67 — 373,368 ratings — published 2016
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as asian)
avg rating 3.99 — 729,075 ratings — published 1987
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 380 times as asian)
avg rating 3.65 — 380,812 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as asian)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,110,070 ratings — published 1997
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 364 times as asian)
avg rating 4.23 — 597,788 ratings — published 2021
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as asian)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,570 ratings — published 1989
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as asian)
avg rating 3.66 — 690,981 ratings — published 2015
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as asian)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,028,158 ratings — published 2023
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 319 times as asian)
avg rating 3.91 — 548,140 ratings — published 2013
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as asian)
avg rating 4.12 — 548,306 ratings — published 2002
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as asian)
avg rating 4.16 — 188,946 ratings — published 2016
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 310 times as asian)
avg rating 4.16 — 480,872 ratings — published 2018
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 275 times as asian)
avg rating 4.09 — 387,540 ratings — published 2005
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as asian)
avg rating 4.07 — 126,883 ratings — published 2022
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as asian)
avg rating 4.01 — 405,347 ratings — published 2019
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as asian)
avg rating 3.89 — 129,152 ratings — published 1988
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as asian)
avg rating 4.08 — 95,239 ratings — published 2022
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as asian)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,801 ratings — published 1994
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as asian)
avg rating 3.70 — 138,583 ratings — published 1994
Almond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as asian)
avg rating 4.14 — 177,875 ratings — published 2017
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 200 times as asian)
avg rating 3.95 — 339,808 ratings — published 2009
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as asian)
avg rating 4.18 — 104,093 ratings — published 2021
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as asian)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,757 ratings — published 2021
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as asian)
avg rating 4.27 — 74,693 ratings — published 2014
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as asian)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,308 ratings — published 2005
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as asian)
avg rating 3.94 — 252,996 ratings — published 1948
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
by (shelved 176 times as asian)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,966 ratings — published 2015
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as asian)
avg rating 4.02 — 109,465 ratings — published 2021
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as asian)
avg rating 3.64 — 187,501 ratings — published 2010
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as asian)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,378 ratings — published 2013
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as asian)
avg rating 3.83 — 611,059 ratings — published 2014
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as asian)
avg rating 3.89 — 84,336 ratings — published 2022
Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as asian)
avg rating 3.92 — 48,214 ratings — published 2008
Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as asian)
avg rating 3.85 — 81,008 ratings — published 2008
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 161 times as asian)
avg rating 4.08 — 493,207 ratings — published 2006
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as asian)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,122 ratings — published 2013
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as asian)
avg rating 3.74 — 188,793 ratings — published 2004
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as asian)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,539 ratings — published 2022
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as asian)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,706 ratings — published 2009
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as asian)
avg rating 3.21 — 98,595 ratings — published 2018
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as asian)
avg rating 4.01 — 137,849 ratings — published 2015
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as asian)
avg rating 4.32 — 167,920 ratings — published 2019
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
by (shelved 147 times as asian)
avg rating 3.95 — 184,491 ratings — published 2017
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as asian)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,764 ratings — published 2020
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as asian)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,911 ratings — published 2020
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as asian)
avg rating 3.56 — 41,284 ratings — published 1948
Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as asian)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,559 ratings — published 2019
A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as asian)
avg rating 3.81 — 36,598 ratings — published 2022
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as asian)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,072 ratings — published 2023
“What looks to Westerners like Asian deference, in other words, is actually a deeply felt concern for the sensibilities of others. As the psychologist Harris Bond observes, “It is only those from an explicit tradition who would label [the Asian] mode of discourse ‘selfeffacement.’ Within this indirect tradition it might be labeled ‘relationship honouring.’ ” And relationship honoring leads to social dynamics that can seem remarkable from a Western perspective. It’s because of relationship honoring, for example, that social anxiety disorder in Japan, known as taijin kyofusho, takes the form not of excessive worry about embarrassing oneself, as it does in the United States, but of embarrassing others.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no difference between 'white' and 'color,' I have white-washed my own sense of self. It means that I know more about what it is to be a white person than what it is to be Asian, and I am a stranger among both.”
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