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The Wangs vs. the World
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipated Book A Frisky Book to Read for Fall Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and ...
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For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha’s lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they’d settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son’s acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an ...
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What We Were Promised
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After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city.One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suite...
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A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will al...
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China Rich Girlfriend
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, h...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND BOOKPAGELook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.An expansive, eye-opening novel that captures the vibrancy of China today Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—but ...
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The Nest
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Rich People Problems
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREsquire Best Books of 2017Kirkus Best Fictional Families of 2017 Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan) and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family driven by fortune, an ex-wife...
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The Bride Test
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Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mo...
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A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.Every woman has a secret life . . .Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of he...
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The Kiss Quotient
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A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases — a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way l...
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Chemistry by Weike Wang
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
American Royals by Katharine McGee
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Pool House Someone Lied Someone Died by Tasmina Perry
Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-lee Chai
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
The Wives by LAUREN WEISBERGER
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Train Man by Hitori Nakano
The Party by Elizabeth Day
The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
The Darlings by Cristina Alger
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel
Primates of Park Avenue by Winisty Martin