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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 688,765 ratings
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The Namesake
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Interpreter of Maladies
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The Woman Warrior
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3.73 avg rating — 32,187 ratings
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 375,462 ratings
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The Kitchen God's Wife
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 85,177 ratings
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American Born Chinese
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 96,359 ratings
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,839 ratings
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 303,945 ratings
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The Hundred Secret Senses
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45,128 ratings
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Native Speaker
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3.75 avg rating — 8,407 ratings
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No-No Boy
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3.93 avg rating — 6,768 ratings
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Girl in Translation
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 56,906 ratings
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M. Butterfly
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3.93 avg rating — 14,313 ratings
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
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4.16 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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When the Emperor Was Divine
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3.80 avg rating — 27,775 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 3,203,541 ratings
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Peony in Love
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 48,681 ratings
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 119,873 ratings
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Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 65,368 ratings
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Pachinko
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4.33 avg rating — 494,879 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Bone
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3.57 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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First Love Language
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Stefany Valentine (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.70 avg rating — 18,465 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
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Andrew X. Pham (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 6,426 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Jennifer 8. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 5,057 ratings
score: 853,
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Descendant of the Crane
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Joan He (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 11,305 ratings
score: 852,
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A Gesture Life
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3.79 avg rating — 4,560 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 188,549 ratings
score: 826,
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Everything I Never Told You
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 564,459 ratings
score: 815,
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 123,895 ratings
score: 767,
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 45,521 ratings
score: 739,
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Kira-Kira
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3.96 avg rating — 27,103 ratings
score: 736,
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The Last Chinese Chef
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Nicole Mones (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 9,182 ratings
score: 731,
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Asking for a Friend
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Kara H.L. Chen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 700,
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The Samurai's Garden
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4.15 avg rating — 26,538 ratings
score: 661,
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 132,669 ratings
score: 648,
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The Refugees
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 20,798 ratings
score: 643,
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Amy Chua (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 52,626 ratings
score: 642,
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My Year of Meats
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 19,719 ratings
score: 640,
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Asian American Dreams
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4.17 avg rating — 997 ratings
score: 604,
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China Boy
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3.69 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
score: 600,
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,204,862 ratings
score: 579,
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Chasing Athens
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Marissa Tejada (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 85 ratings
score: 572,
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Fifth Chinese Daughter
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3.89 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
score: 542,
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
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3.91 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
score: 541,
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Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
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Kevin Kwan (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 502,983 ratings
score: 536,
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The Best We Could Do
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4.36 avg rating — 36,571 ratings
score: 514,
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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4.04 avg rating — 318,380 ratings
score: 507,
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Here and Now and Then
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Mike Chen (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 10,535 ratings
score: 499,
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
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3.55 avg rating — 4,016 ratings
score: 493,
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Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune
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Roselle Lim (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 8,861 ratings
score: 484,
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Know My Name
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4.70 avg rating — 210,260 ratings
score: 478,
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.23 avg rating — 44,612 ratings
score: 463,
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Song of the Exile
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Kiana Davenport (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
score: 459,
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Fresh Off the Boat
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3.68 avg rating — 13,360 ratings
score: 453,
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When the Elephants Dance
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Tess Uriza Holthe (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 3,645 ratings
score: 441,
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Honolulu
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 24,491 ratings
score: 440,
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A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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3.53 avg rating — 1,007 ratings
score: 435,
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Shortcomings
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3.63 avg rating — 15,072 ratings
score: 423,
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Nisei Daughter
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3.90 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
score: 401,
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes
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3.86 avg rating — 4,374 ratings
score: 400,
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Nora & Kettle (Paper Stars, #1)
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Lauren Nicolle Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
score: 400,
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The Mistress of Spices
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 14,325 ratings
score: 385,
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Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 17,412 ratings
score: 383,
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
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Phuc Tran (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,008 ratings
score: 383,
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I'm the One That I Want
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3.69 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
score: 381,
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Hunger
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Lan Samantha Chang (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
score: 367,
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Kitchen Chinese
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Ann Mah (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 2,257 ratings
score: 358,
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Dr. 2 (Issue 1)
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Peter Tieryas (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 357,
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Southland
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Nina Revoyr (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
score: 351,
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Mona in the Promised Land
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Gish Jen (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
score: 346,
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All You Can Ever Know
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Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 25,064 ratings
score: 344,
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How to Be an American Housewife
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Margaret Dilloway (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 13,441 ratings
score: 339,
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Dictee
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4.03 avg rating — 3,474 ratings
score: 331,
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The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America
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Garrett Hongo (Editor)
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score: 322,
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Exhalation
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4.28 avg rating — 95,316 ratings
score: 315,
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Days of Distraction
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Alexandra Chang (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 6,233 ratings
score: 315,
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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Charles Yu (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 18,790 ratings
score: 313,
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YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
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Vickie Nam (Editor)
3.74 avg rating — 499 ratings
score: 311,
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Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
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3.86 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Shadow Hero
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Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 8,389 ratings
score: 308,
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All Over Creation
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 7,396 ratings
score: 302,
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Dogeaters
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3.60 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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4.20 avg rating — 41,842 ratings
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Donald Duk
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3.07 avg rating — 656 ratings
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 38,420 ratings
score: 297,
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Blu's Hanging
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3.88 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
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4.26 avg rating — 454,127 ratings
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Empress of All Seasons
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Emiko Jean (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 5,154 ratings
score: 287,
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The Wangs vs. the World
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Jade Chang (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 17,102 ratings
score: 284,
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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4.17 avg rating — 5,152 ratings
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Waiting
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3.54 avg rating — 22,664 ratings
score: 282,
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Green Island
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Shawna Yang Ryan (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
score: 276,
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The Valley of Amazement
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 43,687 ratings
score: 275,
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Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,534 ratings
score: 270,
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker
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3.53 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Red Azalea: A Memoir
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3.84 avg rating — 10,438 ratings
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Citizen 13660
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4.03 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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