Winter Pasture: One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders

By Li Juan; translated by Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan

Winter Pasture: One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders

This newly translated memoir has long been loved in the author’s native land.

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Might the true impact of canonical writing come from its effects on the human brain?

Klara and the Sun: A Novel

Though opaque in places, this moving tale eventually lets in the light.

Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel

This sixth installment in the bestselling series packs the same outsized punch as its predecessors.

The Upstairs House: A Novel

Ghosts real or imagined haunt a new mother in the grips of postpartum psychosis.

Interior Chinatown

By Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown

This gentle satire of the TV industry pokes holes in Asian-American stereotypes and tropes.

Home Making

By Lee Matalone

Home Making

This debut uses structure as metaphor to take on the themes of adoption, identity, and femininity.

The Slaughterman’s Daughter: A Novel

By Yaniv Iczkovits; translated by Orr Scharf

The Slaughterman’s Daughter: A Novel

A fable-like tale of a Jewish woman who dared to defy an entire empire.