Additionally you may use the “Search by Rating” or “Search by Genre” to the right.
Additionally you may use the “Search by Rating” or “Search by Genre” on the bottom of this page.
What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Ayoyama ARC from Hanover Square Press for an honest reviewBook Blurb: “What are you looking for?” This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most...
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata – AudioBook Blurb: Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they...
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel – 429 pagesARC from Lake Union - Amazon Publishing and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music…1940....
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim – 416 pages ARC from Ecco Books for a honest review Book Blurb: Beasts of a Little Land: An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a...
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie – 464 pages Book Blurb: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will...
Universe of Two by Stephen P. Kiernan – 448 pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with...
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See –374 pages Book Blurb: Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s...
Some of my Historical Fiction Faves - India and Asia City of Tranquil Light Snow Flower and The Secret Fan The Japanese Lover The Last Year of the War The Island of Sea Women White Chrysanthemum Unbound Love and Other Consolation Prizes...
Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert – 309 pages ARC courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest reviewBook Blurb: The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise...
A Dictionary Of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton – 292 pages Book Blurb: When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn’t believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished...