by May-Lee Chai

Guili and her husband left good jobs in China to come to America "only to discover everywhere they looked, there were Chinese who'd come earlier, started mindless businesses, and made a fortune."

by Jade Chang

Bad business decisions, coupled with the Great Recession of 2008, force the now penniless Charles Wang, patriarch and self-made cosmetics tycoon, out on a cross-country journey with his family - "a troupe of Chinese Okies fleeing a New Age Dust Bowl." 

by Jenny Han

Lara Jean writes plenty of love letters, but she never sends them. It's just her way of moving on from a crush. When her secret box of letters goes missing and she discovers they've been mailed, she has to come face-to-face with her past and in the process learn more about her future.

by Helen Hoang

Econometrician Stella Lane feels more comfortable with statistics than people. Her mother is pressuring her to focus more on her love life, but Stella has issues about getting intimate with men. The solution? She decides to hire an escort to tutor her in sex and dating.

by Vanessa Hua

Scarlett fought her way to prosperity from the poverty of her native Chinese village and the clutches of her controlling mother. But when an affair with her married boss results in a pregnancy - and the ultrasound reveals the son he's always longed for - Boss Yeung sends Scarlett to Los Angeles to be cared for in a secret maternity home.

by Gish Jen

A meddlesome Chinese-American mother bequeaths a Chinese nanny to her ambivalent son and his big blonde wife in this darkly comic fairy tale about cultural assimilation, biological destiny and domestic warfare.

by Ha Jin

Investigative reporter Feng Danlin works for a Chinese news agency in New York. His editor assigns him to unravel the true story behind a blockbuster novel by his ex-wife, Yan Haili, who dumped him on the day he traveled to America to join her.

by Rachel Khong

When Ruth's mom, Annie, asks her to extend her visit home for Christmas by an entire year, Ruth figures she may as well. She won't be leaving much behind in San Francisco, besides the still-stinging breakup with her fiance.

by Kevin Kwan

When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. 

by Jean Kwok

Charlie Wong can't catch a break: instead of taking after her late, beautiful dancer mother, she's awkward and clumsy, and unlike her gifted younger sister, Lisa, she's a terrible student.

by Min Jin Lee

 22-year-old Casey Han, graduates magna cum laude in economics from Princeton with a taste for expensive clothes and an "enviable golf handicap," but hasn't found a "real" job yet, so her father kicks her out of his house. 

by Lillian Li

When Chinese American immigrant Bobby Han died, entrusting his Beijing Duck House restaurant to the next generation, he couldn't have fathomed how quickly his 30-year-old legacy would go up in flames. 

by Roselle Lim

When chef Natalie's mother passes away, she hasn't been back to San Francisco in years, but the responsibility for settling her mother's affairs falls squarely on her shoulders.

by Bich Minh Nguyen

Van and Linny Luong are temperamental opposites. Diligent, unassuming Van has found her calling as an immigration lawyer in the midwestern suburbs, but no one knows that her picture-perfect marriage has suddenly evaporated. Her younger sister, Linny, fashion-forward and socially adept, lives in Chicago where she has drifted into a dead-end affair with a married man.

by Ruth L. Ozeki

Japanese-American documentary filmmaker Jane Takagi Little seems to have found the perfect job producing My American Wife, a program sponsored by American beef exporters that introduces Japanese housewives to "typical, wholesome" American wives, their families and their beef recipes. 

by Patricia Park

Jane Re has never felt like she fit in, and not just because she's a half-Korean orphan in the "all-Korean, all the time" enclave of Flushing, Queens. She's still stocking shelves in her uncle's grocery store while her overachieving peers have moved on to graduate school and high-profile finance jobs. 

by Amy Tan

An electric exploration of two warring cultures fused in love, focused on the lives of four Chinese women -- who emigrated, in their youth, at various times, to San Francisco -- and their very American 30-ish daughters.

by Weike Wang

A Chinese-American graduate student finds the scientific method inadequate for understanding her parents, her boyfriend, or herself. The optimist sees the glass as half-full, the pessimist half-empty, explains the narrator, while a chemist sees it as half-liquid, half-gaseous, probably poisonous.

by Sung J. Woo

David Kim, formerly known as Dae Joon, has just turned 12 years old and moved to New Jersey from Korea. After five years of living with his mother and his older, moody sister, he must reconnect with a father he does not remember and get used to his American life, which consists of going to school and working at his parents' shop, East Meets West.