Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai 

Cup of Light and Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones

Flowers for Mei-Ling by Lorraine Lachs

Joy Luck Club and Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

Waiting by Ha Jin

Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Samurai’s Garden, Women of the Silk and Language of the Threads by Gail Tsukiyama

To Swim Across the World by Francis and Ginger Parks

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

The Binding Chair: a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Fortune is a Woman by Elizabeth Adler

Concubine’s Tattoo by Laura Joh Rowland, and others in the Sano Ishiro series

Interior by Lisa See

Noble House by James Clavell

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

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