I tend to lean into literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs/biographies, thrillers, & books written from Asian authors. I’m open to any and all genres + would love to add more sci-fi, splatterpunk, fantasy, and/or romance.
Any suggestions are welcome, but no need to provide an overview/synopsis – all I need is a book title and genre, and maybe why you think I’d like it based on my fable account overview/recent read list below. 🙂
Recent Reads + Books I’ve Loved:
- All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whittaker
- The Girl with Seven Names – Hyeonseo Lee
- The Fox Wife – Yangsze Choo
- Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
- The Comfort of Crows – Margaret Renki
- People Who Eat Darkness – Richard Lloyd Parry
- The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafek
- Ultra Processed People – Chris van O'Farrell
- The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
- Crying in H-Mart – Michelle Zauner
- The Woman in the Cabin – Becca Day
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea – Axie Oh
- Summer Moon – Samantha Sotto Yambao
Fable Account Overview: “Reflective Reader – you savor personal narratives and sociocultural explorations. You’ve found human and cultural insights in these stores, a map you follow through life."
Thanks in advance!!
by writesymphonies
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Poppy War and Yellowface
Since you liked Yangsze Choo and Axie Oh:
A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa – fantasy based on Chinese mythology of fox spirits.
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho – magical realism based on Chinese Malaysian folklore.
The Girl and the Ghost / Hamra and the Jungle of Memories – magical realism based on Malaysian folklore.
And the River Drags Her Down by Jiyun Yun – creepily gothic (but more sad than scary), based on Korean folklore.
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen – a different take on mermaid stories, magical realism based on West African water spirit mythology and set during the slave trade era.
Thrillers: the Modesty Blaise books by Peter O’Donnell.
Romance and pulp adventure: The Will Darling Adventures by KJ Charles.
SF: The Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Raadchai books by Ann Leckie, and the Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein.
Fantasy: The World of the Five Gods series by Lois McMaster Bujold, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, and The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard.
Romance mystery Victorian melodrama pastiche: the Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters.
Classic mysteries: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries by Dorothy Sayers.
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* by Loung Ung — a memoir.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura.
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.