THE SHORT VERSION
The quick picks
OUR LENS
How we chose
We picked widely discussed works that open different literary doors; this is a starting shelf, not a continent-wide canon.
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THE DETAILS
Our three picks
Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata
A compact Japanese novel whose unusual narrator makes work, conformity, and belonging feel newly strange.
The Vegetarian — Han Kang
A powerful Korean novel that turns one personal refusal into a larger confrontation with family and control.
The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin
A Chinese science-fiction landmark for readers who enjoy cosmic scale and hard questions.
ONE LAST THING
Before you choose
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