Anjali Banerjee

IMAGINARY MEN, 2005, 256 pp.
Lina Ray is a young Bengali-American matchmaker who still mourns the death of her fiancé. She is in India for her sisters wedding and comes up with a story to satisfy her parents who want to see her wedded as well. She invents an imaginary suitor only to have her plan back fire when she begins to fall for Raja Prasad, a handsome Indian prince.
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Athur Golden

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, 1997, 434 pp.
At nine years old, Chiyo is sold to a wealthy geisha house in Gion where she learns how to dance, play a musical instrument, gracefully wear her new costumes and apply elaborate make-up. Although most importantly she must learn to beguile powerful men, she begins to secretly pine for an unattainable one.
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Jessica Hall

THE DEEPEST EDGE, 2003, 345 pp.
This romantic suspense story revolves around museum curator Valence St. Charles. She is trying to persuade T’ang Jian-Shan to lend her his priceless Asian sword collection when she gets mixed up in a deadly game of assassins. Needless to say she looks for more than just protection from Jian-Shan.
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Gish Jen

THE LOVE WIFE, 2004, 400 pp.
Mama Wong is the novel’s ruling spirit. After fleeing China because she was too “spicy” a girl to get along with the Communists, she finds success in the U.S., only to see her son, Carnegie, engaged to an Anglo. She offers Carnegie and his fiancé Blondie a million dollars to call off the wedding. Her offer was too late though because Carnegie already impulsively decided to adopt an abandoned Asian baby girl and he feels destined to stay together.
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Rattawut Lapcharoensap

SIGHTSEEING, 2005, 208 pp.
A collection of stories set in modern-day Thailand portrays this Asian country on the turning point between the ancient and the modern. It focuses on the subjects of family relations, romance, generational conflicts, and cultural changes.
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Elizabeth Lowell

JADE ISLAND, 1998, 375 pp.
The knowledgeable and dazzling Lianne Blakely has never been accepted by her Chinese relatives, but that doesn't stop them from exploiting her photographic memory and obsession with jade. When she is told to become acquainted with Kyle Donovan, a prominent gem trader, she is not ready for the sexual energy that bubbles between them.
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Gautam Malkani

LONDONSTANI, 2006, 320 pp.
Stressed with the cultural and religious lifestyles of modern London, eighteen-year-old South Asian Jas finds himself a target because of his gang membership, his unpromising education, and an attraction to a woman of a different race.
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Mei Ng

EATING CHINESE FOOD NAKED, 1998, 252 pp.
Columbia University graduate Ruby Lee returns home to Queens, New York, to temporarily stay with her parents. Living in the four rooms behind her fathers laundry mat, Ruby finds herself unable to escape issues past, present and future as she battles with her identity as a Chinese American woman, daughter, sister, friend, and lover.
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Mary Jo Putney

THE CHINA BRIDE, 2000, 310 pp.
Troth Mei-Lian Montgomery is the orphaned daughter of a Scottish father and a Chinese concubine mother. Although her elderly uncle takes her in, he forces her to adopt the dress and name of a man in order to spy on the foreigners who throng Canton's trading companies in search of fortunes in tea and precious goods. It is there Troth encounters Kyle Renbourne, Viscount of Maxwell, who discovers quickly that she is in disguise and falls in love with her.
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Lucia St. Clair Robinson

THE TOKAIDO ROAD, 1991, 513 pp.
After her fathers’ forced suicide, the illegitimate Lady Asano vows to enact revenge on the powerful Lord Kira. Adopting the nickname “Cat”, she cuts her hair and disguises herself as a priest and begins her journey of vengeance on the Tokaido Road to Kyoto, where she hopes to find the help she needs to start an uprising against Kira. She was not expecting to make friends and find love on the way.
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Katherine Stone

PEARL MOON, 1995, 444 pp.
Beginning with an account of a young Chinese girl and an American flyer on leave from the Vietnam War and their week of wondrous love, this novel tells the tale of two girls meeting in present day Hong Kong and their connection with the building of a new hotel, The Jade Palace. They soon discover many past connections they have in common and finding true love is just one of them.
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