April Fantasy Theme: Asian and Middle Eastern Flavoured Fantasy
Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, by Barry Hughart
50 votes, 22.7%
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn, by Alison Goodman
47 votes, 21.4%
Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn
39 votes, 17.7%
The Bhagavad Gita, by Anonymous
25 votes, 11.4%
Monkey: A Folk Novel of China, by Wu Cheng'en
18 votes, 8.2%
The Desert of Souls, by Howard Andrew Jones
16 votes, 7.3%
Snake Agent, by Liz Williams
15 votes, 6.8%
Heart of the Ronin, by Travis Heermann
10 votes, 4.5%
So out of eight "Asian and Middle Eastern flavored fantasies," only two are by actual Asians, and both of those predate Shakespeare. I know very little modern Asian literature gets translated into English, but surely there are enough that you don't need six white guys to fill out the list. Where're Uehashi, Miyabe and Ogiwara?
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