The Greatest Asian Postmodern Books of All Time

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
840 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima 1949 Japanese Japanese
858 The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abé 1962 Japanese Japanese
1201 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
1375 The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima 1965 Japanese Japanese
1723 1Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
1991 All about H. Hatterr G. V. Desani 1948 Indian English
2353 The Box Man Kobo Abé 1973 Japanese Japanese
2427 Soul Mountain Xingjian Gao 1990 Chinese Chinese
2876 River of Fire Qurratulain Hyder 1959 Indian Urdu
3405 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
5237 Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee 1993 Indian English
5418 A Dictionary Of Maqiao Han Shaogong 1996 Chinese Chinese
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
6189 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami 2006 Japanese Japanese
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6350 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
6508 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
6766 Notes Of A Desolate Man Chu Tʽien-wen 1994 Taiwanese Chinese
7055 Golden Age Wang Xiaobo 1997 Chinese Chinese
7130 Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan 2002 Indonesian Indonesian
7710 Mono Kuu Hitobito Yō Henmi 1994 Japanese Unknown
8497 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8639 Somersault Kenzaburō Ōe 1999 Japanese Japanese
8849 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
9227 Han Hinkon Makoto Yuasa 2008 Japanese Unknown
10949 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
11060 Coin Locker Babies Ryū Murakami 1980 Japanese Japanese
11308 The Book Of Sins Chen Xiwo 2014 Chinese Chinese
13257 公墓 Mu Shiying 1933 Chinese Chinese
13318 Records Of Orchard City Shi Tuo 1946 Chinese Chinese
13804 The Drunkard Liu Yichang 1963 Chinese Chinese
14585 Lai Suo Huang Fan 1987 Chinese Chinese
14617 Chess King Shi-Kuo Chang 1988 Chinese Chinese
14646 Fin De Siècle Splendor Chu Tʽien-wen 1990 Chinese Chinese
14650 Tadanori Yokoo Daido Moriyama 2006 Japanese Japanese
14985 Chinaman Shehan Karunatilaka 2010 Sri Lankan English
17164 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17164 Leave Me Alone Murong Xuecun 2002 Chinese Chinese
17164 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17164 Hear The Wind Sing And Pinball 1973 村上春樹 1979 Japanese Japanese
17164 Tokyo These Days Taiyō Matsumoto 2024 Japanese Unknown
17164 The City And Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17164 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17164 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17164 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17164 Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai 1997 Japanese Japanese
17164 The Gray House Mariam Petrosyan 2009 Armenian Russian
17164 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese