The most popular East Asia books of 2026

Bug Ego, Vol. 1

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Night Train

Xu Zechen

The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara

Chūya Nakahara

Same Sun Same Moon

Yokai Monsters By the Great Masters of Japanese Woodblock Printing

Philippe Charlier

Kokoda Track 1942–43 Japanese Defeat in Papua

Peter Williams

China’s Date Debate

Emily Matson

Before I Knew I Loved You

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The China Question Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear

Ho-fung Hung

China's Aristocratic Age

Yuri Pines

Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia

Jack Meng-Tat Chia

Tokyo Story A Guide to the City's Best Cultural Hangouts, Shops, Bars and Eateries

Steve Wide, Michelle Mackintosh

Shanghai

Michael Dillon

Now Is Now Tokyo Street Photography

The Wall Dancers Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

Yi-Ling Liu

Colonial Surveillance Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan's Empire

Midori Ogasawara

Justice with a Smile A Novel

Osamu Dazai

After Terrorism The US–Japan Alliance in the Post-9/11 Security Dilemma

Ryūji Hattori

Patchwork Dolls

Ysabelle Cheung

Taiwan A People's History

Evan N. Dawley

War Plan Taiwan OPLAN 5077 and the U. S. Struggle for the Pacific

Rowan Allport

Performing Transgression Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

Ashton Lazarus, Assistant Professor World Languages and Cultures University of Utah Ashton Lazarus

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Last Years of British Hong Kong

Delena Wright

Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951

Wai-Yin Christina Wong