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Literary agents who want books like Pachinko

8 agents have named Pachinko as a comparable title on their wishlist, and 3 are open to queries. If you’re pitching something in this lane, these are the agents to know. Always confirm an agent’s submission window before you query.

8 agents3 open to queries
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Catherine Cho
Paper Literary
Open to queries

This is her core list. She wants novels with the emotional heft and word-of-mouth magnetism of book-club favourites — stories readers finish and immediately nee

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Maria Brannan
Greyhound Literary
Open to queries

Maria appreciates expansive historical novels where character interiority drives the story as much as period detail, as well as retellings of classical myth and

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Mina Hamedi
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Open to queries

Intergenerational stories rooted in specific cultural worlds — particularly Turkish, Iranian, and broader Middle Eastern or Asian contexts, though she is explic

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Danya Kukafka
Aevitas Creative Management
Status unverified

She also makes room for ambitious, sprawling literary novels — multigenerational stories, big social canvases, or deeply immersive character studies — when the

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Hillary Jacobson
CAA
Status unverified

Sweeping multigenerational narratives with a strong, distinctive hook. She wants emotional scope paired with a premise compelling enough to stand on its own. Di

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Lane Clarke
Ultra Literary
Closed

Interested in two lanes: sweeping generational sagas and sharp societal commentary. Both should provoke a strong emotional response. Also drawn to fiction that

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Lindsay Auld
Writers House
Closed

The adult comp list is extensive and reveals an appetite for prestige commercial fiction: multigenerational family sagas, psychologically layered thrillers, lit

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Rach Crawford
Wolf Literary
Closed

Crawford describes herself as newly enthusiastic about sprawling intergenerational stories, especially where family saga intersects with other wishlist themes (

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