Recommending All My Books by Asian Authors for Asian American Heritage Month

sorry I've been off the grid for so long, it's been such a wild, wild year so far and will only get wilder from here on out, probably. but here's some book recommendations of novels, short story collections, poetry and nonfiction etc, by East and Southeast Asian authors since it's nearly the end of AAPI Heritage Month!!! books in translation from writers in Asian countries and Asian American writers, I have them all. the "book looks" I refer to are on my Instagram grid

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Timestamps
1:00 Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
3:25 Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-Nan
4:17 Exhalation by Ted Chiang
5:13 Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
6:44 Floating, Brillant, Gone by Franny Choi
8:47 The Hidden Girl & Other Stories by Ken Liu
10:39 Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki
12:32 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
14:02 Chemistry by Weike Wang
15:39 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
17:10 Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

18:09 Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
20:11 The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
22:45 Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
25:00 The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
26:06 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo
28:07 New Waves by Kevin Nguyen
29:53 Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

[themusicsnob]

Super hyped to read some of these that I haven’t picked up before 😊 especially Last Night at the Telegraph Club because it has been on my TBR for a couple years now

[thoughts]

i missed you. <3 glad to see your back

[availandco]

nice to see you sunny! thanks for the recs ❤

[literaryleila]

i'm so happy to see you back sunny !! what a great list ! may i also add that i love your top it looks really good on you :)

[familia.liliaceae]

I have been meaning to read Memory Police for long omg

[friendly.felidae]

Definitely purchasing a few of these! I have a few queer asian-authoured books to add as recommendations myself: "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao (reimagining of a historical empresses as a mech fighter), "The Summer" by Choi Eunyoung (slice of life story of a lesbian), "She who became the sun" by shelley parker-chan (reimagining of an emperor with supernatural elements), and "If you still recognize me" by Cynthia So (slice of life story about an internet pen pal crush and rediscovering a childhood friend).

[MizzThang]

You have a great voice for audiobooks❤

[nataliedc]

thanks so much 4 the recs!!! <3 <3

[rozowafemme]

I recommend to you “A tale for the time being” by Ruth Ozeki, one of my favourites ❤

[themurderbotfeed]

Do you have storygraph? Im quitting amazon and would like to follow you in book social media lol

[anamikasrivastav]

Why didn’t you include any south asian? (No hate)

[ladybird]

Did you consider reading books by PI authors given its AA ~PI~ Heritage Month or were you just like nah…lemme gatekeep lmao