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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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139 participants (978 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

For readers who'd like to stretch themselves with a numeric goal of reading more Asian authors, this challenge is for you! (For those who would like 9 prompts to diversify their reading of Asian authors, look up the #ReadAsianAuthors2025 challenge). 

Challenge Books

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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

12 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history memoir travel informative medium-paced
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Karen Hao

17 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction economics politics technology informative reflective medium-paced
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Sa'ed Atshan

274 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

240 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani

No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

Behrouz Boochani

416 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional sad slow-paced
Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto

Diaries of a Terrorist

Christopher Soto

80 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

Jessica J. Lee

5 hours, 59 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Intimate: An American Family Photo Album by Paisley Rekdal

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album

Paisley Rekdal

300 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction art memoir poetry adventurous informative slow-paced
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir

Kao Kalia Yang

272 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

336 pages • hardcover • 2000

fiction historical literary emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced