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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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139 participants (999 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

All books added
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki #2

Baek Se-hee

224 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey

Inconvenient Daughter

Lauren J. Sharkey

232 pages • digital • 2020

fiction contemporary race challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

Curtis Chin

291 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

Record of a Night Too Brief

Hiromi Kawakami

160 pages • paperback • 1996

fiction literary short stories mysterious reflective medium-paced
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen

Anzu and the Realm of Darkness

Mai K. Nguyen

256 pages • digital • 2024

fiction fantasy graphic novel middle grade adventurous emotional fast-paced
The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance by Matt Ortile

The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance

Matt Ortile

9 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

The Stardust Grail

Yume Kitasei

311 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Boy, the Mountain, and the Serpent Who Ate the Moon by Caris Avendaño Cruz

The Boy, the Mountain, and the Serpent Who Ate the Moon

Caris Avendaño Cruz

320 pages • digital • 2025

fiction fantasy middle grade
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Mooncakes

Suzanne Walker

256 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy graphic novel lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

The Dragon Republic

The Poppy War #2

R.F. Kuang

688 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark tense medium-paced