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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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139 participants (1,010 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
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

Natural Beauty

Ling Ling Huang

257 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Severance by Ling Ma

Severance

Ling Ma

9 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2018

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective medium-paced
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

The River Has Roots

Amal El-Mohtar

3 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Anthony Shadid

12 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 2012

nonfiction biography history memoir reflective slow-paced
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

Scattered All Over the Earth

Scattered All Over the Earth Trilogy #1

Yōko Tawada

219 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction dystopian literary science fiction adventurous reflective medium-paced
The Rivals by Jane Pek

The Rivals

Claudia Lin #2

Jane Pek

416 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction lgbtqia+ mystery adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection by Tiffany Moon

Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection

Tiffany Moon

7 hours • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki

317 pages • hardcover • 2014

fiction contemporary graphic novel young adult emotional reflective fast-paced
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala

Death in the Cards

Mia P. Manansala

352 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction mystery young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Chlorine by Jade Song

Chlorine

Jade Song

256 pages • digital • 2023

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary dark tense medium-paced