#20BooksByAsianAuthors

ktlee_writes Host

140 participants (1,025 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).

#20BooksByAsianAuthors

ktlee_writes Host

140 participants (1,025 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge Books

All books added

Time Loops & Meet Cutes
Jackie Lau with Cindy Kay (Narrator), Raymond J. Lee (Narrator)

9 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2025 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance speculative fiction funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Time Loops & Meet Cutes

Jackie Lau with Cindy Kay (Narrator), Raymond J. Lee (Narrator)

9 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction contemporary romance speculative fiction funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

The Lost Queen
Aimee Phan

368 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy young adult adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

The Lost Queen

Aimee Phan

368 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction contemporary fantasy young adult adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

After Dark
Haruki Murakami with Jay Rubin (Translator)

191 pages • hardcover • 2004 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism mysterious reflective medium-paced

After Dark

Haruki Murakami with Jay Rubin (Translator)

191 pages • hardcover • 2004

fiction literary magical realism mysterious reflective medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem
Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator), Luke Daniels (Narrator)

13 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator), Luke Daniels (Narrator)

13 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2006

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Banu Mushtaq with Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)

243 pages • digital • 2024 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Banu Mushtaq with Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)

243 pages • digital • 2024

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced

You Started It
Jackie Khalilieh

320 pages • paperback • 2025 (editions)

fiction romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

You Started It

Jackie Khalilieh

320 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Chemistry
Weike Wang

224 pages • hardcover • 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Chemistry

Weike Wang

224 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction contemporary literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

The Prince and the Dressmaker
Jen Wang

277 pages • digital • 2018 (editions)

fiction graphic novel historical lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

The Prince and the Dressmaker

Jen Wang

277 pages • digital • 2018

fiction graphic novel historical lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Lunar Boy
Jes Wibowo, Cin Wibowo

240 pages • digital • 2024 (editions)

fiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ middle grade science fiction emotional hopeful medium-paced

Lunar Boy

Jes Wibowo, Cin Wibowo

240 pages • digital • 2024

fiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ middle grade science fiction emotional hopeful medium-paced

Incense and Sensibility
The Rajes #3

Sonali Dev

400 pages • digital • 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional reflective slow-paced

Incense and Sensibility

The Rajes #3

Sonali Dev

400 pages • digital • 2021

fiction contemporary romance emotional reflective slow-paced

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