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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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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). 

Challenge Books

All books added
Sucker Punch: Essays by Scaachi Koul

Sucker Punch: Essays

Scaachi Koul

272 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction essays memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other by Viet Thanh Nguyen

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

Viet Thanh Nguyen

144 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction sociology medium-paced
My Heart of Rice: A Poetic Filipino American Experience by Ashley C. Lanuza

My Heart of Rice: A Poetic Filipino American Experience

Ashley C. Lanuza

178 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Siren Queen

Nghi Vo

282 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ magical realism dark mysterious medium-paced
Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala

Murder and Mamon

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #4

Mia P. Manansala

283 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

C Pam Zhang

288 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa

The Book Censor's Library

Bothayna Al-Essa

261 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction dystopian dark reflective medium-paced
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

19 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2007

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Jill Damatac

Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Jill Damatac

256 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir medium-paced
The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley by Linda Tamura

The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley

Linda Tamura

384 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction historical history challenging informative reflective medium-paced