Asian American Voices

by Renee Ahdieh

Fiction
In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.

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by Lyla Lee

Fiction
Follows Skye Shin’s experiences as a plus-sized teen girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition to become the next big K-pop star.

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by Jung Yun

Fiction
Kyung Cho’s home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family’s future: all he wants is to provide the home that was denied him to their son.

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by Cathy Park Hong

Nonfiction
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts the thorny subject of Asian American status in the United States, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America.

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by Hena Khan

Fiction
A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family’s vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community. (chapter book)

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by George Takei

Nonfiction
The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.

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by Kao Kalia Yang

Fiction
Paj Ntaub, a young Hmong American girl, spends a busy year with her family in their new home, and seeks a way to share the beauty of the world with a grieving neighbor. (picture book)

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by Supriya Kelkar

Fiction
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home and at school. (chapter book)

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by Mary H.K. Choi

Fiction
After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other’s emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

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by Bao Phi

Fiction
Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes a note about the phoenix and the Sarabha. (picture book)

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by Kelly Yang

Fiction
Mia Tang’s parents take a job managing a rundown motel, While her mother (who was an engineer) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and copes with demanding customers and other recent immigrants. (chapter book)

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by Jenny Han

Fiction
Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent

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by Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction
From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara–an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities–watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside.

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by Frances Cha

Fiction
Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a ‘room salon’, an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood.

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by Jim DiBartolo

Nonfiction
Presents a biography of the martial arts legend, describing his childhood in Hong Kong and how it was shaped by World War II, and his success as an international star.

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by Emily X.R. Pan

Fiction
After her mother’s suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

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by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Nonfiction
Describes the popular street cook’s life, including working in his family’s restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

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by Celeste Ng

Fiction 
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

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by S.K. Ali

Fiction
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.

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by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.

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by Yangze Choo

Fiction
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.

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by Gidget Roceles Jimenez

Nonfiction
Fun facts about the spirit of the Philippines and what makes this country and its people wonderfully unique. This is a book for families to enjoy together. 

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by Mitali Perkins

Fiction
From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.

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by Gloria Chao

Fiction 
MIT freshman Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents’ expectations, but she soon finds that she cannot keep secrets hidden from her parents if she wants to truly be herself.

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by Ilima Loomis

Fiction
In this cumulative rhyme in the style of “The House That Jack Built,” a family celebrates Hawaii and its culture while serving poi at a luau. (picture book)

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by Kiku Hughes

Fiction 
Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.

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by Jessica Kim

Fiction
When eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids’ comedy camp, she is mistaken for another student so she decides to play the part. (chapter book)

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by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Fiction
Kiko Himura grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast.

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by Charles Yu

Fiction
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

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by Ocean Vuong

Fiction
Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original – poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.

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by Sayak Murata

Fiction
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. 

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by F. Zia

Fiction Nonfiction
Aneel and his grandfather, Dada-ji, tell stories, use their imaginations, and make delicious roti, a traditional Indian flatbread. (picture book)

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by Helen Zia

Nonfiction
The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist Revolution–a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.

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by C. Pam Zhang

Fiction
Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past.

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by Andrew Fukuda

Fiction
Two unlikely pen pals, a Japanese-American boy and a Jewish-French girl, exchange letters tracking their dreams, growing friendship and wrenching encounters with the realities of World War II.

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by Min Jin Lee

Fiction
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought.

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