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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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113 participants (334 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
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

How to Pronounce Knife

Souvankham Thammavongsa

179 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective fast-paced
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

Entitlement

Rumaan Alam

288 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai

Banyan Moon

Thao Thai

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

7 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton by Kazim Ali

Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton

Kazim Ali

294 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

314 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao

When Haru Was Here

Dustin Thao

293 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

Edward Lee

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
Vilest Things by Chloe Gong

Vilest Things

Flesh and False Gods #2

Chloe Gong

374 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim

The God and the Gumiho

Fate's Thread #1

Sophie Kim

416 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced