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Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month — browse our reading list

May 9, 2022 By Library Staff

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, so Smiley Library is offering a sampling of our books as a celebration of those Americans of Asian and Pacific islands descent. Read summaries and reviews of the selected books, listed below, by accessing our catalog through the books’ links.

We also recommend https://asianpacificheritage.gov/ to connect with online events, exhibits, and collections.

A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).

NON-FICTION

Rise : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now / Yang, Jeff

See no stranger : a memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love / Kaur, Valarie

Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / Hong, Cathy Park

Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people / Zia, Helen

The loneliest Americans / Kang, Jay Caspian

The truths we hold : an American journey / Harris, Kamala

Speak, Okinawa : a memoir / Brina, Elizabeth Miki

New kings of the world : dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop / Bhutto, Fatima

The baddest bitch in the room : a memoir / Chang, Sophia

Cookbooks

The wok : recipes and techniques / López-Alt, J. Kenji
The Korean vegan cookbook : reflections and recipes from Omma’s kitchen / Lee Molinaro, Joanne
The Red Boat fish sauce cookbook : beloved recipes from the family behind the purest fish sauce / Pham, Cuong

Poetry, Essays, Literature

Dear memory : letters on writing, silence, and grief / Chang, Victoria
Yellow rain : poems / Vang, Mai Der
A god at thedoor / Doshi, Tishani
All the flowers kneeling / Tran, Paul
Why not me? / Kaling, Mindy
The impossible city : a Hong Kong memoir / Cheung, Karen
The best American poetry 2021 / Smith, Tracy K.
Time is amother / Vuong, Ocean
Beast at every threshold : poems / Wee, Natalie
The curious thing : poems / Lim, Sandra
Murakami T : the t–shirts Ilove / Murakami, Haruki
Vessel : a memoir / Cai, Chongda
They called us enemy / Takei, George (graphic novel)
Rebels against the Raj : Western fighters for India’s freedom / Guha, Ramachandra

FICTION

Red thread of fate / Butler, Lyn Liao
The family Chao : a novel / Chang, Lan Samantha
Activities of daily living : a novel / Chen, Lisa
Edge case : a novel / Chin, YZ
Spirits abroad : stories / Cho, Zen
Skinship : stories / Choi, Yoon
Disorientation / Chou, Elaine Hsieh
Seoulmates / Frederick, Jen
Fiona and Jane / Ho, Jean Chen
Tales from the cafe : a novel / Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
People from my neighborhood : stories / Kawakami, Hiromi
The cabinet / Kim, Ŏn-su
Lemon / Kwŏn, Yŏ-sŏn
Leave society / Lin, Tao
The wedding party / Liu, Xinwu
A place for us / Mirza, Fatima Farheen
Earthlings : a novel / Murata, Sayaka
My annihilation / Nakamura, Fuminori
Love in the big city : a novel / Park, Sang Young
She who became the sun / Parker-Chan, Shelley
The ministry of utmost happiness / Roy, Arundhati
Gold diggers / Sathian, Sanjena
Untold night and day : a novel / Suah, Bae
Hao : stories / Ye, Chun
Interior Chinatown / Yu, Charles
Tokyo Ueno station / Yū, Miri
The disaster tourist : a novel / Yun, Ko-ŭn
How much of these hills is gold / Zhang, C Pam

SCIENCE FICTION

Light years from home / Chen, Mike
Kundo wakes up / Hossain, Saad Z.
Sinopticon 2021 : a celebration of Chinese science fiction / Ni, Xueting Christine
The way spring arrives and other stories / Yu, Chen

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