Asian Reads

A high school senior navigates messy boys, messier relationships, and the struggle of never quite living up to her Taiwanese mother's expectation...

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bu...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between gene...

An immigrant takes the blame for his nephew's mistake, changing both of their lives, in this "acutely observed" novel by a prize-winning author (Pu...

Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911...

A modern Judy Blume meets Jenny Han."[A] complex coming-of-age story about identity and sexuality."--The New York Times A high school senior naviga...

Fourteen-year-old Shanti's home is in a village in eastern India, where her parents work in the rice fields. She attends school in a town forty kil...

Civil War is raging in America and fifteen-year-old Thomas Beck doesn't quite fit in. He's neither black nor white, slave nor free, and yet, Thomas...

If cursed is the hand that kills, then it wouldn't matter if that same hand stole, would it? Tulen feels doubly cursed, forced to serve the bratty ...

A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Ch...

“Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist ...

HIS LIFE WAS FULL OF ACCIDENTS; IT STARTED WITH THE ACCIDENT TO HIS FATHER S TRAIN. THAT ACCIDENT BESTOWED THE NAME GOGOL UPON HIM. THEY COULD NEVE...

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink be...

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST A...

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog. C...