#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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103 participants (258 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
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Vera Wong #1

Jesse Q. Sutanto

338 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata

247 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror literary magical realism challenging dark medium-paced
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

211 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

11 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary funny reflective medium-paced
A Copycat Conundrum by Lisa Yee

A Copycat Conundrum

Lisa Yee

5 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions) user-added

fiction childrens
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao

9 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Cat + Gamer, Volume 6 by Wataru Nadatani

Cat + Gamer, Volume 6

猫暮らしのゲーマーさん / Neko Gurashi no Gamer-san #6

Wataru Nadatani

168 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary manga funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Yiyun Li

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti

The Parted Earth

Anjali Enjeti

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Sailor Moon 1 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) by Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Moon 1 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection)

美少女戦士セーラームーン 完全版 Bishōjo senshi Sailor Moon Kanzenban #1

Naoko Takeuchi

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction fantasy manga young adult adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced