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#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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130 participants (611 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
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

The Cat Who Saved Books

The Cat Who... #1

Sōsuke Natsukawa

198 pages • digital • 2017

fiction fantasy magical realism adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

113 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Simone by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Simone

Viet Thanh Nguyen

48 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction childrens emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes

A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South

Cinelle Barnes

189 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

Make Room for Love

Darcy Liao

344 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Arsenic and Adobo

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1

Mia P. Manansala

9 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

176 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Map of Salt and Stars

Zeyn Joukhadar

368 pages • digital • 2018

fiction literary speculative fiction adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced
apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha

apparitions (nines)

Nat Raha

80 pages • digital • 2024 user-added

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ poetry
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Eric Nguyen

304 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced