#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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133 participants (790 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
Tea and Murder: Stories of the Xuya Universe: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls & The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Tea and Murder: Stories of the Xuya Universe: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls & The Tea Master and the Detective

Aliette de Bodard

6 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim

The God and the Gumiho

Fate's Thread #1

Sophie Kim

416 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary fantasy adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

The Heart Principle

The Kiss Quotient #3

Helen Hoang

339 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful medium-paced
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien

368 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So

260 pages • hardcover • 2021 user-added

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary short stories emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro

535 pages • hardcover • 1995

fiction contemporary literary challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
Flirting With Disaster by Naina Kumar

Flirting With Disaster

Naina Kumar

300 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful medium-paced
Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes by Sunita Sah

Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes

Sunita Sah

280 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health self help hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki

Anne of Greenville

Mariko Tamaki

7 hours, 57 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum

301 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary literary hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced