#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).

#20BooksByAsianAuthors

ktlee_writes Host

133 participants (790 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge Books

All books added

Dead-End Memories: Stories by Banana Yoshimoto

Dead-End Memories: Stories
Banana Yoshimoto with Asa Yoneda (Translator)

235 pages • digital • 2003 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

Dead-End Memories: Stories

Banana Yoshimoto with Asa Yoneda (Translator)

235 pages • digital • 2003

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

The Contractors
Out of Line Collection #4

Lisa Ko

24 pages • digital • 2020 (editions)

fiction short stories dark medium-paced

The Contractors

Out of Line Collection #4

Lisa Ko

24 pages • digital • 2020

fiction short stories dark medium-paced

Detective Aunty
Kausar Khan Investigates #1

Uzma Jalaluddin

320 pages • paperback • 2025 (editions)

fiction mystery mysterious medium-paced

Detective Aunty

Kausar Khan Investigates #1

Uzma Jalaluddin

320 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction mystery mysterious medium-paced

People Change
Vivek Shraya with Vivek Shraya (Narrator)

1 hour, 52 minutes • audio • 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced

People Change

Vivek Shraya with Vivek Shraya (Narrator)

1 hour, 52 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa with Alison Watts (Translator)

216 pages • paperback • 2013 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Sweet Bean Paste

Durian Sukegawa with Alison Watts (Translator)

216 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
Anthony Christian Ocampo

217 pages • hardcover • 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons

Anthony Christian Ocampo

217 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Almost American Girl
Robin Ha with Robin Ha (Illustrator)

240 pages • hardcover • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir young adult emotional reflective medium-paced

Almost American Girl

Robin Ha with Robin Ha (Illustrator)

240 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction graphic novel memoir young adult emotional reflective medium-paced

The Black Tides of Heaven
Tensorate #1

Neon Yang

224 pages • digital • 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional fast-paced

The Black Tides of Heaven

Tensorate #1

Neon Yang

224 pages • digital • 2017

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional fast-paced

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez

522 pages • digital • 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

522 pages • digital • 2022

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Part of Your World
Part of Your World #1

Abby Jimenez with Zachary Webber (Narrator), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

10 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Part of Your World

Part of Your World #1

Abby Jimenez with Zachary Webber (Narrator), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

10 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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