#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
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

113 pages • 2022 • 27 editions

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

Simone

Viet Thanh Nguyen

48 pages • 2024 • 1 edition

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 • 2020 • 3 editions

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

Make Room for Love

Darcy Liao

344 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

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

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

9h 20m • 2021 • 15 editions

fiction mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Map of Salt and Stars

Zeyn Joukhadar

368 pages • 2018 • 37 editions

fiction literary speculative fiction adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha

apparitions (nines)

Nat Raha

80 pages • 2024 • 2 editions

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 • 2021 • 9 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Pocket Change Collective

Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon

1h 8m • 2020 • 9 editions

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ young adult informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar

291 pages • 2020 • 7 editions

fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced