#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
Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

Ma and Me

Putsata Reang

11h 20m • 2022 • 6 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

387 pages • 2023 • 25 editions

fiction contemporary literary mystery emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

8h 2m • 2020 • 12 editions

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright

The Age of Blood #1

Mistress of Lies

K.M. Enright

15h 8m • 2024 • 14 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced
One Last Word by Suzanne Park

One Last Word

Suzanne Park

8h 34m • 2024 • 5 editions

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted fast-paced
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Isabella Hammad

96 pages • 2024 • 12 editions

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

How to Pronounce Knife

Souvankham Thammavongsa

179 pages • 2020 • 20 editions

fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective fast-paced
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

Entitlement

Rumaan Alam

276 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

fiction literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

7h 23m • 2021 • 79 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton by Kazim Ali

Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton

Kazim Ali

294 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction