#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

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Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

Edward Lee

320 pages • 2018 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
Vilest Things by Chloe Gong

Flesh and False Gods #2

Vilest Things

Chloe Gong

374 pages • 2024 • 18 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee

Realm of Four Kingdoms #1

Nine Tailed

Jayci Lee

350 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Something Like Fate by Amy Lea

Something Like Fate

Amy Lea

352 pages • 2025 • 8 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

The Celestial Kingdom #1

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan

503 pages • 2022 • 74 editions

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
Woke Up Like This: A Novel by Amy Lea

Woke Up Like This: A Novel

Amy Lea

273 pages • 2023 • 13 editions

fiction contemporary romance science fiction young adult funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama

Political Order

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Francis Fukuyama

688 pages • 2014 • 17 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

Rental Person Who Does Nothing

Shoji Morimoto

148 pages • 2019 • 16 editions

nonfiction memoir informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-En

Monkey King: Journey to the West

Wu Ch'eng-En

13h 58m • 1592 • 69 editions

fiction classics adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Xinran

256 pages • 2002 • 25 editions

nonfiction gender history emotional informative reflective slow-paced