#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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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

Hani and Ishu’s Guide #1

Adiba Jaigirdar

9 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2021

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II by Ronald Takaki

Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II

Ronald Takaki

8 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 2000

nonfiction history race informative medium-paced
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

7 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

320 pages • paperback • 2000

fiction historical literary emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin

Concerning My Daughter

Kim Hye-Jin

4 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2017

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Lady Knight by Amalie Howard

Lady Knight

The Diamonds #2

Amalie Howard

10 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction historical romance young adult adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry

Mother of Strangers

Suad Amiry

7 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas

9 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction business economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan

6 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction essays feminism sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Grass

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

471 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction biography graphic novel history dark emotional sad medium-paced