#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
Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit

Sunshine and Spice

Aurora Palit

334 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced
Other: an Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology by Eddy Zheng, Ben Wang

Other: an Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology

Eddy Zheng, Ben Wang

146 pages • 2007 • 2 editions

nonfiction poetry race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly

Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook

Sohla El-Waylly

660 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction cookbook food and drink funny informative medium-paced
Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Well, That Was Unexpected #1

Well, That Was Unexpected

Jesse Q. Sutanto

352 pages • 2022 • 13 editions

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Single Player by Tara Tai

Single Player

Tara Tai

9h 30m • 2025 • 5 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
We Do Not Part by Han Kang

We Do Not Part

Han Kang

272 pages • 2021 • 66 editions

user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
No-No Boy by John Okada

No-No Boy

John Okada

260 pages • 1957 • 11 editions

fiction classics historical emotional reflective sad slow-paced
A Condition Called Love, Volume 1 by Megumi Morino

花野井くんと恋の病 / A Condition Called Love #1

A Condition Called Love, Volume 1

Megumi Morino

192 pages • 2018 • 16 editions

fiction contemporary manga romance young adult adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

Fall of the Dragon #1

Of Jade and Dragons

Amber Chen

466 pages • 2024 • 16 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

1h 35m • 2023 • 8 editions

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced