#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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Excavations by Hannah Michell

Excavations

Hannah Michell

302 pages • 2023 • 9 editions

fiction literary thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by Mimi Khúc

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc

272 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction health race medium-paced
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

318 pages • 2022 • 76 editions

fiction contemporary fantasy romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
La mujer de terracota by Zen Cho

La mujer de terracota

Zen Cho

100 pages • 2011 • 10 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Escamas de luz by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Scale-Bright

Escamas de luz

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

264 pages • 2014 • 4 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous medium-paced
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

388 pages • 2017 • 146 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar

Silence Is a Sense

Layla AlAmmar

8h 8m • 2021 • 11 editions

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Out by Natsuo Kirino

Out

Natsuo Kirino

416 pages • 1997 • 72 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

362 pages • 2006 • 48 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Identitti by Mithu Sanyal

Identitti

Mithu Sanyal

438 pages • 2021 • 18 editions

fiction literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced