#20BooksByAsianAuthors

ktlee_writes Host

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).

#20BooksByAsianAuthors

ktlee_writes Host

133 participants (790 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenge Books

All books added

Flashlight: A Novel
Susan Choi

464 pages • digital • 2025 (editions)

fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Flashlight: A Novel

Susan Choi

464 pages • digital • 2025

fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

The Original Daughter
Jemimah Wei with Eunice Wong (Narrator)

13 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2025 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced

The Original Daughter

Jemimah Wei with Eunice Wong (Narrator)

13 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club by Gloria Chao

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club
Gloria Chao

320 pages • digital • 2025 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club

Gloria Chao

320 pages • digital • 2025

fiction contemporary mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Dear Wendy
Ann Zhao

368 pages • digital • 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

368 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Daughter of Cambodia #1

Loung Ung

274 pages • digital • 2000 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional informative medium-paced

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Loung Ung

274 pages • digital • 2000 user-added

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional informative medium-paced

Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang

Immaculate Conception
Ling Ling Huang

304 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

fiction horror literary dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang

304 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction horror literary dark mysterious sad medium-paced

America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo with Donnabella Mortel (Narrator)

16 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2018 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo with Donnabella Mortel (Narrator)

16 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2018

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced

Minor Detail
Adania Shibli with Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

112 pages • paperback • 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli with Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

112 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced

Tomie
Tomie #1-3

Junji Ito with Naomi Kokubo (Translator)

742 pages • hardcover • 1987 (editions)

fiction horror manga dark fast-paced

Tomie

Tomie #1-3

Junji Ito with Naomi Kokubo (Translator)

742 pages • hardcover • 1987

fiction horror manga dark fast-paced

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

304 pages • digital • 2005 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

304 pages • digital • 2005

fiction dystopian literary science fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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