Asian-American Authors You Should Be Reading (and not just in May)

By Walden Pond Books

By Walden Pond Books

Asian-American Authors You Should Be Reading (and not just in May)

MAY IS ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH! 

You should be reading any of these books any month of the year, but May is a great opportunity to bring them to your attention.

  • A curated and regularly updated list of the most noteworthy books (fiction and nonfiction) by American authors who share an Asian or Pacific Island heritage.
  • Check back every so often to see the latest additions.

The Making of Asian America: A History

Erika Lee

$22.00
$20.24

Pizza Girl

Jean Kyoung Frazier

$16.00
$14.72

Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri

$24.00
$22.08

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner

$26.95
$24.79

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

$16.00
$14.72

The Ones We're Meant to Find

Joan He

$18.99
$17.47

Gold Diggers

Sanjena Sathian

$27.00
$24.84

Swimming Back to Trout River

Linda Rui Feng

$26.00
$23.92

The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

Gina Apostol

$27.00
$24.84

The Bad Muslim Discount

Syed M. Masood

$26.95
$24.79

The Son of Good Fortune

Lysley Tenorio

$16.99
$15.63

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

C. Pam Zhang

$16.00
$14.72

My Year Abroad

Chang-Rae Lee

$28.00
$25.76

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

$18.00
$16.56

Days of Distraction

Alexandra Chang

$16.99
$15.63

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin...

Paula Yoo

$19.95
$18.35

The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made about...

Matt Ortile

$16.99
$15.63

Patron Saints of Nothing

Randy Ribay

$17.99
$16.55

Yolk

Mary H K Choi

$19.99
$18.39

The Incendiaries

R O Kwon

$16.00
$14.72

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers

$24.95
$22.95

Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World: An Anthology of...

$22.00

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

$18.00
$16.56

The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems

Arthur Sze

$35.00
$32.20

The Parted Earth

Anjali Enjeti

$26.00
$23.92

A Beginning at the End

Mike Chen

$17.99
$16.55

The Weight of Our Sky

Hanna Alkaf

$11.99
$11.03

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change

Anjali Enjeti

$24.95
$22.95

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People

Helen Zia

$18.00
$16.56

Eat a Bowl of Tea

Louis Chu

$22.95
$21.11

Hana Khan Carries on

Uzma Jalaluddin

$16.00
$14.72

Run Me to Earth

Paul Yoon

$17.00
$15.64

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Michio Kaku

$22.00
$20.24

The Henna Artist (First Time Trade)

Alka Joshi

$17.99
$16.55

Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui

$16.95
$15.59

The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen

$27.00
$24.84

Vagabonds

Hao Jingfang

$17.99
$16.55

The Body Papers: A Memoir

Grace Talusan

$17.99
$16.55

The Vanished Birds

Simon Jimenez

$17.00
$15.64

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

$15.99
$14.71

When You Trap a Tiger: (Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal)

Tae Keller

$16.99
$15.63

Sour Heart: Stories

Jenny Zhang

$17.00
$15.64

A Place for Us

Fatima Farheen Mirza

$17.00
$15.64

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who...

Gordon H. Chang

$16.99
$15.63

I Hotel

Karen Tei Yamashita

$21.95
$20.19

The Gangster We Are All Looking for

Thi Diem Thuy Le

$15.95
$14.67

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

Yoshiko Uchida

$22.00

San Francisco's Chinatown

$40.00
$36.80

Bestiary

K-Ming Chang

$27.00
$24.84

Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jean Kwok

$16.99
$15.63

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

$16.00
$14.72

A Burning

Megha Majumdar

$25.95
$23.87

Heiress Apparently (Daughters of the Dynasty)

Diana Ma

$17.99
$16.55

When the Sea Turned to Silver

Grace Lin

$9.99
$9.19

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Nghi Vo

$12.99
$11.95

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Nghi Vo

$15.99
$14.71

Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists

Chenxing Han

$17.95
$16.51

Patron Saints of Nothing

Randy Ribay

$10.99
$10.11

Finding My Voice

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

$18.99
$17.47

Your House Will Pay

Steph Cha

$17.99
$16.55

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for...

Ali Wong

$18.00
$16.56

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

$17.00
$15.64

Almond

Won-Pyung Sohn

$25.99
$23.91

Where Reasons End

Yiyun Li

$16.00
$14.72

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

Min Jin Lee

$16.99
$15.63

Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

$15.99
$14.71

The Night Tiger

Yangsze Choo

$17.99
$16.55

The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction

Violet Kupersmith

$16.00

City of the Plague God

Sarwat Chadda

$16.99
$15.63

The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set

Kevin Kwan

$49.90
$45.91

The Grave on the Wall

Brandon Shimoda

$16.95
$15.59

Edinburgh

Alexander Chee

$15.99
$14.71

A Daughter of the Samurai (Warbler Classics)

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

$15.95
$14.67

The Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

$18.00
$16.56

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

$17.00
$15.64

Women of the Silk

Gail Tsukiyama

$17.99
$16.55

America Is in the Heart

Carlos Bulosan

$18.00
$16.56

DMZ Colony

Don Mee Choi

$20.00
$18.40

The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Viet Thanh Nguyen

$17.00
$15.64

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

Sj Sindu

$15.00
$13.80

A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

$18.00
$16.56

Dogeaters

Jessica Hagedorn

$17.00
$15.64

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

$15.99
$14.71

Monstress: Stories

Lysley Tenorio

$16.99
$15.63

Insurrecto

Gina Apostol

$16.00
$14.72

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes,...

Michio Kaku

$17.00
$15.64

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

$15.99
$14.71

On Such a Full Sea

Chang-Rae Lee

$16.00
$14.72

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

$18.99
$17.47

All I Asking for Is My Body

Milton Murayama

$16.00

Death of a Red Heroine

Qiu Xiaolong

$16.95
$15.59

The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1)

Kazu Kibuishi and Kazu Kibuishi

$12.99
$11.95

East Goes West

Younghill Kang

$18.00
$16.56

The Legend Trilogy Boxed Set: Legend/Prodigy/Champion [With...

Marie Lu

$56.97
$52.41

Number One Chinese Restaurant

Lillian Li

$17.00
$15.64

Ninefox Gambit, 1

Yoon Ha Lee

$9.99
$9.19

Dragon Pearl

Yoon Ha Lee and Yoon Lee

$7.99
$7.35

No-No Boy

John Okada

$17.95
$16.51

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien

$16.95
$15.59

The Hanging on Union Square

H T Tsiang

$18.00
$16.56

The Caprices

Sabina Murray

$13.00
$11.96

Private Citizens

Tony Tulathimutte

$14.99

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Hisaye Yamamoto

$28.95

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who...

Helen Zia

$18.00
$16.56

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

$16.95
$15.59

Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fonda Lee

$17.95

Jade City

Fonda Lee

$16.99
$15.63

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Roshani Chokshi

$8.99
$8.27

The Last Empress

Anchee Min

$18.98

Superman Smashes the Klan

Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

$16.99
$15.63

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

$18.00
$16.56

Severance

Ling Ma

$17.00
$15.64

The Leavers

Lisa Ko

$15.95
$14.67

The Kinship of Secrets

Eugenia Kim

$15.99
$14.71

The Secrets Between Us

Thrity Umrigar

$16.99
$15.63

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

$14.95
$13.75

The Girl and the Ghost

Hanna Alkaf

$16.99
$15.63

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Maxine Hong Kingston

$15.95
$14.67

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

Linda Sue Park

$8.99
$8.27

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

$26.00
$23.92

Sansei and Sensibility

Karen Tei Yamashita

$16.95
$15.59

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chua

$17.00
$15.64

My Baby First Birthday

Jenny Zhang

$15.95
$14.67

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Jeff Chang

$22.00
$20.24

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

$18.00
$16.56

Dating Makes Perfect

Pintip Dunn

$9.99
$9.19

Nori

Rumi Hara

$24.95
$22.95

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

$16.95
$15.59

Emergency Contact (Reprint)

Mary H K Choi

$10.99
$10.11

Chemistry

Weike Wang

$16.00
$14.72

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui

$18.99
$17.47

It's Not Like It's a Secret

Misa Sugiura

$10.99
$10.11

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang

$16.00
$14.72

Everything Here Is Beautiful

Mira T. Lee

$16.00
$14.72

No One Can Pronounce My Name

Rakesh Satyal

$18.00
$16.56

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

$20.00
$18.40

Little Gods

Meng Jin

$27.99
$25.75

Filipinos in the East Bay

Evangeline Canonizado, Evelyn Luluquisen, et al.

$21.99
$20.23

Chinese in Hollywood

Jenny Cho and Chinese Historical Society of Southern C

$21.99
$20.23

Fairest: A Memoir

Meredith Talusan

$27.00
$24.84

San Francisco's Chinatown: A Revised Edition

Judy Yung and Chinese Historical Society of America

$21.99
$20.23

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

$17.00
$15.64

The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

Aimee Phan

$22.00
$20.24

The Resisters

Gish Jen

$26.95
$24.79

The Mistress of Spices

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

$16.00
$14.72

The Palace of Illusions

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

$16.95
$15.59

The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems (Bilingual)

Bei Dao

$18.95
$17.43

Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

$17.00
$15.64

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

Alex Gilvarry

$16.00

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont

$6.99
$6.43

Harvest

Tess Gerritsen

$16.99
$15.63

The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

Tess Gerritsen

$9.99
$9.19

Gotham High

Melissa de la Cruz and Thomas Pitilli

$16.99
$15.63

The Undressing: Poems

Li-Young Lee

$15.95
$14.67

The Friend

Sigrid Nunez

$16.00
$14.72

Three-Body Problem Boxed Set: (The Three-Body Problem, the...

Cixin Liu

$53.97
$49.65

Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation

Yoshiko Uchida and Donald Carrick

$10.00
$9.20

Pidgin Eye

Joe Balaz

$20.00

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Ed Young

$17.99
$16.55

San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino...

Estella Habal

$30.95

China Boy

Gus Lee

$16.00

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Grace Lin

$11.99
$11.03

Comfort Woman

Nora Okja Keller

$14.00

Yokohama, California

Toshio Mori

$21.95

Fingerprints of a Hungerstrike

Tony Robles

$16.00

To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 1

Jenny Han

$10.99
$10.11

Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories

Bienvenido N. Santos

$22.00

Country of Origin

Don Lee

$21.95

Mrs. Spring Fragrance: A Collection of Chinese-American Short...

Sui Sin Far

$6.95
$6.39

Demonstra: A Poetry Collection

Bryan Thao Worra

$11.99

Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the...

Simon Tam

$16.99
$15.63

Oceanic

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

$17.00
$15.64

Time Salvager

Wesley Chu

$18.99

Worth the Weight: Worth Series Book 1: A Copper Country Romance

Mara Jacobs

$9.99

Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Porochista Khakpour

$16.00
$14.72

Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

Tao Lin

$16.95
$15.59

Here and Now and Then (First Time Trade)

Mike Chen

$15.99
$14.71

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford

$17.00
$15.64

Nightingale

Paisley Rekdal

$16.00
$14.72

Happy Family

Wendy Lee

$14.00
$12.88

The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X. R. Pan

$10.99
$10.11

The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio

Ben Fong-Torres

$21.99

Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the...

Amy Sueyoshi

$31.20

Thousand Star Hotel

Bao Phi

$16.95
$15.59

I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment

Toyo Suyemoto

$34.95

Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (Graphic Novel)

Greg Pak and Valeria Favoccia

$10.99
$10.11

The Tenth Muse

Catherine Chung

$16.99
$15.63

Dear Cyborgs

Eugene Lim

$14.00
$12.88

A Step from Heaven

An Na

$10.99
$10.11

Tastes Like War: A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

$17.95
$16.51