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Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a great read from the library. The following list was curated by the Buncombe County library staff.
Adult Fiction
Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Skull Water by Heinz Insu Feinkl
The Descendents by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Babel by RF Kuang
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Partition: Stories by Don Lee
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma
Severance by Ling Ma
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Adult Non-Fiction
Go Back Where You Came from and Other Helpful Recommendations by Wajahat Ali
Another Appalachia: Growing Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
My Life: Growing up Asian in America edited by CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment
How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo
Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory by Brian Masaru Hayashi
Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
What We Carry by Maya Lang
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Making a Scene by Constance Wu
Rise: a Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Picture books for kids
Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
This is Not My Home by Vivienne Chang and Eugenia Yoh
I Am Golden by Eva Chen
Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Chapter books and graphic novels for kids
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series by Sayantani Dasgupta
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy
The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
The Tryout by Christina Soontornvat
The Night Marchers, and other Oceanian stories by Various Authors
Juvenile biographies for kids
A is for Asian American: An Asian Pacific Islander Desi American alphabet by Virginia Loh-Hagan
Yes We Will: Asian Americans who Shaped this Country by Kelly Yang
The Boy Who Became a Dragon: A Bruce Lee story by Jim Di Bartolo
A Boy Named Isamu: A story of Isamu Noguchi by James Yang
Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Julie Leung
Teen fiction and graphic novels
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi
This Place Is Still Beautiful by XiXi Tian
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Messy Roots by Laura Gao
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen