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Diversify Your Bookshelf: Books by Asian & South Asian Authors
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items Discover stories that celebrate rich heritage, unique perspectives, and unforgettable voices! 🌏📚 This AAPI month, let's #DiversifyYourBookshelf with incredible works from a few of by my favorite Asian & South Asian authors across the globe. Fro...
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Biography & Memoirs
Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Mystery, Thrillers & Suspence
Nonfiction
Romance
Biography & Memoirs
Doctor by day and Bravo's Real Housewife by night, Tiffany Moon has a prescription for releasing perfectionism and finding joy!
Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection
One of TIME and Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. Natalie Portman’s Book Club Pick for March.
"Amanda’s story—innovatively told by versions of herself at different ages—underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a mov...
Amazon.com: Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii's first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her people.
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an autobiography by Queen Li...
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of th...
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that "launched a thousand ships," a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and fans adored. Her nomination for The Dark Angel mark...
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting...
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
THE BESTSELLING, "REMARKABLE" (MARIE CLAIRE) MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley...
I Am Malala
The poignant story of the life and death of world-famous author and historian Iris Chang, as told by her mother.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope...
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Fantasy
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Immortal Longings & Vilest Things is a collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.
Immortal Longings & Vilest Things
Sue Lynn Tan writes fantasy inspired by the myths and legends she fell in love with as a child. Her books have been nominated for several awards, are USA Today and Sunday Times bestsellers, and will be translated into sixteen languages.
Born in Malay...
Books by Sue Lynn Tan - Bookshop.org
From R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Babel, The Poppy War trilogy—The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God—is a complete epic inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and fi...
The Poppy War Trilogy: The Poppy War / The Dragon Republic / The Burning God
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation...
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Journey to the ruthless and romantic world of Sabaa Tahir’s New York Times bestselling fantasy series, An Ember in the Ashes.
An Ember in the Ashes Series
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby.
“A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age clas...
Don't Sleep with the Dead
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly...
The City in Glass
From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. F...
A Palace Near the Wind: Natural Engines
AN LA TIMES & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The instant New York Times bestseller
It’s the season
for treason…
The king of Yusan must die.
Five Broken Blades (Deluxe Edition)
The King of Yusan may be the greatest liar of them all.
Four Ruined Realms (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Conclusion to the series!
Three Shattered Souls (Deluxe Limited Edition)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic novel steeped in myth about womanhood, war, sacrifice, and love against all odds as ...
A Song to Drown Rivers
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick
Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author
In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers ...
Camp Zero: A Novel
WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, LIBRARY JOURNAL, BOOKLIST, AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
A ruthless princess and a powerful priestess come together to rewrite the fate of an...
The Jasmine Throne
Literary Fiction
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
“Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she say...
Yellowface
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement in disabilit...
Hunchback: A Novel
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF 2023
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life.
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
NATIONAL BESTSELLER, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, and others. The mesmerizing story of one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva—"a brilliant pe...
The Queen of the Night
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of TIME's 100 Best...
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Mystery, Thrillers & Suspence
A Punjabi American lawyer at a mysterious federal intelligence agency fights to keep his career, marriage, and morality intact in this gripping post-9/11 drama from a thrilling new voice.
“Here is, at long last, our immigrant John le Carré. . . . Ra...
The Snares: A Novel
In this debut thriller perfect for fans of Bunny and Yellowface, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade.
Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everythin...
Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 • A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic...
The Rivals: A Novel
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency...
The Verifiers
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
“A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the...
Counterfeit
When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo.
Blackmail and Bibingka
A RUSA Award-winning novel!
The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer....
Arsenic and Adobo
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021!
One of PopSugar’s "42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021"!
What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigran...
Dial A for Aunties
A USA Today bestseller
Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating myster...
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video in this riveting suspense novel by bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.
You Will Never Be Me
Nonfiction
From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (Time)
"A s...
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal--and forgotten--massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, "piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable t...
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigra...
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Romance
The Twisted series is New Adult romances with steam, suspense, and darker themes.
Twisted Love is a contemporary brother's best friend/grumpy sunshine romance. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.
Twisted Love
Kings of Sin is a seven-book billionaire romance series set in New York City, with each book centered on one of the seven deadly sins.
The first book, King of Wrath, follows Dante Russo, CEO of the Russo Group, and Vivian Lau, an heiress.
King of Wrath
Sweet but steamy new adult romance series.
If Love Series by Ana Huang
A city of magic. A passion born in dreams. A secret that will set their world aflame.
Packed with heart-pounding action and devastating twists, The Nightfire Quartet is an epic fantasy romance that begins with a slow burn and builds to a steamy enemi...
Heart of Night and Fire: An absolutely addictive slow burn fantasy romance
Rival engineers dabble in personal chemistry while at a tropical company retreat in this smart, zippy romcom.
Not Safe for Work
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She needs a divorce from her husband—but a hurricane threatens to dredge up their stormy, passionate past in this sizzling romance from the bestselling author of Say You’ll Be Mine.
Flirting With Disaster: A Novel
A teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex’s wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. Their plan? Faking an engagement, of course.
AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Say You'll Be Mine: A Novel
Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last meets Jane Igharo's Ties That Tether in this own voices comedy of manners set in Mumbai where modernity jostles with tradition.
Big-hearted with piercing social commentary, The Rules of Arrangement tells a powerful, ...
The Rules of Arrangement
When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find the only force more powerful than an immigrant mother’s matchmaking schemes might just be true love.
Sunshine and Spice
Luv Shuv in New York is an interracial, contemporary romance with lots of humor, opposites attract goodness, a touch of forbidden love, steam, and full-on Indian family drama.
Luv Shuv In New York: An Opposites Attract, Interracial Romance
Laugh and swoon with the next book in Disney’s Meant to Be collection by bestselling and award-winning author Jesse Q. Sutanto, whose novel Dial A For Aunties Emily Henry called “Utterly clever, deeply funny, and altogether charming.”
Mulan's ready ...
Worth Fighting For
Romantasy
A Court of Thorns and Roses meets Fourth Wing in this pulse-pounding, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance--with fae magic, high-stakes trials, and a dark prince--from Booktok favorite author Nisha J. Tuli.
Trial of the Sun Queen
She knows the taste of death. He'll stoke her hunger for it.
A dazzling Ancient Rome-inspired romantasy debut, This Monster of Mine is a bloodbath of manipulation, deception, and forbidden love.
This Monster of Mine
Young Adult
XIRAN JAY ZHAO is a first-gen immigrant from small-town China who was raised by the Internet. A recent graduate of Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University, they wrote science fiction and fantasy while they probably should have been studying more about b...
Books by Xiran Jay Zhao - Bookshop.org
Chloe Gong’s New York Times bestselling These Violent Delights and its sequel, Our Violent Ends—the lush fantasy duology reimagining Romeo and Juliet in 1920s Shanghai.
These Violent Delights Duet: These Violent Delights; Our Violent Ends
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the “equal parts intoxicating and dazzling” (Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Wolves) first book in a captivating new d...
Foul Lady Fortune Duology
Winner of the National Book Award
A New York Times Bestseller
"The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine
Winner of the National Book Award
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
A ...
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a world at war with demons, one girl will face the ultimate test when she is forced to enter into an ancient, deadly competition for the chance to save her mother's soul… before she loses her forever. From the author ...
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom