Asian American, Pacific Islander Fiction

Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
Korean-American

A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan.
Japanese-American

Following Edison Harkï, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOODASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban.
Chinese-American

ll Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at the school.
Chinese-American

Opposites attract when an always-the-bridesmaid florist and a grumpy caterer mix business with pleasure in this swoony romantic comedy.
Chinese-American

A charming rom-com about a young woman's desperate attempts to fend off her meddling mother...only to find that maybe mother does know best.
Chinese-Canadian

A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman's messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat.
Japanese-American

1944: As World War II rages on, a mysterious, deadly fervor spreads across America, transforming people into monstrous aggressors, each provoked into fits of unthinkable barbarity.
Japanese-American

In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country.
Chinese-American

Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.
Chinese-American

"Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. The best kind of science fiction." --Barack Obama, via Facebook
Chinese-American

A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity.
Chinese-American

In this vibrant and original novel, Christopher Columbus Wong, orphan son of a Chinatown bachelor community, is trying to invent a family for himself while all around him American popular culture is reinventing itself with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
Chinese-American

The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction.
Chinese-American

As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs.
Vietnamese-American

In a powerful debut about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman stakes a claim to the American dream in California.
Chinese-American

A lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.
Chinese-American

Suspecting foul play in the wake of her mother's accidental death, Margot Lee investigates her mother's past as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant before uncovering profound secrets.
Korean-America

We didn't call the police right away. When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand--but doing what exactly? Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?
Korean-American

Struggling writer June Hayward, after witnessing the death of her successful counterpart Athena Liu, seizes the opportunity to steal Athena's manuscript, hoping to claim it as her own. As June rises to fame under the pseudonym Juniper Song, she confronts issues of race, cultural appropriation, and the erasure of Asian-American voices, leading to a suspenseful exploration of identity and ambition in the publishing world.
Chinese-American

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge.
Chinese-American

When Lila returns home to heal from a breakup, she's thrust into a whirlwind of rom-com clichés: saving her aunt's failing restaurant, dealing with matchmaking aunties, and confronting her ex, who dies suddenly after a spat with her. Now a suspect in his death, Lila must navigate a sinister plot involving the police and a shady landlord, launching her into a gripping Agatha Christie-style mystery where she must rely on her aunties, best friend, and trusty dog to uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim.
Filipino-American

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.
Vietnamese-American

In a tranquil world of routine and solace, a group of swimmers find connection through their private rituals in the pool. But when a crack disrupts their sanctuary, they are thrust into an unforgiving reality. Among them is Alice, grappling with dementia, for whom the pool was a last refuge. Without the camaraderie of fellow swimmers, she is pulled into a tumult of memories, while her estranged daughter witnesses her heartbreaking decline, too late to offer solace.
Japanese-Americans

Cherry Truong's parents have exiled her wayward older brother from their Southern California home, sending him to Vietnam to live with distant relatives. Determined to bring him back, twenty-one-year-old Cherry travels to their homeland and finds herself on a journey to uncover her family's decades-old secrets.
Vietnamese-American

Ren Yu lives for swimming, her sole focus on earning a scholarship to escape her mundane life. But beneath the surface lies a haunting suspicion – is she truly human, or a mermaid? As Ren grapples with the pressure to succeed and the longing to embrace her aquatic heritage, she's willing to sacrifice everything, even if it means diving into a world of darkness and danger.
Chinese-American

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.
Vietnamese-American

Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
Korean-American

Every day Willis Wu leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy-- and he sees his life as a script. After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he has ever known.
Chinese-American

From the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.
Korean-American