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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Books

This guide provides resources in recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated each May.

Fiction

The Night Diary

Little Fires Everywhere : A Novel

Typical American

Crazy Rich Asians

China Rich Girlfriend

Rich People Problems

The Thing about Luck

Interpreter of Maladies

A Little Life

War Trash

The Joy Luck Club

Sold

M. Butterfly

Kira - Kira

The Holder of the World

Unaccustomed Earth

The Lowland

The Valley of Amazement

The Surrendered

River of Heaven

The Namesake

The Kitchen God's Wife

The Crazed

The City in Which I Love You

A Free Life

Out of India

The Sympathizer

Eat Everything Before You Die

Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography

Phoenix Eyes

The Bread of Salt and Other Stories

The Red Kimono

The Barbarians Are Coming

Color of the Sea

The Teahouse Fire

Nonfiction

Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing

Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South

Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States

Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple

Growing up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American

Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage from India to America

A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i

Second-Generation Korean Americans: The Struggle for Full Inclusion

Pacific Citizens : Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II ERA

In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American Struggle for Equality

Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asians Traverse a Transnational World

Islanders in the Empire

In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West

I Respectfully Dissent: A Biography of Edward H. Nakamura

Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans

Yellow Power, Yellow Soul

Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations

After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

Asian American Art, a history 1850-1970

Filipino American Lives

A Faith of Our Own: second-generation spirituality in Korean American Churches

Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

Poetry

When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

Babaylan: an anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers

A Place Called No Homeland

Afterland: poems

Commons

Whetu Moana: an anthology of Polynesian Poetry

Human Dark with Sugar

Mad Honey Symposium

Ten Thousand Waves: poems

Indivisible: an anthology of contemporary South Asian American poetry

Curriculum Collection

Landed

American Born Chinese

A Different Pond

When You Trap a Tiger

Inside Out and Back Again

Grandfather's Journey

Yoko

Thin Wood Walls

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