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Secret Coders (Volume 1) by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes

18 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Listen. I'm going to tell you a story -- " Well, of course, if two-time National Book Award finalist (third time will be the charm!) Gene Luen Yang is involved with the explicating, you're going to listen, and listen well. This former high school computer science...

China Rich Girlfriend [Crazy Rich Asians 2] by Kevin Kwan

31 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Summer is waning way too quickly, but you still have a final week left to indulge in frothy reads: the over-the-top excesses of Singaporean Manhattanite Kevin Kwan’s novels might be just what you've been looking for as Labor Day looms. If you haven't yet relished Kwan's debut,...

Nanjing: The Burning City by Ethan Young

14 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

The late Iris Chang almost single-handedly taught the western world about the horrors of the Nanking Massacre in her 1997 The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Over six weeks that began with the Imperial Japanese Army's capture of China's then-capital city of...

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

03 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Well, my mama was a hairdresser, but she had this big dream that what she really wanted to be one day was a – an astronomer," 12-year-old Galileo Galilei Barnes explains to her teacher and class on her first day at her new school. Pointing at the...

Diamond Head by Cecily Wong

30 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian

If you're tuned to celluloid pop culture, you probably heard about the Aloha casting controversy earlier this year, most specifically that casting Emma Stone as a hapa Chinese Hawaiian Swedish character named Allison Ng was probably not the smartest (accurate? effective? politically correct?) choice. Depicting...

The Whale in My Swimming Pool by Joyce Wan

23 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

"Race you to the pool!" an excited little boy sporting bright red trunks shouts on his way out to his backyard. But he's forced to come full stop because of ...

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

06 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When Samantha Young swoops out of her father's dry goods store still angry from the news that they will soon be leaving Missouri for California – the exact opposite direction from New York – she couldn't possibly have realized that her life would literally be...

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

On the night high school senior Kristin Lattimer is crowned homecoming queen, she decides the time is just right to become intimate with her boyfriend. As ready as she thought she was, however, nothing prepares her for the pain – both physical and mental – that follows....

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Arree Chung’s Ninja!

29 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Danica Novgorodoff’s The Undertaking of Lily Chen

17 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

12 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Ghost Month [Taipei Night Market, Book 1] by Ed Lin

08 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Taiwanese, Taiwanese American

Some strong suggestions first: 1. Don't read this hungry (just the phrase "Asian street food" will have many of you salivating); 2. Don't read this all alone at night. And, if you decide to 'read' by listening to narrator Feodor Chin, be further warned: he...

Three Souls by Janie Chang + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

04 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

"We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this." Thus begins Canadian author Janie Chang’s debut novel, Three Souls, in which a dead woman will learn about a life that ended too quickly, and how she might...

Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling

17 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean

Headlines in 2009 put Laura Ling and Euna Lee on screens and print around the world. 'American journalists held captive in North Korea' was certainly not a common occurrence. While filming footage for a documentary on North Korean defectors in March 2009, three colleagues from...

Girls on the Edge: Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan, Gabi: A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero, I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn, and Falling into Place by Amy Zhang [in American Book Review]

05 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, European, Fiction, Iranian American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Girls on the Edge Adolescence without instant uploads, 140-character confessions, and constant connectivity was just so last century – survival in the 21st means a whole new set of unfamiliar, unpredictable challenges. In four recent, better-not-miss novels for young adults, four diverse women writers amplify the modern...

Ninja! by Arree Chung

31 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

The text here is all about serious preparation ("a thick ninja stick"), effective tactics ("must master the element of ...

The Year of the Sheep: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Alina Chau

09 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

What? 2014 is almost over? I never caught up with everything I shoulda done in 2013. Oh well ...

Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What’s a Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort Of) by Elaine Lui

02 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese American, Hong Kongese, Memoir, Nonfiction

Toronto-based Elaine Lui, better known as Lainey, has built one of the most powerful careers in entertainment by harvesting gossip; her immensely successful blog, LaineyGossips, is a leading industry standard, she's seen regularly on Canadian screens (and beyond) as a reporter for etalk and co-host...

Noodle Magic by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, illustrated by Meilo So

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

After such a bountiful weekend, food might not be the first thing on your mind this Cyber Monday morning ...

Author Interview: Ava Chin [in Bloom]

26 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audience, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Genre, Memoir, Nonfiction, Origin/Ethnic Background, Repost

Thanksgiving approach-eth! Don’t you want to know what will be on the Urban Forager’s table? Read on! Ava Chin, author of recently published Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal, chats about family, motherhood, writing, and the art of foraging – complete with...

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