Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with These Titles [2]

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! To celebrate, members of ABA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) contributed a list of titles for you to check out and add to your shelves this month.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning [3]
Cathy Park Hong, One World, 9781984820389

Tastes Like War: A Memoir [4]
Grace M. Cho, Feminist Press, 9781952177941

Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir [5]
Robin Ha, Balzer + Bray, 9780062685094

Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America [6]
Sharmila Sen, Penguin Books, 9780143131380

Hair Twins [7]
Raakhee Mirchandani, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 9780316495301

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations [8]
Mira Jacob, One World, 9780399589065

The Night Diary [9]
Veera Hiranandani, Puffin Books, 9780735228528

This Is Paradise: Stories [10]
Kristiana Kahakauwila, Hogarth, 9780770436254

Fairest: A Memoir [11]
Meredith Talusan, Viking, 9780525561309

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments [12]
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Milkweed Editions, 9781571313652

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir [13]
Malaka Gharib, Clarkson Potter, 9780525575115

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team [14]
Christina Soontornvat, Candlewick, 9781536209457

Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In [15]
Phuc Tran, Flatiron Books, 9781250826619

House of Sticks: A Memoir [16]
Ly Tran, Scribner, 9781501118821

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life [17]
Ali Wong, Random House, 9780525508830

Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee [18]
Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (Ed.), BOA Editions, 9781929918829

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution [19]
Helen Zia, Ballantine Books, 9780345522337

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century [20]
Kim Fu, Tin House Books, 9781951142995

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief [21]
Victoria Chang, Milkweed Editions, 9781571313928

The Wangs Vs. the World [22]
Jade Chang, Ecco, 9781328745538

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement [23]
Paula Yoo, Norton Young Readers, 9781324002871

American Born Chinese [24]
Gene Luen Yang, Square Fish, 9780312384487

Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel [25]
Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Flatiron Books, 9781250811783

The Ninja Daughter [26]
Tori Eldridge, Agora Books, 9781947993693

Front Desk [27]
Kelly Yang, Arthur A. Levine Books, 9781338157826

The Silence That Binds Us [28]
Joanna Ho, HarperTeen, 9780063059344

The Stand-In [29]
Lily Chu, Sourcebooks Casablanca, 9781728242620

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice [30]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Arsenal Pulp Press, 9781551527383

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now [31]
Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang, Harper, 9780358508090

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir [32]
T Kira Madden, Bloomsbury Publishing, 9781635574760

The Bone People: A Novel [33]
Keri Hulme, Penguin Books, 9780140089226

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies [34]
Tsering Yangzom Lama, Bloomsbury Publishing, 9781635576412

Fiona and Jane [35]
Jean Chen Ho, Viking, 9780593296042

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere [36]
Sindya Bhanoo, Catapult, 9781646220878

The Chai Factor: A Novel [37]
Farah Heron, HarperAvenue, 9781443459877

Afterparties: Stories [38]
Anthony Veasna So, Ecco, 9780063049901

How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel [39]
Sequoia Nagamatsu, William Morrow, 9780063072640

Clark and Division [40]
Naomi Hirahara, Soho Crime, 9781641292498

Crushing on You [41]
Jen Trinh, Independently Published, 9781672871921

The Last Mapmaker [42]
Christina Soontornvat, Candlewick, 9781536204957

The Keeper of Night [43]
Kylie Lee Baker, Inkyard Press, 9781335405661

This Time Will Be Different [44]
Misa Sugiura, HarperTeen, 9780062473455

All the Flowers Kneeling [45]
Paul Tran, Penguin Books, 9780143136842

Go Home! [46]
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Ed.), Feminist Press, 9781936932016

The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel [47]
Aamina Ahmad, Riverhead Books, 9780593330180

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