The Decade's Best Asian American Voices

A selection of the most influential writings of the last decade by Asian American authors.
Updated September 30, 2022
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The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. They'd been up since four am. ...
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Paper Book
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Paper Book
A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent' The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political...
Light From Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Paper Book
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Hugo...
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
Paper Book
**A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021** 'An amazing book, beautiful and captivating.' Elif Shafak 'A gorgeous, destabilizing meditation' Raven Leilani From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a...
If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
Paper Book
A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel about four young women struggling to survive in South Korea If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women...
The Farm
Joanne Ramos
Paper Book
Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules... Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money....
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Ebook
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Paper Book
In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan-the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+.  In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored...
The incendiaries
R. O. Kwon
Paper Book
Severance
Ling Ma
Paper Book
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: her work, watching movies with her boyfriend, avoiding thoughts of her recently deceased Chinese immigrant parents. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps the world....
Goodbye, Vitamin
Rachel Khong
Paper Book
'A beautifully written coming-of-age debut, dreamy and funny ... flawless' Independent 'Khong is a magician... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life,...
Emergency Contact
Mary H.K. Choi
Paper Book
"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book." --Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory--perfect for fans of Eleanor &...
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose your roots--within your culture,...
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
Paper Book
A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Paper Book
**THE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD 2020** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020** Brilliant, heart-breaking, tender, and highly original -...
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
Ebook
Trust Exercise
Susan Choi
Paper Book
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. An electrifying novel that speaks directly to the #metoo movement.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
Paper Book
  The book that started it all! All three books in the To All The Boys I've Loved Beforeseries have been made into feature length films for NETFLIX. A Times Best YA Book of All Time(2021) Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for...
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
Ebook
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Paper Book
*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016 'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high...

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