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Celebrating Cultural Heritage: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Curated recommendations and resources in recognition of various cultural heritages.

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Recommendations

Recommendations

 

AAPI Her. Recommendations

Homeland Elegies
by Ayad Akhtar

F AKHTAR

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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang

F CHANG

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The Family Chao
by Lan Samantha Chang

F CHANG

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Disorientation
by Elaine Hsieh Chou

F CHOU

 

The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai

F DESAI

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Where We Once Belonged
by Sia Figiel

F FIGIEL

 

This is Paradise: Stories
by Kristiana Kahakauwila

F KAHAKAUWILA

 

The Poppy War
by R.F. Kuang

F KUANG

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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
by Tom Lin

F LIN

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Severance
by Ling Ma

F MA

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The Bad Muslim Discount
by Sayed Masood

F MASOOD

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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng

F NG

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Passage West
by Rishi Reddi

F REDDI

 

The Committed
by Nguyen

F Viet Thanh Nguyen

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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

F TAN

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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara

F YANAGIHARA

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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu

F YU

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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang

F ZHANG

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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko

LT-F KO

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Mimi Lee Gets a Clue
by Jennifer J. Chow

M CHOW

 

Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala

M MANANSALA

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The Verifiers
by Jane Pek

M PEK

 

Fireheart Tiger
by Aliette Bodard

SF BODARD

 

We Could Be Heroes
by Mike Chen

SF CHEN

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Zero Sum Game
by S.L. Huang

SF HUANG

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Speak, Okinawa
by Elizabeth Miki Brina

BIO BRINA

 

Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

BIO HOUSTON

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Fairest
by Meredith Talusan

BIO TALUSAN

 

Sigh, Gone
by Phuc Tran

BIO TRAN

 

Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner

BIO ZAUNER

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My Life: Growing Up Asian in American
Introduction by SuChin Parl

305.895073 M9951m 2022

 

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
by Jeff Yang

306.095 Y221r 2022

The Groom Will Keep His Name
by Matt Ortile

306.7662092 O775g 2020

Ghosts of Gold Mountain
by Gordon H. Chang

331.6251 C45625g 2019

Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
by Jenny T. Wang, PhD

362.208995073 W2461p 2022

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
by Alice Wong

NEW 362.4092 W87283y 2022

Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller

362.883092 M6471k 2019

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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
by Esmé Weijun Wang

616.898 W2461c 2019

The Peached Tortilla: Modern Asian Comfort Food from Tokyo to Texas
by Eric Silverstein

641.5929 S5877p 2019

 

Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream
by Alvin Cailan

641.59599 C134a 2020

If They Come for Us: Poems
by Fatimah Asghar

811.6 A818i 2018

Togetherness
by Wo Chan

811.6 C4541t 2022

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
by Chen Chen

811.6 C51811w 2017

Bodega: Poems
by Su Hwang

811.6 H991b 2019

Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
by Richard Reeves

940.531773 R332i 2015

The Train to Crystal City
by Jan Jarboe Russell

940.53177 R9611t 2015

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Asian American Histories of the United States
by Catherine Ceniza Choy

973.0495 C5529a 2022

The Making of Asian America: A History
by Erika Lee

973.0495 L4771m 2015

China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston

973.04951 K554c 1989

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino

973.93 T6497t 2019

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After Yang (2021)
dir. Kogonada

DVD AFTER

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The Big Sick (2017)
dir. MIchael Showalter

DVD BIG

Columbus (2017)
dir. Kogonada

DVD COLUMBUS

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
dir. Jon M. Chu

DVD CRAZY

Enter the Dragon (1973)
dir. Robert Clouse

DVD ENTER

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

BLU & DVD EVERYTHING

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The Farewell (2019)
dir. Lulu Wang

DVD FAREWELL

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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
dir. Wayne Wang

DVD JOY

Minari (2020)
dir. Lee Isaac Chung

DVD MINARI

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Mississippi Masala (1991)
dir. Mira Nair

DVD MISSISSIPPI

Saving Face (2004)
dir. Alice Wu

DVD SAVING

Searching (2018)
dir. Aneesh Chagnaty

DVD SEARCHING

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
dir. Destin Daniel Cretton

BLU & DVD SHANG-CHI

Shanghai Noon (2000)
dir. Tom Dey

DVD SHANGHAI

 

Umma (2022)
dir. Iris K. Shim

DVD UMMA

Edinburgh
by Alexander Chee

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All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung

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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Duman

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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
by Angela Garbes

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Silver Like Dust
by Kimi Cunningham Grant

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1001 Cranes
by Naomi Hirahara

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Summer of the Big Bachi
by Naomi Hirahara

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Heart of Fire
by Mazie K. Kirono

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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 
by Cathy Park Hong

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Fresh Off the Boat
by Eddie Huang

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Good Talk: Memoir in Conversations
by Mira Jacob

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An American Family
by Khizr Khan

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The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon

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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
by T Kira Madden

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New Waves
by Kevin Nguyen

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If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
by Neel Patel

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Making a Scene
by Constance Wu

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Win Me Something
by Kyle Lucia Wu

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Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon

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