“Read people who are in racial groups other than your own. If you’re a man, read women. Listen to your friends who are non-white — and if you don’t have non-white friends, that’s a problem.” – Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. If you are looking for a place to start, read some of these titles or many titles from Asian American, Asian, or Pacific Islander authors on our shelves.
Fiction
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
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The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
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Non-Fiction
All you can Ever Know : a Memoir by Nicole Chung
The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls : a Memoir by T Kira Madden
Minor Feelings : an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston