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• Strange Pictures

  Uketsu,

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  A bestselling Japanese mystery novel. Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, to invite readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.

• Long Day? Cook This

  Easy East Asian Recipes With a Twist

  Tsang, Justin,

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  100 simple, flavorful East Asian-inspired recipes for home cooks, blending traditions from China, Korea, Japan, and more with a modern twist.

• A Map for the Missing

  Tang, Belinda Huijuan,

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  A story about family, forgiveness, identity, loss, and the weight of cultural expectations versus personal ambition.

• Violets

  Sin, Kyŏng-suk,

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  A reflection on mental illness, violence, and confusing urges that all propel a sense of deep loneliness.

• Family Style

  Memories of An American From Vietnam

  Pham, Thien,

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  A graphic memoir that chronicles the family's journey as refugees from Vietnam to the United States, using food as a central theme to explore identity, belonging, and the immigrant experience.

• Anna May Wong

  From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend

  Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-

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  The first Chinese-American actor, to have become a star in Hollywood. Upcoming biopic currently in development.

• Flashlight

  a Novel

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  A sprawling family novel, centred around multinational family affected by the North Korean mass abductions of South Koreans during the Korean War.

• We the Gathered Heat

  Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word

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  A diverse anthology of AAPI poetry, spoken word, and performance art pieces.

• I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying

  a Memoir

  Mayer, Youngmi

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  A memoir with a sense of humor about being a bi-racial woman, with a Caucasian father and Korean mother.

• Bad B*tch in the Kitch

  Craveable Asian Recipes to Ditch the Takeout

  Yeung, Cassie,

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  Tik Toker chef Yeung shares popular Asian cuisine.

• Corky Lee's Asian America

  Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

  Lee, Corky, 1947-2021,

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  The late photojournalist Corky Lee's work, showcasing over 200 photographs documenting the Asian American social justice movement from the 1970s to the 2020s.

• Pick a Color

  a Novel

  Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978-

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  An entertaining novel that takes place in one day at a nail salon as the owner navigates the power dynamics with her clients and employees, exploring themes of loneliness, labor, class.

• I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

  Further Conversations With My Psychiatrist

  Paek, Se-hŭi, 1990-2025,

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  Recording the dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, the author also expands on each session with her own reflective micro-essays.

• Goodnight, Tokyo

  Yoshida, Atsuhiro, 1962-

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  Set over several nights, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., in and around Tokyo, this collection of short stories details various intersections of the lives of its characters.