#20BooksByAsianAuthors

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95 participants (190 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

For readers who'd like to stretch themselves with a numeric goal of reading more Asian authors, this challenge is for you! (For those who would like 9 prompts to diversify their reading of Asian authors, look up the #ReadAsianAuthors2025 challenge). 

Challenge Books

All books added
Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

Of Jade and Dragons

Fall of the Dragon #1

Amber Chen

466 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang

527 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy dark emotional tense medium-paced
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

1 hour, 35 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See

269 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Spiral by Kōji Suzuki

Spiral

Ring #2

Kōji Suzuki

283 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction horror adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Ring by Kōji Suzuki

Ring

Ring #1

Kōji Suzuki

282 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious medium-paced
Slumgirl Dreaming: Rubina's Journey to the Stars by Rubina Ali, Divya Dugar, Anne Berthod

Slumgirl Dreaming: Rubina's Journey to the Stars

Rubina Ali, Divya Dugar, Anne Berthod

192 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring fast-paced
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

Ai Weiwei

176 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction art graphic novel memoir informative reflective slow-paced
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

A Study in Scarlet Women

Lady Sherlock #1

Sherry Thomas

11 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh

The Wrath & the Dawn

The Wrath and the Dawn #1

Renée Ahdieh

404 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced