“The way I write about us, we are the main characters.”

From fiction to memoirs and everything in between, here are 13 books by Asian authors for the bibliophile in your life.

Asian books by Asian authors for the budding young bibliophile in your life.

The Asian Canadian author highlights the everyday resilience racialized communities embark on.

“I’m tired of us all pretending like this system is working. It’s not. We all have to be blunt about it or nothing will ever change,” says R.F. Kuang

Soni’s debut book is a harrowing, gripping journey, and not an easy — but certainly necessary — read.

“Like Min, I also had the experience of being an outsider and maybe feeling even more like a foreigner in Korea than in America—which I think is a very common experience for a lot of Americans who are the children of immigrants,” says the author.

Celebrate this month by putting these 15 new books by Asian authors at the top of your to-read list.

The Canadian author’s debut novels asks the question, “How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings?”

The children’s book demonstrates how self-love is an act of revolution.

On navigating the romance industry as a BIPOC author and incorporating her mental health experiences in her writing.