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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of...

I Love You Don’t Die

I Love You Don’t Die

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York...

One & Only

One & Only

A funny and fresh love story of a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything. She knows what her happily ever...

The Poet Empress

The Poet Empress

Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy. Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of...

Bad Asians

Bad Asians

An affecting novel about an unforgettable group of friends trying to make their way in the world without losing themselves, or one another. Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian were always...

Superfan

Superfan

A novel about a pop idol and his superfan, whose stories shockingly collide. Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass...

Etna

Etna

Paul Yoon is back with the unforgettable story of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home. Set in...

The Typing Lady

The Typing Lady

A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after...

Babylon, South Dakota

Babylon, South Dakota

A tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. When...

My Dear You

My Dear You

A brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else. The characters in My Dear...

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a...

A Quantum Love Story

A Quantum Love Story

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend’s recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start...

Light Years from Home

Light Years from Home

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father...

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who,...

The Spear Cuts Through Water

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds....

Peri Peri Paprika

Peri Peri Paprika

Moss is a pilot aboard the Rusty Raccoon, a trash collection ship traveling through interstellar space. Moss is sleepwalking through existence, but when she stumbles across her supervisor Turnip attempting...

The Deep Sky

The Deep Sky

Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the...

The Genesis of Misery

The Genesis of Misery

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang’s debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses,...

The Celestial Seas

The Celestial Seas

A tale of identity, love, and the hunt for vengeance in the darkest corners of space. Ishara Ming is the sole survivor of a spacefaring whaler destroyed by the Ballena,...

We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here

A sci-fi thriller that explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change. Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s...

The Stardust Grail

The Stardust Grail

Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous job...

Saltcrop

Saltcrop

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation. In Earth’s...

The Secret World of Briar Rose

The Secret World of Briar Rose

A lush and immersive queer “Sleeping Beauty” retelling about escapism, grief, and dreaming of a better world, as imagined by YouTube star Cindy Pham. One hundred years have passed since...

Mammoths at the Gates, Book 4

Mammoths at the Gates, Book 4

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric...

A Mouthful of Dust, Book 6

A Mouthful of Dust, Book 6

Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served...

Light from the Uncommon Stars

Light from the Uncommon Stars

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil:...

The Bridges of High Hill, Book 5

The Bridges of High Hill, Book 5

The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride’s party is...

She Who Became the Sun, Book 1

She Who Became the Sun, Book 1

She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything. “I...

He Who Drowned the World, Book 2

He Who Drowned the World, Book 2

The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. How much would you give...

Light Burned, Book 3

Light Burned, Book 3

Prophecies collide in this explosive finale to USA Today bestselling author Jayci Lee’s epic romantasy series. Can one obstinate fox spirit save the worlds, even if it means destroying her...

Three Shattered Souls, Book 3

Three Shattered Souls, Book 3

Some betrayals cut deeper than blades. The Blades were never supposed to survive this long. But after the battle in Quu Harbor, escaping is no longer enough. The most dangerous...

The Nightblood Prince

The Nightblood Prince

Two kingdoms on the brink of battle. One prophesied empress to unite them, who finds herself caught between two princes, and the fact that love alone may not stop the...

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, Book 1

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, Book 1

In this magical epic fantasy, the gripping first novel of the Gods Beyond the Skies series, a young woman gifted with the power of Death must decide if saving her...

Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Book 1

Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Book 1

A captivating and romantic debut epic fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against...

King Foretold, Book 2

King Foretold, Book 2

Korean folklore and modern culture entwine in this epic fantasy about a reluctant heroine who must deny her fated love to battle the dark forces that threaten to end her...

Nine Tailed, Book 1

Nine Tailed, Book 1

An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in...

Wrath of the Talon, Book 2

Wrath of the Talon, Book 2

Everyone thinks the Reaper of Sunpo―eighteen-year-old assassin Shin Lina―is dead. The only ones who know the truth are her cherished little sister and Haneul Rui, the icily gorgeous Dokkaebi Emperor,...

The Dragon Wakes with Thunder, Book 2

The Dragon Wakes with Thunder, Book 2

A young woman who wields the unimaginable power of a dragon spirit must decide where her loyalties lie—and where her heart belongs—in this enthralling fantasy that reimagines the legend of...

Give Me a Reason

Give Me a Reason

A K-drama actress gets her second chance at love with the man she left to save her family, if only she can work up the courage to risk her heart...

Four Ruined Realms, Book 2

Four Ruined Realms, Book 2

The King of Yusan may be the greatest liar of them all. His sister’s ring is in his sights, and he will do anything to get what he wants. Even...

Last of the Talons, Book 1

Last of the Talons, Book 1

After the destruction of her entire Talon gang, eighteen-year-old Shin Lina―the Reaper of Sunpo―is forced to become a living, breathing weapon for the kingdom’s most-feared crime lord. All that keeps...

Reign of the Talon, Book 3

Reign of the Talon, Book 3

How do you kill a prophecy? The Prophecy has arrived…and with her, war. A prisoner caged within the walls of her own mind, the once-fierce assassin known as Shin Lina...

Five Broken Blades, Book 1

Five Broken Blades, Book 1

It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective:...

The God and the Gwisin, Book 2

The God and the Gwisin, Book 2

In this swoony sequel to The God and the Gumiho, a trickster god must work with his reincarnated lost love to solve his brother’s murder on board a luxury underworld...

The God and the Gumiho, Book 1

The God and the Gumiho, Book 1

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before...

Boring Asian Female

Boring Asian Female

“Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re too boring. Well, in that case, she’ll have...

Eureka

Eureka

Eureka is a gorgeous and emotionally resonant novel-in-verse by multiple-award-winning poet Victoria Chang that sensitively and lyrically renders the tragic events surrounding the 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka,...

Hold Me Like a Grudge

Hold Me Like a Grudge

When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this dazzling debut romance. From dramatic character gimmicks to...

The Last Contract of Isako

The Last Contract of Isako

A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the...

How to Read Now: Essays

How to Read Now: Essays

How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or...

The Strength of Water

The Strength of Water

“Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” —Lao TzuIn 1920s Detroit. King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’...

Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories. Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hong Kong, and Hachijo-jima, the six stories...

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Things in Nature Merely Grow is Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her sons James and Vincent. “There is no good way...

Strangers in the Land

Strangers in the Land

From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle...

The South

The South

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels...

Primordial

Primordial

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2025

Mai Der Vang’s poetry―lyrically insistent and visually compelling―constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of...

Pick a Color

Pick a Color

A revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don’t...

An Oral History of Atlantis

An Oral History of Atlantis

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, written by Ed Park. In “Machine City” a college student’s chance role in a friend’s movie blurs the line...

Mỹ Documents

Mỹ Documents

The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this “rich, gripping novel that lands squarely as a mirror of our contemporary...

Moderation

Moderation

A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace—bringing Castillo’s trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love. Girlie...

Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel. A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman...

Flashlight

Flashlight

One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked...

The Book of Records

The Book of Records

A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea,...

All That We See or Seem

All That We See or Seem

Former “orphan hacker” Julia Z is thrust into a high-stakes adventure where she must use her AI-whispering skills to unravel a virtual reality mystery, rescue a kidnapped dream artist, and...

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How...

Magically Generated

Magically Generated

A jaded woman falls for her sunshine neighbor in this cozy Christmas romance. Nora Blackburn is suspicious of everything she sees and hears. Is it fake? Is someone trying to...

Bad Bad Girl

Bad Bad Girl

An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. Gish’s mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain...

Watercress

Watercress

A story about the power of sharing memories—including the painful ones—and the way our heritage stays with and shapes us, even when we don’t see it. While driving through Ohio...

Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?

Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?

In Japan, the number of “Special Permanent Residents”―most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called “Zainichi”―is declining, according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are...

Legacies of Incarceration: The World War II Experience of Hawai’i’s Japanese

Legacies of Incarceration: The World War II Experience of Hawai’i’s Japanese

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi’s Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during, and...

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City. Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens...

Julia Song Is Undateable

Julia Song Is Undateable

CEO seeks dating coach. Julia Song, CEO of Starlight Cosmetics, is at the height of her career. Then why does she feel like such a failure? Maybe because she’s thirty...

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman’s OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race...

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of...

The Unveiling

The Unveiling

A genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacy. Striker isn’t entirely sure she should be on...

Where Are You Really From

Where Are You Really From

From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard...

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus, Book 2

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus, Book 2

In the breathtaking sequel to The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, the battle has just begun. With Àn’yīng’s kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction, and amidst a budding forbidden...

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope

In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen’s life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard University. Determined not to let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA...

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of...

Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest, Book 2

Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest, Book 2

Check out acclaimed author Julie C. Dao’s debut middle grade series, featuring a team of kids ready for any challenge–even saving the fantasy world of Pantaera from dark forces and...

Team Chu and the Wild Ghost Chase, Book 3

Team Chu and the Wild Ghost Chase, Book 3

In this Team Chu adventure, Vietnamese-American siblings Clip and Sadie Chu―and friends―must unearth the mystery behind a haunted Halloween carnival. When Iggy Morales’s stylish cat, Tuba, becomes famous on social...

Silver and Smoke

Silver and Smoke

It’s the golden age of Hollywood. For two Vietnamese dreamers, success means conjuring a magical break in a spellbinding novel about the frightening price of fame by Van Hoang. More...

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, Book 1

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, Book 1

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past—and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic fantasy series inspired...

Chemistry

Chemistry

Smart, moving, and funny, a unique coming-of-age story about a quirky, overworked narrator who seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life but finds herself on a new...

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

A dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl’s quest to become Empress. Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is...

Now Comes the Mist

Now Comes the Mist

Dracula’s Lucy Westenra like you’ve never seen her before: In this retelling from critically acclaimed author Julie C. Dao, the perfect woman bites back. Lucy Westenra is beautiful, rich, loved...

Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White, Book 2

Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White, Book 2

The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. The Demon Gods...

Illusive

Illusive

After four years of hell, Katie Wu is finally safe. Too bad her heart hasn’t gotten the memo. When pop singer Katie Wu returns to Seoul after escaping an abusive...

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

A memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

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