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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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’...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Lunar New Year Love Story

Lunar New Year Love Story

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed...

Joan Is Okay

Joan Is Okay

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself. Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City...

Kaua’i Storm

Kaua’i Storm

Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this rich and emotional adventure. After ten years as a national park...

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, Book 1

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, Book 1

Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore Àn’yīng’s family apart, leaving her mother barely alive and a baby sister to fend...

Wealth Is A Mindset: Change Your Mind, Change Your Money

Wealth Is A Mindset: Change Your Mind, Change Your Money

In Wealth Is a Mindset, Shang Saavedra, Founder of Save My Cents and top personal finance coach, creates a judgment-free space for readers to learn about personal finance and make...

Rental House

Rental House

A sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations, from award-winning author of Chemistry Weike Wang. Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who...

Private Equity

Private Equity

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture. When we meet Carrie Sun, she...

Sidetracks

Sidetracks

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2024

Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet’s first long poem and his magnum opus―the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal...

Julie Chan Is Dead

Julie Chan Is Dead

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has...

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like...

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old-Tradition

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old-Tradition

100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes that show the range of traditional and modern Chinese vegan cuisine from the creator of The Plant-Based Wok. When Hannah Che decided to become a...

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of...

Tripas: Poems

Tripas: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2023

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who...

Descendant of the Crane

Descendant of the Crane

Tyrants cut out hearts. Rulers sacrifice their own. Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered,...

Strike the Zither, Book 1

Strike the Zither, Book 1

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale...

The Ones We’re Meant to Find

The Ones We’re Meant to Find

Perfect for fans of Marie Lu and E. Lockhart, The Ones We’re Meant to Find is a twisty YA sci-fi that follows the story of two sisters, separated by an...

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a...

Sound the Gong, Book 2

Sound the Gong, Book 2

From New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, comes Sound the Gong, the dazzling and sweeping conclusion to The Kingdom of Three duology. All her life, Zephyr has...

Salt Fish Girl

Salt Fish Girl

Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who...

The Island of Sea Women

The Island of Sea Women

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in...

The Fox Wife

The Fox Wife

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only...

The Making of Asian America

The Making of Asian America

In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long...

Real Americans

Real Americans

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily...

River East, River West

River East, River West

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and...

Mama’s Love Language: Sometimes Love Tastes Like Hainan Chicken Rice

Mama’s Love Language: Sometimes Love Tastes Like Hainan Chicken Rice

Jade is a girl who lives in two worlds and, coming from a multicultural family, she’s on a quest to understand her identity and where she truly belongs. She is...

If You Could See the Sun

If You Could See the Sun

In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates’ most scandalous secrets. Alice Sun has always felt...

This Place is Still Beautiful

This Place is Still Beautiful

A sweeping debut novel about first love, complicated family dynamics, and the pernicious legacy of racism. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi, Jandy Nelson, and Emily X.R. Pan, with crossover...

If You Miss Me

If You Miss Me

A healing story of loss and love, this beautiful picture book reminds us that the people who mean the most to us are always with us. Charlie loves to dance...

An Unreliable Magic

An Unreliable Magic

This second book in the A Hundred Names for Magic trilogy is not your average fairytale. An unforgettable alternative history fairy-tale series from the author of The Bone Witch about...

Land of Big Numbers

Land of Big Numbers

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but...

Wicked As You Wish

Wicked As You Wish

What if every story you’d ever heard was true? Jack killed the giants. Red slayed the wolf. Rapunzel fled the tower. But the greatest one of all, had yet to...

Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American...

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese...

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