Books Written by Filipina/o/x Authors
- Action & Adventure Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
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....
- Essays, Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Mike Curato
- Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love. I know I’m not...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Set in Hilo, Hawai’i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women—a tale of mothers and daughters, dance...
- by Thea Guanzon
- Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2023
The fates of two bitter enemies with opposing magical abilities are swept together in The Hurricane Wars, the spellbinding debut in a fantasy romance trilogy set in a Southeast Asia–inspired...
- by Thea Guanzon
- Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
Two hearts circle each other in the eye of the storm in this highly-anticipated follow-up to The Hurricane Wars—prepare for more enemies-to-lovers romance, magical adventures, and political schemes in this...
- Demographic Studies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This empowering book blends history, storytelling, and culturally grounded techniques to equip readers with the tools needed to promote self-reflection, personal growth, and diasporic healing. Asian Americans represent the fastest...
- by Geena Rocero
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of...
- Graphic Novels, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father’s new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of...
- by Tracy Badua
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
HBO’s Insecure meets Dazed and Confused in this messy, tender YA novel about a friendship breakup, set against the backdrop of a chaotic night at a music festival, from rising...
- by Jen Soriano
- Biology, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together...
- Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In Teaching the Invisible Race, anti-bias and anti-racist educator and researcher Tony DelaRosa (he, siya) delivers an insightful and hands-on treatment of how to embody a pro-Asian American lens in...
- by E.P. Tuazon
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and...
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
- Publication Year: 2021
A RUSA Award-winning novel! The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer…. When Lila Macapagal moves back...
Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala. Things are heating...
- by Rin Chupeco
- Fantasy, Teen Fantasy, Young Adult
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties....
- by Rin Chupeco
- Alternate History Science Fiction, Fantasy, Teen Fantasy, Young Adult
- Publication Year: 2020
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...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2011
After thirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to his birthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heat and chaos of the city, he encounters a motley...
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent...
What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get...
- Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2019
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of...
When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by Mia...
- by Berna Anat
- Nonfiction, Personal Finance
- Publication Year: 2023
So no one taught you about money, either? Let’s figure this me$$ out together. In this illustrated, deeply unserious guide to money, Berna Anat—aka the Financial Hype Woman—freaks out her...
- Culture and Heritage, Graphic Novels, Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I...
When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila...
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes a powerful memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and...