Books Written by Mixed Culture Authors
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved award-winning memoirist...
- Nonfiction, Science
- Publication Year: 2026
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos. In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr....
- by Ruth Ozeki
- Fiction, Paranormal Fantasy, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- Black Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions....
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
“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’...
- Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together....
- by Susan Choi
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Zadie Smith
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist...
- by Tessa Hulls
- Graphic Novels, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Quan Barry
- Fiction, Horror Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- Family Life
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- 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...
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2021
Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man...
- Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy. Even...
- Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2021
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and...
- Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2022
Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun—finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and...
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. It’s the...
- 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...
- Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her...
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some...
- Contemporary Romance, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy,...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to...
- Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire) In...
- Black Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a...
- Teen Civil & Human Rights, Young Adult Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid, Tiffany Jewell, this YA nonfiction book, highlighting inequities Black and Brown students face...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
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...
- Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
It’s the end of the world as they know it—or so they think… When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing...
- by Brandon Som
- 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...
- by Lisa See
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- by Lisa See
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
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...
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony-only, this isn’t fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution—and how youth lead the...
- 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...
- Culture and Heritage, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American–“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her...
- Business and Entrepreneurship, Career, Inspiration and Personal Growth, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2021
While anyone can make achieve success, the reality is not everyone has equitable access to the necessary tools to reach it. This stems from an inequity rooted in our networks....