Books Written by Vietnamese Authors
- by Cindy Pham
- Teen Fantasy, Teen Legends, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- by Kevin Nguyen
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...
- 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...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Julie C. Dao
- 8-12 Years, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- by Julie C. Dao
- 8-12 Years, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Van Hoang
- Coming of Age, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Julie C. Dao
- Teen Fantasy, Teen Fantasy Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
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...
- by Julie C. Dao
- Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Julie C. Dao
- 8-12 Years, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2023
A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena is the first book in a commercial middle grade fantasy series...
- by Loan Le
- Teen Dystopian, Teen Romantic Comedy, Teen Science Fiction, Young Adult
- Publication Year: 2025
In this sweet, incredibly heartfelt companion to A Pho Love Story, Vietnamese Americans Viet and Evie juggle family expectations with their desire to forge their own path in between college...
- Teen Science Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The author of the New York Times bestselling horror phenomenon She Is a Haunting is back with a novel about the monsters that swim beneath us . . . and...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2024
When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high...
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen LGBTQ+ Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling their families’ histories―and eating all the...
- by Ocean Vuong
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2017
The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. With the coruscating gaze that informed...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and...
- City Life Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2021
The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the...
- by K.T. Nguyen
- Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie “Anh Le”...
- by Ali Wong
- Celebrity, Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
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...
- Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense, War Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist...
- by Vanessa Le
- Fantasy, Teen Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A pulse-pounding new YA fantasy in which “you’ll gasp, you’ll scream, you’ll cry, and you’ll be begging for the next book.” (Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These...
- by Vanessa Le
- Teen Fantasy, Teen Romance, Young Adult
- Publication Year: 2025
These Violent Delights meets Divine Rivals in the explosive finale to The Last Bloodcarver duology — with a riveting medical magic system and lush Vietnam-inspired romantasy world. Kochin is a...
- by Elisa Stad
- 4-6 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome...
- by Loan Le
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Young Adult
- Publication Year: 2021
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their...
- Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
In this gorgeous debut graphic novel, fairy tales are the only way one boy can communicate with his Vietnamese immigrant parents. But how will he find the words to tell...
- by Eric Nguyen
- Family Life
- Publication Year: 2021
A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut...
- Cooking, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami. Through powerful narrative, archival imagery, and 20 Vietnamese...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2003
Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells...
- by Ocean Vuong
- Culture and Heritage, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong ”Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” — The Washington Post How else...
- by Ocean Vuong
- Culture and Heritage, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from...