Asian American Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- by Canwen Xu
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2026
“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...
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret. Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads...
- by Karissa Chen
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2025
An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find...
- 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...
- by Liann Zhang
- Asian American Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Christina Li
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Gothic Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This novel by Christina Li is about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese...
- by Thao Votang
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age
- Publication Year: 2024
Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly’s unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present, perfect for...
- by Kim Ronyoung
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants...
- by Weike Wang
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Jane Pek
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age. Claudia Lin—mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English...
- by Juli Min
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From a wise observer “of the ever-complicated matters of the heart” (Kirstin Chen) comes an unforgettable debut novel about a changing family in a changing world. To the outside world,...
- by Lisa Ko
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? In the early 1980s, Giselle...
- by Kevin Kwan
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners. Rufus Leung...
- by Monika Kim
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Horror Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won’s life tumbles into...
- by Rachel Khong
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- by C. Pam Zhang
- Asian American Fiction, Dystopian, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and,...
- by R.F. Kuang
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most...
- 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...
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family’s expectations as she grapples with a complicated...
- by Juhea Kim
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2022
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school...
- by Ruth Ozeki
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2021
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas...