Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month Through Inspiring Must Read Books: Part Two
- BirdieMama
- 5 days ago
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Welcome to part two of my specially curated book list to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month. If you haven't read part one you can CLICK HERE to do so now. As we dive into this second part of the list, I encourage you to consider the diverse perspectives and backgrounds represented within these pages. Whether you choose to read the books provided in order or prefer to navigate through the list backwards, I hope you find something that piques your interest and resonates with you on a personal level. Each title has been chosen not based on popularity per say but for their individual ability to spark conversations and reflection on the complexities of identity, culture, and belonging. In this installment, you will discover a range of authors, each bringing their unique voice and storytelling style to the forefront. The stories that I have chosen to feature here, reflect a myriad of experiences that highlight the struggles, triumphs, and everyday lives of AAPI individuals. Happy reading!
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-Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Dystopian / Paranormal-
Gergasi Wrath by Aammton Alias
Published: November 20, 2023
Description
Survivors of a demonic massacre in the jungle are trapped in the spirit world, a technologically advanced parallel world, and are caught in a complex existential conflict between Humankind and Buni-an kind.
Captain Sarin and his Prowling Tigers recon team have been tasked to join the Gergasi Clan on a rescue mission and encounter shocking revelations. Azan and his new companion Buni-an spirit; Laila, recover from the previous attack and continue their journey towards the Well of the Seven Kings.
Meanwhile, Adib and his friends who are stuck in Azzah of the Buni-an world head towards Tera Khir town to find the antidote for the stricken and poisoned Dr. Nurul, unaware that a vast army from Hilaga is marching towards them.
This is BOOK 3 of The BU NI AN Conspiracy novel series.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Gergasi Wrath, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9798223593737>.
-Biographical / Authobiographical-
Names for Light by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Published: August 17, 2021
Description
Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family’s history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes inquiries into their stories, she intertwines oral narratives with the official and mythic histories of Myanmar. But while her family’s stories move into the present, her own story—that of a writer seeking to understand who she is—moves into the past, until both converge at the end of the book.
Born in Myanmar and raised in Bangkok and San Jose, Myint finds that she does not have typical memories of arriving in the United States; instead, she is haunted by what she cannot remember. By the silences lingering around what is spoken. By a chain of deaths in her family line, especially that of her older brother as a child. For Myint, absence is felt as strongly as presence. And, as she comes to understand, naming those absences, finding words for the unsaid, means discovering how those who have come before have shaped her life. Names for Light is a moving chronicle of the passage of time, of the long shadow of colonialism, and of a writer coming into her own as she reckons with her family’s legacy.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Names for Light, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781644451540>.
-YA LGBTQ+ Fiction-
Kween by Vichet Chum
Published: October 3, 2023
Description
A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen’s journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo.
Soma Kear’s verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn’t exactly think her slam poetry video through. All she knew was that her rhymes were urgent. On fire. An expression of where she was, and that place…was a hot mess.
Following her Ba’s deportation back to Cambodia, everything’s changed. Her Ma is away trying to help Ba adjust to his new life, and her older sister has taken charge with a new authoritarian tone. Meanwhile, Soma’s trending video pushes her to ask if it’s time to level up. With her school’s spoken word contest looming, Soma must decide: Is she brave enough to put herself out there? To publicly reveal her fears of Ba not returning? To admit that things may never be the same?
With every line she spits, Soma searches for a way to make sense of the world around her. The answers are at the mic.
From debut author Vichet Chum comes a celebration of Khmer identity, queerness, and embracing the complicated histories that shape who we are and want to be.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Kween, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780063223356>.
-Biography / Autobiography-
Ma and me by Putsata Reang
Published: May 16, 2023
Description
When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby, Ma resisted the captain’s orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child’s life. “I had hope, just a little, you were still alive,” Ma would tell Putsata in an oft-repeated story that became family legend.
Over the years, Putsata lives to please Ma and make her proud, hustling to repay her life debt by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, working steadfastly by Ma’s side in the berry fields each summer and eventually building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. But Putsata’s adoration and efforts are no match for Ma’s expectations. When Putsata comes out to Ma in her twenties, Ma tells her it’s just a phase. When Putsata fails to bring home a Khmer boyfriend, it’s because she’s not trying hard enough. When, at the age of forty, Putsata tells Ma she is finally getting married—to a woman—it breaks their bond in two.
In her startling memoir, Putsata Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Ma and Me, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781250867124>.
-Psychological Domestic Fiction-
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Published: May 7, 2019
Description
Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages—and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here—more than you’ve ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, is in desperate search of a better future when she commits to being a “Host” at Golden Oaks—or the Farm, as residents call it. But now pregnant, fragile, consumed with worry for her family, Jane is determined to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm or she will lose the life-changing fee she’ll receive on the delivery of her child.
Gripping, provocative, heartbreaking, The Farm pushes to the extremes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Farm, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025,
-Coming of Age / Mystery Fiction-
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Published: April 21, 2020
Description
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it.
As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Patron Saints of Nothing, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780525554929>.
-YA Fantasy Thriller-
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
Published: June 23, 2023
Description
Danger lurks within the roots of Forest of Souls, an epic, unrelenting tale of destiny and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Susan Dennard, and Netflix's The Witcher!
"A tantalizing beginning to a rich new fantasy series.” —Traci Chee, NYT bestselling author of The Reader trilogy
"Absolutely enchanting.” – Natalie C. Parker, author of Seafire
"You won’t want to escape.” – Sarah Henning, author of the Sea Witch
"Will leave you shouting sisters unite!” – Mindee Arnett, author of Onyx & Ivory and Avalon
Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she’s intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queen’s next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo.
And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life.
Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the domain of the Spider King. For centuries, he has used his influence over the Dead Wood—an ancient forest possessed by souls—to enforce peace between the kingdoms. Now, with the trees growing wild and untamed, only a soulguide can restrain them. As war looms, Sirscha must master her newly awakened abilities before the trees shatter the brittle peace, or worse, claim Saengo, the friend she would die for.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Forest of Souls, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 25 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781624149283>.
-Childrens-
Sticky Rice For Lunch by Jacob Singhavong
Published: December 02, 2023
Description
Kop enjoys eating Lao food! In his lunch pail is khao niao-sticky rice and seen hang-Lao beef jerky. When Kop's classmates see his lunch, several of them make weird faces and laugh at him. He gets embarrassed and does not want to bring Lao food for lunch anymore. What will Kop do? The book's charming illustrations highlight Kop's favorite Lao dishes and a few you may recognize. This story celebrates the Laotian culture, dishes, and language.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Sticky Rice For Lunch, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9798218281670>.
-Poetry-
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Published: April 01, 1997
Description
The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants or a series of ex-boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin displays his remarkable emotional range and voice as a poet. His raw, incantatory, stream-of-consciousness poems confront issues of race, desire, and loss with a compelling urgency that reflects his work as in performance, speaking directly to an audience. Throughout this collection, Chin demonstrates his uncanny ability to convey thought-provoking viewpoints on a variety of controversial subjects.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Bite Hard, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780916397470>.
-Historical / Religious Epic-
Tale of the Dreamer's Son by Preeta Samarasan
To Be Published: November 01, 2022
Description
By the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai
In what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, until the occupants of what is now known as the Muhibbah Centre for World Peace are joined by Salmah, a Malay Muslim woman. "All are welcome here," they are reminded by their spiritual leader, Cyril Dragon, who is ignoring news of the changing political climate with its increasing religious intolerance. He is still trying to forget May 13, 1969, when ethnic tensions boiled over into bloodshed. Tale of the Dreamer's Son guides us from that fateful incident in Malaysian history to the present day. Throughout, Samarasan's polyphonic, rambunctious prose brilliantly navigates the tug-of-war between ideals and reality.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Tale of the Dreamer's Son, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781642861204>.
-Humorous Contemporary Romance-
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
Expected Release: May 25, 2021
Description
On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte.
The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and, ultimately, herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world—and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Sex and Vanity, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780593081938>.
-Biographical Historical Fiction-
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
Expected Release: June 09, 2020
Description
At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich; Anna May Wong, the world’s first Chinese American star; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous—then, infamous.
The trajectories of these women’s lives wind from Weimar Berlin to LA’s Chinatown, from the Bavarian Alps to the Champs-Élysées, and the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. In the orbit of each star live secondary players whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left behind. Intimate and clear-eyed, this is a visceral depiction of womanhood—its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Delayed Rays of a Star, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780525564546>.
-Nautical Action Fantasy-
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
Expected Release: November 14, 2023
Description
In a fantasy adventure every bit as compelling and confident in its world building as her Newbery Honor Book A Wish in the Dark, Christina Soontornvat explores a young woman’s struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one aboard with secrets. When Sai learns that the ship might be heading for the fabled Sunderlands—a land of dragons, dangers, and riches beyond imagining—she must weigh the cost of her dreams. Vivid, suspenseful, and thought-provoking, this tale of identity and integrity is as beautiful and intricate as the maps of old.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Last Mapmaker, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781536230178>.
-Thriller / Suspense / War Story-
The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao
Expected Release: April 28, 2015
Description
A lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon—from the author of Monkey Bridge
A singular work of witness, inspiration, and courage, The Lotus and the Storm marks the welcome return of Lan Cao’s pitch-perfect voice, telling the story only she can tell.
Four decades after the war, Vietnam’s flavors of clove and cinnamon have been re-created by a close-knit refugee community in a Virginia suburb. But the lives of Minh and Mai, father and daughter, are haunted by ghosts, secrets, and the loss of their country. During the disastrous last days in Saigon, in a whirl of military signals and helicopter evacuations, Mai never had a chance to say goodbye to so many people who meant so much to her. What happened to them? How will Mai cope with the trauma of war—and will the thay phap, a Vietnamese spirit exorcist, be able to heal her?
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Lotus and the Storm, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780143127611>.
-LGBTQ+ High Epic Fantasy Fiction-
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Expected Release: March 24, 2020
Description
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.
Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781250750303>.
-Historical Fiction / War Story-
No-No Boy by John Okada
Expected Release: August 01, 2014
Description
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.
No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world."
The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, No-No Boy, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780295994048>.
-YA Paranormal Fantasy-
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
Expected Release: July 21, 2020
Description
An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt.
But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead--her gumiho soul--in the process.
Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl--he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to men. He's drawn to her anyway. When he finds her fox bead, he does not realize he holds her life in his hands.
With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous and reignite a generations-old feud . . . forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon's.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Wicked Fox, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9781984812360>.
-Tween Fiction-
Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
Expected Release: March 24, 2015
Description
Future rock star or friendless misfit? That’s no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.
Publishers Weekly called Blackbird Fly “a true triumph,” and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, “Apple soars like the eponymous blackbird of her favorite Beatles song.”
Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming “too American.” When Apple’s friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It might be the music that saves her . . . or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is.
Erin Entrada Kelly deftly brings Apple’s conflicted emotions to the page in her debut novel about family, friendship, popularity, and going your own way. “A must-read for those kids cringing at their own identities.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Blackbird Fly, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780062238634>.
-YA Science Fiction Fantasy-
The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Expected Release: February 07, 2017
Description
The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo.
As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father’s ship. Modern-day New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii, other lands seen only in myth and legend—Nix has been to them all.
But when her father gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. Rae Carson meets Outlander in this epic debut fantasy.
If there is a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place and any time. But now that he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought—1868 Honolulu, the year before Nix’s mother died in childbirth—Nix’s life, her entire existence, is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix’s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who’s been part of their crew for two years.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, The Girl From Everywhere, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780062380760>.
-Memoir-
Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish
Expected Release: April 22, 2025
Description
Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name--not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even when she finally found her true calling as a chef. In those early days, becoming a chef meant tethering oneself to a restaurant and working in the back of a kitchen, not a television set. But working in the spotlight happened naturally, even if the attention was totally unanticipated. And like most things in Kristen's life, the road was so much more winding and complicated than it may have appeared from the outside.
From growing up as an adoptee in the Midwest, to trying to fit in with all the other girls who were busy dating boys, to coming out and finding love when she least expected it, Kristen learned that, unlike a map, no set of plans or definitions can dictate or explain a life. In fact, accidents happen. Curveballs will come. And even the full-circle moments--like winning Top Chef to becoming its Emmy-nominated host years later--could not have guaranteed these opportunities.
In Accidentally on Purpose, what defines Kristen's story aren't the missteps or even the pleasant surprises that crop up but how she learned to find her voice and use it. Because while accidents may be unexpected, they don't have to be at odds with purpose. And as Kristen approaches life's milestones, big and small, with intention, she realizes at those junctures--the ones beyond the borders of the map, behind-the-scenes, and off camera--are where the decisions and discoveries are made. Where the unexpected meets the intentional. And that's where things get really interesting.
Source Citation:
Bookshop.org 2025, Accidentally on Purpose, Bookshop.org website, Accessed 26 April 2025, <https://bookshop.org/a/109400/9780316580915>
There you have it, friends! After exploring this AAPI Heritage list, what are your thoughts? This list showcases a large amount of voices, encompassing a variety of genres, styles, and themes but obviously isn't a fully comprehensive list. There are countless more authors and narratives waiting to be discovered. With that in mind, I do encourage each and every one of you to do your own additional research if you would like to seek out more AAPI voices and stories. The stories shown here are meant to not only entertain but also educate and inspire. As we come to an end, what stories stood out to you, and which authors do you feel deserve even more recognition? The journey through AAPI literature is one that promises to be enriching, enlightening, and can deepen our appreciation for the experiences of AAPI individuals and communities.
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