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Asian American Experiences - Fiction

3/27/2021

Picture Books

The Name Jar, Yangsook Choi, print | ebook
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho & Dung Ho, print
Big Red Lollipop, Rukhsana Khan & Sophie Blackall, print
No Kimchi for Me, Aram Kim, print
Lift, Minh Le & Dan Santat, print
Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding, Lenore Look & Yumi Heo, print
A Different Pond, Bao Phi & Thi Bui, print | ebook
Round Is a Mooncake, Roseanne Thong & Grace Lin, print
Apple Pie Fourth of July, Janet S. Wong & Margaret Chodos-Irvine, print
A Map Into the World, Kao Kalia Yang & Seo Kim, print

Children's Fiction

Astrid & Apollo and the Fishing Flop, V.T. Bidania & Dara Lashia Lee, print
Pashmina, Nidhi Chanani, print
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl, Debbi Michiko Florence, print
Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, Jenny Han, print
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata, print | audio | eaudio
When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller, print | ebook | eaudio
The Land of Forgotten Girls, Erin Entrada Kelly, print | eaudio
I’m Ok, Patti Kim, print | ebook
The Grand Plan to Fix Everything, Uma Krishnaswami, print
Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai, print | ebook | eaudio
The Year of the Dog, Grace Lin, print | ebook | eaudio
A Long Pitch Home, Natalie Dias Lorenzi, print
Prairie Lotus, Linda Sue Park, print | ebook | eaudio
Any Day with You, Mae Respicio, print
Not Your All-American Girl, Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan Long Shang, print
Front Desk, Kelly Yang, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio

Teen Fiction

Love, Hate, and Other Filters, Samira Ahmed, print | ebook
American Panda, Gloria Chao, print
We Are Not Free, Traci Chee, print | ebook | eaudio
I Believe in a Thing Called Love, Maurene Goo, print
When Dimple Met Rishi, Sandhya Menon, print | ebook
A Step from Heaven, An Na, print | eaudio
Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay, print | ebook | eaudio
American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang, print
Frankly in Love, David Yoon, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Satoko and Nada, vol. 1, Yupechika, print

Adult Fiction

America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo, print | ebook
Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha, print | ebook
Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung, print | eaudio
America for Beginners, Leah Franqui, print | audio | ebook
Nights When Nothing Happened, Simon Han, print | ebook
Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara, print | large print
The Bride Test, Helen Hoang, print | ebook | eaudio
Miracle Creek, Angie Kim, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
Searching for Sylvie Lee, Jean Kwok, print | ebook | eaudio
Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee, print
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune, Roselle Lim, print | ebook | eaudio
A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng, print | ebook | eaudio
The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen, print | large print | ebook
A House Is a Body, Shruti Swamy, print
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

Asian American Experiences - Children's Nonfiction

3/17/2021

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, Laura Atkins & Stan Yogi, print
Mai Ya’s Long Journey, Sheila Cohen, print | ebook
The Boy Who Became a Dragon: a Bruce Lee Story, Jim Di Bartolo, print
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind, Cynthia Grady & Amiko Hirao, print
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Jean Walker Harvey & Dow Phumiruk, print
Paper Son: the Inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist, Julie Leung & Chris Sasaki, print | ebook
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla: Reaching for the Stars, Ai-Ling Louie, print
Patsy Mink: Mother of Title IX, Ai-Ling Louie, print
It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Led the Way, Kyo Maclear & Julie Morstad, print
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix, Jacqueline Briggs Martin & June Jo Lee, print
A Hmong Family, Nora Murphy, print
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service, Annette Bay Pimentel & Rich Lo, print
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom, Teresa Robeson & Rebecca Huang, print | ebook
Drawing from Memory, Allen Say, print
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, Andrea Warren, print
The Story of Movie Star Anna Mae Wong, Paula Yoo & Lin Wang, print

Asian American Experiences - Adult Nonfiction

3/17/2021

Monsoon Mansion, Cinelle Barnes, print
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, print | ebook
Family in Six Tones, Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao, print
Ghosts of Gold Mountain, Gordon H. Chang, print
DMZ Colony, Don Mee Choi, print
All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung, print | ebook
Almost American Girl, Robin Ha, print | ebook
The Porcelain Thief, Huan Hsu, print | ebook
Fresh off the Boat, Eddie Huang, print | ebook | eaudio
Only What We Could Carry, ed. Lawson Fusao Inada, print
Knockout, Mia Kang, print
They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, print | ebook
Fairest, Meredith Talusan, print
Sigh, Gone, Phuc Tran, playaway | ebook
Everything Is Beautiful and I’m Not Afraid, Yao Xiao, print
Letters to Memory, Karen Tei Yamashita, print
Dragon Hoops, Gene Luen Yang, print | ebook
The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
The Unwinding of the Miracle, Julie Yip-Williams, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

You can reserve these items on LINKcat, and many are available on Libby through Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(Unfortunately, the links have broken every time we've upgraded the LINKcat system. Links prior to 4/2026 may not work. Direct links to the catalog will no longer be provided on this page.)

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