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This Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrate the many cultures and stories within the AANHPI community with books by authors of Asian, East Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage and cultures.
A partial list, including staff recommendations, local media recommendations, local best-seller lists...
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$49.95
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2015
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ISBN: 9780393541212
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 8th, 2022
Staff recommended.
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ISBN: 9781324005254
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Published: Norton Young Readers - September 1st, 2020
Convinced that pizza is the best food, Pipo will eat nothing else until her fed-up parents send her on a quest to prove that no dishes in their multicultural neighborhood are better.
Review Quotes: Chef and food writer Lopez-Alt brings his enthusiasm for food to the bouncy, lively lines of this picture book...with stylized figures and playful background details Ruggiero spotlights not only the ingredients and dishes but also the realistic diversity of Pipo's multicultural neighborhood. --Sarah Hunter "Booklist"
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525576235
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Published: Crown - October 11th, 2022
Staff recommended.
A "provocative and sweeping" (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and re-imagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world.
"[Kang's] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come."--Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316531085
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Published: Mulholland Books - May 9th, 2023
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$16.99
ISBN: 9780316267731
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Published: Mulholland Books - September 19th, 2017
Staff recommended.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593328798
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Published: Riverhead Books - January 3rd, 2023
Staff recommended.
$24.95
ISBN: 9780295749778
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Published: University of Washington Press - May 3rd, 2022
Staff recommended.
Sharing a life inextricably connected to his community and the generation that came before him, this memoir is a tribute to Filipino Seattle.
$15.99
ISBN: 9781328460141
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Published: Mariner Books - May 1st, 2018
Staff recommended.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male--including an extraordinary posthumous coda, "My Family's Slave"
$26.00
ISBN: 9780385547772
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Published: Doubleday - September 27th, 2022
Staff recommended.
2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner!
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
"Quietly wrenching. . . To say that this book is about grief or coming-of-age doesn't quite do it justice; nor is it mainly about being Asian American, even though there are glimmers of that too. . . This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion -- all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life. . . Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of "Stay True" sneaks up on you, and the wry jokes are threaded seamlessly throughout." --The New York Times
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984820389
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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021
Staff recommended. The poet and essayist fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative — and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
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ISBN: 9780525562047
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Published: Penguin Books - June 1st, 2021
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593300251
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Published: Penguin Books - June 6th, 2023
$16.00
ISBN: 9781556594953
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 5th, 2016
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ISBN: 9781556595745
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 7th, 2020
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ISBN: 9781556596322
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 26th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781556596452
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 11th, 2023
$22.00
ISBN: 9781556591952
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - September 1st, 2003
For the first time in any Western language, the complete text of China's classic poetry anthology. From Copper Canyon Press.
$16.99
ISBN: 9780312144074
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - April 15th, 1996
Staff recommended.
$18.00
ISBN: 9781501154836
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Published: Scribner - April 3rd, 2018
Staff recommended.
$18.99
ISBN: 9781455563920
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 14th, 2017
Staff recommended.
Review Quotes:
"Stunning... Despite the compelling sweep of time and history, it is the characters and their tumultuous lives that propel the narrative... A compassionate, clear gaze at the chaotic landscape of life itself. In this haunting epic tale, no one story seems too minor to be briefly illuminated. Lee suggests that behind the facades of wildly different people lie countless private desires, hopes and miseries, if we have the patience and compassion to look and listen."-- The New York Times Book ReviewReview Quotes:
"In 1930s Korea, an earnest young woman, abandoned by the lover who has gotten her pregnant, enters into a marriage of convenience that will take her to a new life in Japan. Thus begins Lee's luminous novel "Pachinko" -- a powerful meditation on what immigrants sacrifice to achieve a home in the world. "Pachinko" confirms Lee's place among our finest novelists." -- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593492543
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Published: Penguin Press - October 4th, 2022
Staff recommended.
$20.00
ISBN: 9780451491336
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Published: Berkley - October 23rd, 2018
Staff recommended.
A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy--the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers!
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593186060
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Published: Tiny Reparations Books - April 4th, 2023
Staff recommended. College students of Chinese heritage want to return looted treasures to the rightful country, China. So of course a few museum heists are the answer!
Complicated relationships with each other and with some of the parents [one dad works in the art theft division!] Ocean's 11-inspired globe trotting heists make for a page-turning read! Oh. and did i mention the other heist team?! Really fun read. ~ElaineA senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major, and eldest son who has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible — and illegal — job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. Inspired by true events, "Portrait of a Thief" is equal parts beautiful, thoughtful, and thrilling. It is a cultural heist and an examination of Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique on the lingering effects of colonialism.
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226370
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Published: Catapult - October 15th, 2019
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$29.99
ISBN: 9780063031616
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Published: Ecco - April 4th, 2023
In her second memoir, Chung looks at the politics of class, race and home. Chung, who was adopted, grew up in a mostly white community on the West Coast, and didn’t realize until she left home how economically vulnerable her family was. As she established a career, she grappled with guilt about having surpassed her parents, and years later, she sees how economic inequality has profound consequences for the end of life — even though death is called an equalizing force.
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ISBN: 9780525557371
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Published: Penguin Press - April 25th, 2023
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America.
"Mott Street" follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address."
$16.95
ISBN: 9781639363803
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Published: Pegasus Crime - March 14th, 2023
Moira MacDonald recommendation in The Seattle Times, here. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/moira-macdonald-recommends-some-atmospheric-thrillers/
$26.95
ISBN: 9781639363704
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Published: Pegasus Crime - March 28th, 2023
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ISBN: 9780385549301
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Published: Doubleday - February 28th, 2023
This debut is a punchy page-turner imbued with dark comedy and trenchant social commentary. Strap yourself in and enjoy the ride, Malcolm Forbes writes. A review here.
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984898951
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Published: Vintage - March 28th, 2023
Book captures an experience Seattle-area residents know well
Their mecca was H Mart, which Michelle Zauner describes in her memoir and 2018 New Yorker essay as "a beautiful, holy place."
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/why-crying-in-h-mart-is-a-spiritual-experience/
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802124944
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Published: Grove Press - April 12th, 2016
Staff recommended.
Pulitzer Prize Winner.
$28.99
ISBN: 9781685890346
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Published: Melville House - March 21st, 2023
In Jinwoo Chong’s debut novel, “Flux,” a time-warping discovery impacts the lives of three people coping with personal and systemic traumas. Full review in The New York Times, here.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593469347
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Published: Vintage - March 28th, 2023
NYT recommended: After Ro’s boyfriend leaves to train for a Mars mission, her best friend gets engaged and the mall aquarium where she works decides to sell Dolores, the giant Pacific octopus her missing biologist father discovered. Amid all these upheavals, Ro needs to grapple with her past and forge a way forward.
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ISBN: 9780593243398
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Published: Random House - February 7th, 2023
NYT recommended: Rushdie’s new novel recounts the long life of Pampa Kampana, who creates an empire from magic seeds in 14th-century India. Her world is one of peace, where men and women are equal and all faiths welcome, but the story Rushdie tells is of a state that forever fails to live up to its ideals.
$27.00
ISBN: 9781640095663
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Published: Counterpoint - January 24th, 2023
NYT Recommended: A comedic take on the trials of immigration, Ma’s latest novel follows a Chinese man who is woefully unprepared for his move to America, but who powers through thanks to his belief that generosity and connection always exist among his fellow countrymen.
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ISBN: 9781250852816
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Published: Roaring Brook Press - March 28th, 2023
For Young Adult readers. This smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel from bestselling author Marie Lu puts a superstar global phenomenon and a hotshot young spy on a collision course with danger - and Cupid's arrow - in an electric new series.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593420119
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 28th, 2023
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about an aching love story and powerful coming-of-age that reckons with the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity. The Great Reclamation confronts the wounds of progress, the sacrifices of love, and the difficulty of defining home when nature and nation collide.
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307948472
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Published: Vintage - November 17th, 2020
From the infinitely inventive author of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593312087
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Published: Vintage - March 29th, 2022
A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author — her first in nearly a decade — about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.
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ISBN: 9780593321201
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Published: Knopf - July 5th, 2022
In this exhilarating novel, two friends — often in love, but never lovers — come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Spanning thirty years, this is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.
$17.00
ISBN: 9781101972083
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Published: Vintage - June 30th, 2020
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735223721
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Published: Penguin Books - August 18th, 2020
"Know My Name" will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.
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ISBN: 9780593466629
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Published: Anchor - January 24th, 2023
Seattle Reads Title 2023. So much information about Seattle Reads is here!
And information about Julie Otsuka visiting Seattle May 19-20, 2023, is here.For a group of swimmers, the local community pool is a refuge from daily life. There they can find solace in the routine, surrounded by familiar faces but able to only concentrate on the laps ahead of them. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are all cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. This is especially hard for Alice, a woman who is slowly losing her memory, and her estranged daughter who reenters her mother’s life just in time to watch her decline.
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ISBN: 9780593328330
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 26th, 2022
In a country that is already turned upside down by World War II, Meiko and her daughter, Aiko, were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. Meiko tries to make this transition as normal for Aiko as possible, but when a mysterious disease begins to spread, Meiko teams up with her fellow detainees to investigate. Though it is difficult to find answers, what they do know is that something sinister is at work in the camp… Inspired by Japanese folklore, this is a thrilling examination of the supernatural and the natural, and when it becomes difficult to decide which is worse.
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ISBN: 9780345505347
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 6th, 2009
Local author. Staff recommended.
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982158224
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Published: Atria Books - May 2nd, 2023
2023 PNBA Book Award Winner.
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143124870
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Published: Penguin Books - December 31st, 2013
Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, this is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316540537
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - December 6th, 2022
A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor, inviting us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. "A miraculous, transcendental book." (Ed Yong, author of "An Immense World")
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature.
$17.99
ISBN: 9781524759230
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Published: Clarkson Potter - May 24th, 2022
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593549223
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Published: Berkley - March 14th, 2023
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593315651
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Published: Anchor - March 21st, 2023
$18.99
ISBN: 9781547610815
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Published: Bloomsbury YA - February 28th, 2023
For Young Adult Readers.
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063093584
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Published: Ecco - December 6th, 2022
Local author.
$16.95
ISBN: 9781641293693
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Published: Soho Crime - June 28th, 2022
2022 Edgar Award Winner. Set in 1944 Chicago, this eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593598108
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Published: Ballantine Books - June 6th, 2023
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250811806
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Published: Flatiron Books - April 4th, 2023
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250867124
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Published: Picador - May 16th, 2023
2023 PNBA Book Award Winner
An excellently interwoven story of the refugee experience, Americanization of immigrant children, tension and trauma between mothers and daughters, and the lingering effects of war. With a journalist's eye and a creative writer's heart, Reang has crafted a memorable memoir with poignant lines I'll bookmark for life
May 30, 2022. Putsata Reang finds home with and away from her mom in memoir "Ma and Me"
Review in The Seattle Times here.
$18.99
ISBN: 9781536204308
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Published: Candlewick - February 8th, 2022
For readers age 6 and up!
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593463055
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Published: Dial Books - May 3rd, 2022
For readers age 4 and up!
$18.99
ISBN: 9781728262314
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Published: Sourcebooks Explore - April 4th, 2023
For readers age 4 and up!
$8.99
ISBN: 9780823451180
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Published: Neal Porter Books - April 5th, 2022
For readers age 3 and up!
$18.99
ISBN: 9781534497351
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - May 3rd, 2022
For readers age 4 and up!
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063079236
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Published: HarperCollins - June 7th, 2022
For readers age 4 and up!
$18.99
ISBN: 9780823449774
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Published: Holiday House - March 7th, 2023
For readers age 4 and up!
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063026926
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Published: HarperCollins - April 5th, 2022
For readers age 4 and up!