The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The…
Want to Read $ 14.99"These cultural generalizations, perhaps correctly, reduce the history of immigration to a binary. When immigrants come into this country, whether they join the labor force, like the Irish, Mexicans, and Central Americans, or they become small-time entrepreneurs, oftentimes in Black neighborhoods. Regardless of their choice, their economic asesion will depend on their relationship with Black Americans. If you accept this analysis, Black people are the only race in America. Everyone else is either white or on their way to becoming white. The new Asians, much like the Jews and the Irish before them, will one day be white, and their dream of generic Americanness will be achieved."-Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans
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1. The Making of Asian America: A History
By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
2. MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
By: Chad Harbach
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Writers write--but what do they do for money? In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestsel… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
3. Double Cup Love
By: Eddie Huang
2.88
Format: None pages,
In the follow-up to his bestselling coming-of-age memoir Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit show on ABC,… read more
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4. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
5. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- asian literature
- race
- audiobook
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
6. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- asian literature
- audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
7. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
By: Jeff Yang
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Cultural critic Jeff Yang, blogger Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man, and Wong Fu Productions’ Philip Wang… read more
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- biography
- history
- asia
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
"If you go to an “Asian American and Pacific Islander"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"The project was already in development before I joined the division. I was at Touchstone Pictures in live action, and I had heard that they were doing Mulan, it was picking up heat, and they were int…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"American culture tends to see Asians as weak and in need of white people to come save us. That’s especially true in pop culture about the Vietnam War. The narrative is all about what Americans went t…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
8. Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
3.94
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- audiobook
"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
9. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- race
- biography
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- asian literature
- audiobook
10. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
By: Elise Hu
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The… read more
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- race
- biography
- history
- memoir
- asia
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- asian literature
- audiobook
"These cultural generalizations, perhaps correctly, reduce the history of immigration to a binary. When immigrants come into this country, whether they join the labor force, like the Irish, Mexicans, …"-Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans
13. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- race
- biography
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
14. Which Side Are You On
By: Ryan Lee Wong
3.60
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian … read more
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- politics
- race
- audiobook
15. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Miki Brina
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- asia
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
16. These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
By: Eva Fedderly
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“ These Walls reframes the debate the country's incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on ar… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
By: Jenny Wang
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to rad… read more
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- asian literature
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When someone becomes angry with you, it is not your job to make them feel better; it is their job to learn skills to hold space for that anger and make themselves feel better. It is also their respon…"-Jenny Wang, Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
18. My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
By: CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces on the experience of growing up… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- asian literature
- audiobook
19. The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
By: Wesley Yang
3.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex withou… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- asian literature
"My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the mids…"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"…it also emphasizes the danger of the improper sequencing of different elements of political development: too much rule of law too soon can strain the development of an effective state, as happened i…"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"[…] as the bearer of an Asian face in America, you paid some incremental penalty, never absolute, but always omnipresent, that meant that you were by default unlovable and unloved; that you were pres…"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"You know those short, brown-toned South American immigrants that pick your fruit, slaughter your meat, and bus your tables? Would you—a respectable person with a middle-class upbringing—ever consider…"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
20. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
By: Emma Specter
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
21. Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
By: Albert Samaha
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolen… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- asia
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
