David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Unless He Gets Into an Ivy League College
By: Ed Lin
3.90
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
“You’re not allowed to have a girlfriend until college,” my mother warned. “And you’d better get in…
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1. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.68
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more
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- fiction
- humor
- young adult
"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)
2. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
3. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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- asian literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
4. Swim Team
By: Johnnie Christmas
4.28
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
5. Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)
By: Sonali Dev
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another , clever, deeply layered, and … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
"You deserve to do what’s best for you."-Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)
"Ah, fresh young love! It was like the smell of cumin roasting in butter: you couldn't hide it for anything."-Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)
"You have no idea how badly I wish you could see my life. Understand it. See me ." "Across the thousands of miles you've always put between us?"-Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)
"Happiness seeps into me when you're around, Rico. Without invitation, without notice, joy finds me. Being around you is being alive, it's breathing, it's home."-Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)
6. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
7. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
8. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
9. Frizzy
By: Claribel A. Ortega
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy
10. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)
By: Emily Oster
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts … read more
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- family
11. Fault Lines
By: Emily Itami
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsivel… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
"But everyone is somebody's baby."-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people?"-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"It's hard to remember who you are, without people who know you that way."-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
"Keeping secrets makes me feel safe. Having a secret makes me feel like nobody owns me, and that any opinion of me could always be inaccurate; no one has the whole picture, so it’s like trying to judg…"-Emily Itami, Fault Lines
12. On a Scale of One to Ten
By: Ceylan Scott
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of John Green and Ned Vizzini, a heart-wrenching and witty novel about a girl with Borderl… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
By: Abigail Hing Wen
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the s… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"I don't care what baggage they dragged over the ocean. They have no right to make me carry it the rest of my life."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"--and at every turn, he finds excuses to touch me, pushing money into my hand, running his palm down my back, around the curve of my waist."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"He takes his time. A slow burn that builds and builds, until I am clawing at the stones and my back arches, and my toes splash and my body ripens under his grip."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
"I snatch my body as well as my bad from Rick. My heart pounds in my throat. His hand and arm have branded themselves through the fabric of my clothes into my skin."-Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
14. Shit Cassandra Saw
By: Gwen E. Kirby
3.83
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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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16. The World's Worst Assistant
By: Sona Movsesian
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a … read more
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- humor
"Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien"-Sona Movsesian, The World's Worst Assistant
17. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
By: Wai Chim
4.01
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
18. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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19. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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20. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
21. David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Unless He Gets Into an Ivy League College
By: Ed Lin
3.90
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
“You’re not allowed to have a girlfriend until college,” my mother warned. “And you’d better get in… read more
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- romance
- high school
- young adult contemporary
- humor
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
