Books for AAPI+ Heritage Month

May is Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American Heritage Month! The Federal Asian Pacific American Council has chosen the theme of Advancing Leaders Through Innovation for 2024. Their website is full of historic and current resources for AAPI+ heritage month. Explore this amazing Care Package, poems, meditations, films, and other cultural nutrients for times like this curated with love by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Check out some of our recent ebooks below and visit the library to browse our print book display. 

Recent AAPI+ eBooks: 

• Aina Hanau / Birth Land (poetry) 
  
  by Brandy Nalani McDougall, 2023
• Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend 
  
  by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, 2023
• Asian American Educators and Microaggressions: More Than Just Work(ers)
  
  by Andrew Wu, 2023
• Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
  
  by John McCormick, 2023
• The Chutney Life: 100 Easy-To-Make Indian-Inspired Recipes
  
  by Palak Patel, 2023
• Jar of Fat
  
  by Seayoung Yim, 2023
• The Making of American Buddhism
  
  by Scott A. Mitchell, 2023
• Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
  
  by Eric L. Muller, 2023
• Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp
  
  by Arthur A. Hansen, 2023
• Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-hurt Anti-memoir
  
  by Kawika Guillermo, 2023
• Once Our Lives
  
  by Qin Sun Stubis, 2023
• Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
  
  by Fae Myenne Ng, 2023
• Passport to Shame: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict
  
  by Sam Louie, 2024
• Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre
  
  by Ana Maria Spagna, 2023
• Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape (children's ebook)
  
  by Sam Nakahira, 2024
• When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai'i
  
  by Joy Schulz, 2023
• While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
  
  by Yeonmi Park, 2023

Recommended by AAPI+ Staff: 

• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  
  by Michelle Zauner, 2021
• Great Mahjong Book: History, Lore, and Play
  
  by Jelte Rep, 2006
• The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
  
  by Anthony Christian Ocampo, 2016
• The Loneliest Americans
  
  by Jay Caspian Kang, 2021
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  
  by Cathy Park Hong, 2020
• Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now
  
  by Jeff Yang, et al., 2022
• Time Is a Mother (poetry)
  
  by Ocean Vuong, 2022
• When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
  
  by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 2012

More AAPI+ eBooks:                                                                                                            

• Asian American Histories of the United States
  
  by Catherine Ceniza Choy, 2022
• Ask the Brindled (poetry)
  
  by Noʻu Revilla, 2022
• Awake in the River and Shedding Silence (poetry)
  
  by Janice Mirikitani and Juliana Chang, 2022
• Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
  
  by Eleanor Ty, 2022
• A Bridge of Words: Views Across America and Japan
  
  by Hiroaki Sato, 2022
• Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
  
  by Bruce Henderson, 2022
• Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders
  
  by Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui and Cameron S. White, 2022
• Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
  
  by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, 2022
• Empire and Environment Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
  
  by Jeffrey Santa Ana, et al., 2022
• Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures
  
  by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, et al., 2022
• Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
  
  by Saara Kekki, 2022
• Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas
  
  by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer, 2022
• New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America
  
  by Chrossy Yee Lau, 2022
• Race and Migration in the Transpacific
  
  by Yasuko Takezawa and Akio Tanabe, 2022
• Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs
  
  by Rocio G. Davis, 2022
• Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
  
  by Elena Tajima Creef, 2022
• Tabemasho! Let's Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America
  
  by Gil Asakawa, 2022
• Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour (graphic novel): A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption after World War II
  
  by Andre R. Frattino, et al., 2022
• Two Brown Dots (poetry)
  
  by Danni Quintos and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 2022
• Western Journeys
  
  by Teow Lim Goh, 2022