Booklist: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – scintilla.info

We at www.scintilla.info have had the privilege of reviewing many books by people whose heritage and ancestry hails from the world’s largest continent. Although this month is specifically devoted to the celebration of Americans who count Asia and the Pacific Islands in their genealogy, we are going to include other Asian authors (i.e. those who are citizens of Asian, European, or other non-US countries) in our list so as to make it as inclusive as possible.

Our apologies to anyone we’ve missed in this list. Asia is a large continent! In many families, including ours, family names do not adequately reflect ancestral homes so we did not rely exclusively on that. If someone should be on this list, please let us know and we will correct it. Any errors or omissions are entirely our fault.

Curtis C. Chen — Waypoint Kangaroo and Kangaroo Too

Eugenia Cheng — The Art of Logic in an Illogical World and

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

Amy Chua — Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Michio Kaku — The Future of Humanity

R.F. Kuang — The Poppy War

Sarah Kuhn — Heroine Complex, Heroine Worship, Heroine’s Journey

  

Kevin Kwan — Crazy Rich Asians trilogy

R.O. Kwon — The Incendiaries

Fonda Lee — Jade City and Zeroboxer

Liu Cixin — Ball Lightning

Ling Ma — Severance

Celeste Ng — Little Fires Everywhere

Vaddey Ratner — In the Shadow of the Banyan and Music of the Ghosts

Thaddeus Rutkowski — Border Crossings and Violent Outbursts

Somini Sengupta — The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young

Vandana Singh — Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories

Shaun Tan — Tales from the Inner City