Best Asian American Books of 2016
a compilation of 2016's best Asian American (and Asian books in English translation) from NPR , NYTimes 100 Notable Books, the Guardian, and The Atlantic.
FICTION
The Reader by Traci Chee [a review]
The Story Of Hong Gildong, edit. and translated by Minsoo Kang
Book Uncle And Me by Uma Krishnaswami [a review]
When The Sea Turned To Silver by Grace Lin [a review]
The Opposite Zoo by Il Sung Na [a review]
Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung [a review]
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan [a review]
Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu [a review]
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts Of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri [a review]
The Story Of A Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam [a review]
The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang [a review]
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [a review]
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies [a review]
A Change Of Heart by Sonali Dev [a review]
The Vegetarian by Han Kang [a review]
The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew [a review]
Death's End by Cixin Liu [a review]
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu [a review]
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan [a review]
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen [a review]
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota [a review]
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif [a review]
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien [a review]
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong [a review]
The Border Of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang [a review]
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara [a review]
NONFICTION
Black Lotus: A Woman's Search For Racial Identity by Sil Lai Abrams [a review]
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee [a review]
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong [a review]
The Indian Cooking Course by Monisha Bharadwaj [a review]
Cook Korean! A Comic Book With Recipes by Robin Ha [a review]
Mastering The Art Of Japanese Home Cooking by Masaharu Morimoto [a review]
a compilation of 2016's best Asian American (and Asian books in English translation) from NPR , NYTimes 100 Notable Books, the Guardian, and The Atlantic.
FICTION
The Reader by Traci Chee [a review]
The Story Of Hong Gildong, edit. and translated by Minsoo Kang
Book Uncle And Me by Uma Krishnaswami [a review]
When The Sea Turned To Silver by Grace Lin [a review]
The Opposite Zoo by Il Sung Na [a review]
Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung [a review]
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan [a review]
Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu [a review]
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts Of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri [a review]
The Story Of A Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam [a review]
The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang [a review]
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [a review]
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies [a review]
A Change Of Heart by Sonali Dev [a review]
The Vegetarian by Han Kang [a review]
The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew [a review]
Death's End by Cixin Liu [a review]
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu [a review]
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan [a review]
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen [a review]
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota [a review]
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif [a review]
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien [a review]
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong [a review]
The Border Of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang [a review]
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara [a review]
NONFICTION
Black Lotus: A Woman's Search For Racial Identity by Sil Lai Abrams [a review]
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee [a review]
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong [a review]
The Indian Cooking Course by Monisha Bharadwaj [a review]
Cook Korean! A Comic Book With Recipes by Robin Ha [a review]
Mastering The Art Of Japanese Home Cooking by Masaharu Morimoto [a review]