Recommended Reading
Read more about the 2005-2006 selections:
- Asian American X, edited by Arar Han and John Hsu
- Asian American Dreams, by Helen Zia
- Girls for Breakfast, by Dave Yoo
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Read more about the 2006-2007 selections:
- American Knees, by Shawn Wong
- Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn
- Outsiders Within: , edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin
- Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, edited by Vickie Nam
Lending Library
The Asian American Center Lending Library is a growing collection of fiction and non-fiction works about the Asian American experience. All books can be borrowed from the Center for a period of two weeks.
Anthologies and Short Stories
- Asian American X, edited by Arar Han and John Hsu
- Catamaran: South Asian American Writing
- Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World, edited by Jessica Hageorn
- Half + Half, edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Mixed, edited by Chandra Prasad
- On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast, edited by Geraldine Kudaka
- The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans, edited by Theresa Williams-Leon
- The Troublemaker and Other Saints, by Christina Chiu
- Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, edited by Vickie Nam
- Yellow: Stories, by Don Lee
Novels
- American Knees, by Shawn Wong
- Blu's Hanging, by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- Clay Walls, by Kim Ronyoung
- Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn
- Donald Duk, by Frank Chin
- Girls for Breakfast, by David Yoo
- M. Butterfly, by David Henry Hwang (play)
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee One Tribe, by M. Evelina Galang
- Seventeen Syllables, by Hisaye Yamamoto (poetry)
Memoirs & Biographies
- The Accidental Asian, by Eric Liu
- First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
- Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, by Diane C. Fujino
- I'm the One that I Want, by Margaret Cho
- My Country Versus Me, by Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia
Non-Fiction & Asian American Studies
- Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, by Yen Le Espiritu
- Asian American Studies, edited by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Min Song
- Asian American Youth, by Jennifer Lee
- Asian Americans, by Sucheng Chan
- Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu
- The Chinese in America, by Iris Chang
- Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites, by Mia Tuan
- The Karma of Brown Folks, by Vijay Prashad
- A Larger Memory: A History of our Diversity, with Voices, by Ronald Takaki
- Screaming Monkeys, by M. Evelina Galang
- The State of Asian America, by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
- Strangers from a Different Shore, by Ronald Takaki
- Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth, by Stacey J. Lee
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank Wu
Asian American Women
- Asian/Pacific Islander Women: A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura
- Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians, by Jane Hyun
- Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, edited by Sonia Shah
- Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women, edited by Elaine Kim
- Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power, by Phoebe Eng