May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
We have curated a list of books for all ages to both celebrate and remember.
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To place holds from Bluffton Public Library, click on the links below. Note: This is not a complete list. Looking for more options or titles? Please explore the library catalog or request help from the library staff.
Picture Books
- Eyes that kiss in the corners / by Joanna Ho ; illustrated by Dung Ho.
- Watercress / Andrea Wang ; illustrated by Jason Chin.
- Natsumi's song of summer / Robert Paul Weston ; illustrated by Misa Saburi
- My first book of Korean words / by Henry J. Amen IV and Kyubyong Park ; illustrated by Aya Padron.
- Bilal cooks daal / Aisha Saeed ; illustrated by Anoosha Syed.
- Finding Grandma's memories / by Jiyeon Pak.
- Grandpa grumps / by Katrina Moore ; illustrated by Xindi Yan.
- Goyangi means cat / by Christine McDonnell ; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.
- Behind the mask / Yangsook Choi.
Easy Readers
- The best baker / by Fran Manushkin ; illustrated by Laura Zarrin.
- Yasmin the gardener / written by Saadia Faruqi ; illustrated by Hatem Aly.
Juvenile Chapter Books
- Mindy Kim and the trip to Korea / by Lyla Lee ; illustrated by Dung Ho.
- Stand up, Yumi Chung! / Jessica Kim.
- See you in the cosmos / Jack Cheng.
- When you trap a tiger / Tae Keller.
- A place at the table / Saadia Faruqi & Laura Shovan.
- I'm Ok / Patti Kim.
- Other words for home / Jasmine Warga.
Juvenile Nonfiction
Young Adult
- Banned book club / writers, Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada ; artist, Ko Hyung-Ju.
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir / Robin Ha.
- Frankly in love / David Yoon.
- Loveboat, Taipei / Abigail Hing Wen.
- Amina's voice / Hena Khan.
- Displacement / Kiku Hughes.
- A taste for love / Jennifer Yen.
- Rent a boyfriend / Gloria Chao.
Adult
- Be the refuge : raising the voices of Asian American Buddhists / Chenxing Han.
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / Cathy Park Hong.
- My year abroad / Chang-rae Lee.
- The chosen and the beautiful / Nghi Vo.
- Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie.
- Dial A for Aunties / Jesse Q. Sutanto.
- The making of Asian America : a history / Erika Lee.
- The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri.
- Interior Chinatown / Charles Yu.
- Crying in H Mart : a memoir / Michelle Zauner.
- Inheritors / Asako Serizawa.
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice / Khizr Khan.
- How much of these hills is gold / C Pam Zhang.
- Calling a wolf a wolf / Kaveh Akbar.
- Asian Americans [DVD] / producers, Renee Tajima-Pena, S. Leo Chiang, Grace Lee, Geeta Gandbhir ; writers, S. Leo Chiang, Victoria Chalk, Aldo Velasco, Grace Lee, Alex Keipper.
- Vanessa Yu's magical Paris tea shop / Roselle Lim.
- The souls of yellow folk [book on CD] : essays / Wesley Yang.
- Dragon Springs Road / Janie Chang.
