Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month where we recognize and celebrate the heritage and cultures of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their contributions and influences on the United States and its history. For more information and online events, lectures, exhibits, collections, videos and images, please visit https://asianpacificheritage.gov/
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Falmouth Public Library has put together a reading list of 2020 and 2021 books for all ages that are available from the library.
Kids:
A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang
Finish the Fight!: the Brave and Revolutionary Women who Fought for the Right to Vote written by the Staff of The New York Times
Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim
Watercress by Andrea Wang
When you Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Who Is Kamala Harris? by Kirsten Anderson
Yasmin the Writer by Saadia Faruqi
Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Teens:
Almost American Girl : an Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
Adults:
Crying in H Mart : a Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Eat a Peach : a Memoir by David Chang with Gabe Ulla
Facing the Mountain : a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
Heart of Fire: an Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
Made in China : a Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang
Minor feelings : an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
RomeAntically Challenged by Marina Adair
Sex and Vanity : a Novel by Kevin Kwan
Sigh, Gone : a Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in by Phuc Tran
Sparks Like Stars: a Novel by Nadia Hashimi
Speak, Okinawa : a Memoir by Elizabeth Miki
Things We Lost to the Water: a Novel by Eric Nguyen
This is One Way to Dance : Essays by Sejal Shah
Tower of Skulls : a History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
The Scientist and the Spy : a True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
The Son of Good Fortune: a Novel by Lysley Tenorio
Women’s Liberation! : Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore