Books for AAPI+ Heritage Month
AAPI+ mural at SBCC, east campus center patio.
May 01, 2025
May is Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American Heritage Month! The Federal Asian Pacific American Council has chosen the theme of A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience for 2025. Their website is full of historic and current resources for AAPI+ heritage month. Explore this amazing Care Package, poems, meditations, films, and other cultural nutrients for times like this curated with love by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Check out some of our recent ebooks below and visit the library to browse our print book display.
Recent AAPI+ eBooks:
- The Afterlife Is Letting Go
by Brandon Shimoda, 2024 - Asian American Racialization and the Politics of U.S. Education
by Wayne Au, 2024 - Budding Lotus in the West: Buddhism from an Immigrant's Feminist Perspective
by Nhi Yé̂n Đõ̂ Trà̂n, 2024 - Documents of the Asian American Experience
by Noriko Matsumoto, 2025 - Farm-To-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens
by Roy Vu, 2024 - From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
by Mitzi Asai Loftus and David Loftus, 2024 - The Lengest Neoi (poetry)
by Stephanie Choi, 2024 - My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. a Daughter Returns. a Dual Memoir
by Christina Vo and Nghia M. Vo, 2024 - Navigating Islands: Plays From the Pacific
by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, 2024 - Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants
by SunAh M Laybourn, 2024 - Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants
by Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, 2025 - Sidewalk Cruiseship: Poems
by Mary Oishi, 2024 - Tofu: A Culinary History
by Russell Thomas, 2024 - Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
by Patrick Moser, 2024
Recommended by AAPI+ Staff:
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner, 2021 - Great Mahjong Book: History, Lore, and Play
by Jelte Rep, 2006 - The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
by Anthony Christian Ocampo, 2016 - The Loneliest Americans
by Jay Caspian Kang, 2021 - Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong, 2020 - Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now
by Jeff Yang, et al., 2022 - Time Is a Mother (poetry)
by Ocean Vuong, 2022 - When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 2012
More AAPI+ eBooks:
- Aina Hanau / Birth Land (poetry)
by Brandy Nalani McDougall, 2023 - Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, 2023 - Asian American Educators and Microaggressions: More Than Just Work(ers)
by Andrew Wu, 2023 - Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
by John McCormick, 2023 - The Chutney Life: 100 Easy-To-Make Indian-Inspired Recipes
by Palak Patel, 2023 - Jar of Fat
by Seayoung Yim, 2023 - The Making of American Buddhism
by Scott A. Mitchell, 2023 - Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration
Camps
by Eric L. Muller, 2023 - Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese
American Concentration Camp
by Arthur A. Hansen, 2023 - Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-hurt Anti-memoir
by Kawika Guillermo, 2023 - Once Our Lives
by Qin Sun Stubis, 2023 - Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
by Fae Myenne Ng, 2023 - Passport to Shame: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict
by Sam Louie, 2024 - Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre
by Ana Maria Spagna, 2023 - Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape (children's ebook)
by Sam Nakahira, 2024 - When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and
Hawai'i
by Joy Schulz, 2023 - While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
by Yeonmi Park, 2023