Books for AAPI+ Heritage Month
AAPI+ mural at SBCC, east campus center patio.
May 01, 2026
May is Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American Heritage Month! The Federal Asian Pacific American Council has chosen the theme of Power in Unity: Strengthening Communities Together for 2026. 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:
- Bibliophobia: A Memoir
by Sarah Chihaya, 2025 - Birthstones in the Province of Mercy: Poems
by Bo Hee Moon, 2026 - Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority
by Andrea Louie, 2025 - Documents of the Asian American Experience
by Noriko Matsumoto, 2025 - Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
by Chris A. Eng, 2025 - Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms,
and Foodways
by Ziying You, 2025 - Like a Wave We Break: A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself
by Jane Marie Chen, 2025 - The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ
by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, 2025 - Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt
by Rebecca Jo Kinney, 2025 - Mix-Mix
by Dani Putney, 2025 - Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in
America
by Michael Luo, 2025
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:
- 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 - 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 - 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