Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month this May with our selection of books, movies, and e-resources. And don’t forget to check out last year’s Stop Asian Hate resource list! You can also check out our 2021 Stop Asian Hate resource list.

At the Library

Children

• A is for Asian American: An Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Alphabet by Virginia Loh-Hagan

• American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelker

• Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

• Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang

• Amy Wu and the Warm Welcome by Kat Zhang

• The Best at it by Maulik Pancholy 

• Bhai for Now by Maleeha Siddiqui

• Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed

• The Blur by Minh Lê

• Brown is Beautiful by Supriya Kelkar

• Chinese Kite Festival by Rich Ho

• City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda  

• Dragon Noodle Party: A Story of Chinese Zodiac Animals by Ying Chang Compestine

• Drawn Together by Minh Lê

• Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II by Andrea Warren

• Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho

• Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho 

• Front Desk by Kelly Yang 

• Gigi and Ojiji by Melissa Iwai

• Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim

• How to Win a Slime War by Mae Respicio

• I Am Golden by Eva Chen 

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai 

• Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

• The Last Princess: the Story of Princess Ka`iulani of Hawai`i by Fay Stanley 

• The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

• A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth by Christina Soontornvat

• Little Owl’s Love by Divya Srinivasan 

• Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee

• Maya Lin by Grace Lin

• Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu 

• The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara

• Mother Goose Goes to India by Sehgal Surishtha

• My Diwali Light by Raakhee Mirchandani

• New From Here by Kelly Yang

• Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy

• Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham

• Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas by Pamela Ehrenberg 

• Remixed: A Blended Family by Arree Chung

• • A Sari for Ammi by Mamta Nainy

• Stargazing by Jen Wang

• • The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang 

• Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria by George Jreije

• Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim 

• Surfer of the Century: the Life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe

• Ten Blocks to the Big Wok: A Chinatown Counting Book by Ying-Hwa Hu

• That’s Not My Name by Anoosha Syed

• This is (Not) Enough by Anna Kang 

• Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

• Tomorrow is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Aram Kim

• The Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye

• Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories by Phước Thị Minh Trần

• Wingbearer by Marjorie Liu

• Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend by Katie Zhao

Teens

• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha 

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

• Azar on Fire by Olivia Abtahi 

• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

• The Darkening by Sunya Mara 

• Displacement by Kiku Hughes

• The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

• I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai 

• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata J Kad

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali 

• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

• More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood

• Parachutes by Kelly Yang 

• Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

• Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang

• Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon 

• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei 

• A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends ed. Ellen Oh 

• A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

• The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala

• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

• Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin

• Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey by G.B. Tran

• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Adults

• Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

• American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui

• • Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Myst Manansala

• Best Friends by Kamila Shamsie

• Charlie Chan: the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang 

• The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma

• Cook Real Hawai’i by Sheldon Simeon

• Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran

• The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee 

• The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati 

• Gold Diggers: A Novel by Sanjena Sathian

• Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono 

• The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang 

• Hiroshige’s Japan by Philippe Delord

• Home is Where the Eggs are: Farmhouse Food for the People You Love by Molly Yeh

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold? by C. Pam Zhang

• I Am Malala: the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

• The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung

• Indelible City by Louisa Lim

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 

• I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao’s Revolution by Helen Zia 

• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 

• The Leavers by Lisa Ko

• Lucie Yi is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho

• Making a Scene by Constance Wu

• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee 

• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

• Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life by Marie Kondo

• Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• The Miraculous True History of Nommi Ali by Uzma Aslam Khan 

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

• Rise: A Pop History of Asian Americans From the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang

• Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 

• Stay True by Hua Hsu

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

• What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

• Which Side are You on by Ryan Lee Wong 

• The White Devil’s Daughters: the Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler

• The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love From a Chinese American Family by Bill Leung

• Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda  

Movies

• Crazy Rich Asians 

• The Farewell 

• Gandhi 

• Grave of the Fireflies 

• Mira, Royal Detective 

• Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki 

• Pacific Journeys 

• Seven Samurai

• Zatoichi 

Borrow Online

Overdrive

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (available as ebook or audiobook)

• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Family in Six Tones by Lan Cao (available as ebook)

• Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick (available as ebook)

• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (available as ebook or audiobook)

• If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (available as ebook or audiobook)

• In the Country by Mia Alvar (available as ebook)

• Interior Chinatown: a Novel by Charles Yu (available as ebook or audiobook)

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (available as ebook)

• Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia (available as ebook)

• Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (available as ebook or audiobook)

• Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina (available as audiobook)

• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen (available as ebook)

• Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (available as ebook or audiobook)

Hoopla

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (available as audiobook)

• Naturally Tan by Tan France (available as audiobook)

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (available as audiobook)

Kanopy

Check out Kanopy’s AAPI Month selection!

• A Bitter Legacy

• Chan is Missing

• Death by Misadventure: The Life and Death of Bruce Lee

• Diamonds in the Rough: Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball

• East of Occidental

• Forever, Chinatown

• In Between Days

• Lucky Grandma

• Native Planet: Hawaii – The Stolen Nation

• Native Planet: New Zealand – Restoring the “Mauri”

• The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific

• Soul of A Banquet: The Matriarch of Modern Chinese Cooking