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Books to Read by Chinese and Chinese American Authors

There is a little something for everyone on this list of some of our favorite books by Chinese and Chinese American authors. This collection of books will take you across time and space, from historical fiction to present-day mysteries and thrillers, and even into a fantastical future to explore among the stars.

Discover more books by Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander authors and share these incredible narratives year-round using the hashtag #RepresentAsianStories.

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    Oh My Mother!

    by Connie Wang

    In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other.
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    Mott Street

    by Ava Chin

    A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act — the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades — through an intimate portrayal of Ava Chin’s family’s epic journey to lay down roots in America.
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    Last Boat Out of Shanghai

    by Helen Zia

    The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival and a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.

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    Holding Pattern

    by Jenny Xie

    Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next. To her surprise, her mother isn’t the same person Kathleen remembers. No longer depressed or desperate to return to China, the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, and has been transformed by love. Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. While she negotiates new ideas about intimacy and connection, an unforeseen attachment to someone at work pushes her to rethink her relationships—especially the one with Marissa. Will they succeed in seeing each other anew, adult to adult?
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    Natural Beauty

    by Ling Ling Huang

    Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City. Holistik is known for its remarkable products and procedures—from remoras that suck out cheap Botox to eyelash extensions made of spider silk—and her new job affords her entry into a world of privilege and gives her a long-awaited sense of belonging. She becomes transfixed by Helen, the niece of Holistik’s charismatic owner, and the two strike up a friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while, our narrator is plied with products that slim her thighs, smooth her skin, and lighten her hair. But beneath these creams and tinctures lies something sinister.
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    Dear Girls

    by Ali Wong

    Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.

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    Breathless

    by Amy McCulloch

    Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She’s come to Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She’s given up everything for this story—her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she’s made with her climbing failures in the past—but it’s a career-making opportunity. But when one climber dies in what everyone else assumes is a freak accident, she fears their expedition is in danger. And by the time a second climber dies, it’s too late to turn back. Stranded on a mountain in one of the most remote regions of the world, she’ll have to battle more than the elements in a harrowing fight for survival against a killer who is picking them off one by one.
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    Her Radiant Curse

    by Elizabeth Lim

    Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent’s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna—the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn’t see a monster. At seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi, who’s had to rely on her strength and cunning all these years, can defend her sister against the cruelest of the suitors. But in doing so, she becomes the target of his wrath—launching a grisly battle royale, a quest over land and sea, a romance between sworn enemies, and a choice that will strain Channi’s heart to its breaking point.
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    Where Reasons End

    by Yiyun Li

    Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. Written with originality, precision, and poise, Yiyun Li’s work is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.

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    Monkey King

    by Wu Cheng'en

    A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature, known to legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world’s largest e-sport, the video game League of Legends. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality.
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    Beautiful Country

    by Qian Julie Wang

    When Qian and her family immigrated to America when she was seven-years-old, it wasn’t the “beautiful country” she had been envisioning. Before her parents worked as professors, but in New York City, they were “illegal” and lived in constant fear that they would be found out. But Qian finds little delights for herself: greasy slices of pizza, and endless companions within the pages of the books at the public library. With clarity, charm, and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
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    To Live

    by Yu Hua

    This searing novel portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of gritty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power.
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    Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

    by Amélie Wen Zhao

    In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past—and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China.
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    The West

    by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

    Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urgently needed emergent voice in big history, she offers a bold new account of Western history, real and imagined, through the lives of fourteen remarkable individuals.
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    Joan Is Okay

    by Weike Wang

    Joan’s parents immigrated from China with the idea that their children would be able to live the American Dream. And their dream became a reality. Joan is a successful ICU doctor at a busy NYC hospital, more at home within the halls of the hospital than she is with her own family. But when Joan’s father dies unexpectedly, her entire life is turned upside down, just in time for a health crisis more devastating than anyone could have imagined. From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a powerful yet playful novel about identity and family.
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    Chloe and the Kaishao Boys

    by Mae Coyiuto

    In this hilarious YA rom-com about Chloe, a Chinese-Filipina girl in Manila, who unexpectedly gets into USC and has the opportunity to fulfill her dream and attend college in the States. However, her father starts to set her up on a marathon of arranged dates in hopes of convincing her to stay close to home for college. What happens when she actually starts to fall for one of the guys, only to have to leave at the end of the summer?
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    Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop

    by Roselle Lim

    Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves. This delightful novel is about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris.

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    Forbidden City

    by Vanessa Hua

    Mei, a teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in Forbidden City, an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world’s most powerful and least understood leaders during this extraordinarily turbulent period in modern Chinese history. Mei’s harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl.
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    Know My Name

    by Chanel Miller

    Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.

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    Half a Lifelong Romance

    by Eileen Chang

    Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances—a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret—force the two young lovers apart. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China.
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    Indelible City

    by Louisa Lim

    The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
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    Live Learn Love Well

    by Emma Lovewell

    Emma Lovewell is a star instructor at Peloton, but her journey to success began with a simple realization: Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. She chose to grow. In Live Learn Love Well, she shares the moments in her life that shaped her into the woman she is today―from growing up in a modest home amidst the affluence of Martha’s Vineyard, to struggling with her biracial identity and fitting in, both in the white community and the Asian American community, to health setbacks and relationship challenges, to moving to New York and striving for a career in dance and fitness.
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    Portrait of a Thief

    by Grace D. Li

    A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major, and eldest son who has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago. Inspired by true events, Portrait of a Thief is equal parts beautiful, thoughtful, and thrilling. It is a cultural heist and an examination of Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique on the lingering effects of colonialism.
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    The New China Playbook

    by Keyu Jin

    China’s economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and ways of understanding. Enter Keyu Jin: a world-renowned economist who was born in China, educated in the U.S., and is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics. A person fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures, and a voice of the new generation of Chinese who represent a radical break from the past, Jin is uniquely poised to explain how China became the most successful economic story of our time, as it has shifted from primarily state-owned enterprise to an economy that is thriving in entrepreneurship, and participation in the global economy.
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    Dream of the Divided Field

    by Yanyi

    The poems in Yanyi’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them.
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    by Amy Tan

    In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. Amy Tan’s classic novel examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters.

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    Exhalation

    by Ted Chiang

    Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only Ted Chiang could imagine, these nine — stunningly original, provocative, and poignant — stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world.

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    by Delia Cai

    A young woman’s past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents in this vibrant debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
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    A Song Everlasting

    by Ha Jin

    An urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship, from one of our most celebrated authors.

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    Red Sorghum

    by Mo Yan

    Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
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    by Cecily Wong

    The Brightons are known the world over for their shopping empire, Kaleidoscope. Among the Brightons are eldest daughter—and family favorite—Morgan, and her younger sister Riley, who is forever eclipsed by her older sister’s presence. But when a catastrophic event changes their lives forever, it is Riley who is left questioning everything she knew. In order to get answers, she will set off on a journey across the globe to seek truths about the people she thought she knew best—herself included.
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    Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    by Malinda Lo

    America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like seventeen-year-old Lily Hu. With deportation looming over her father, Lily and Kathleen Miller risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

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    by Stacey Lee

    From the author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

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    by Ai Qing

    One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.
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    by Maxine Hong Kingston

    In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American.

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    by Belinda Huijuan Tang

    Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. But on arrival, he finds navigating China’s systems are impossible as an outsider and so seeks out his childhood friend, Tian Hanwen, for help. As kids Yitian and Hanwen fell in love and dreamed of attending university together. Instead Yitian left for America, and Hanwen resigned to life as a bureaucrat’s housewife. Together they will grapple with the past as they try to find Yitian’s father and hopefully find a future for themselves.
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    Girl in Translation

    by Jean Kwok

    When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life—like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition—Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
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    by Lu Xun

    Lu Xun is one of the founding figures of modern Chinese literature. In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911.
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