asian reading recommendations | 30+ books 📚

[@moonbeanz1657]

STOP THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED SO SO SO EXCITED TO JUMP OUT OF MY READING BLOCK 🥰

[@twirlingpages]

YAY I HOPE YOU ENJOY

[@theamethyst93]

I’m black and I love Asian horror and psychological thriller books. There is just something about how they are written that I love. I started to notice the majority of the books I’d save to my to read list were written by Asian authors.

[@so1umy]

THANK U FOR THIS !!! i love the way you actually showed a variety of different asian authors from different origins 🫶🫶

[@geeneon]

just added so many new books to my tbr!!

[@RunZeyn]

just finished if u could see the sun (took me 2 days) and im sobbing

[@tracys.mitnaul-xv7te]

Wow! What a great discovery. I love Asian writers. Getting recommendations is fabulous and greatly appreciated. Thank you.😊

[@kopalinuhg]

Congrats on SABC’s third yeaaaar?!! Also yes to supporting you as an expert on books by Asian authors 🎉 More to long videos of you gushing over books 💝

[@booktales1687]

I was just looking for a video like this. Thank you! 🥺 it’s so hard to find recommendations

[@Mymakermovie77]

This is perfect! Taking notes aggressively 😤

[@sleepingpanda467]

Help. Looking for an uplifting or happy novel written by an Asian or Asian-American author. I noticed I've been reading books that tend to have a sad or somber tone to them and would love to read something more tender and light to balance it out. Just finished reading Violets by Shin Kyung-Sook and need something to get me out of this sad bubble it left me in.

[@RunZeyn]

the things is reading books by Asian authors feels like im watching dramas. def feels better

[@hannahandherstories]

The way I scrambled to jot down The Mountains Sing when you screamed and mentioned it’s a multigenerational book.

[@lachouapor]

Helen Hoang's books are sooo good!!

[@theyasmindiaries]

After all the "sad" mentions, I'mma need this video to be redone but with a sad ranking, start with the happiest and go in order of sadness to the most sad 😅

[@NunpuiiHmar]

Thank you so much for your recommendations Alexandra🎀. I Read The Mountains Sing,The Henna Artist , Tokyo Ever After, XOXO etc, loved them. I Love love love your book club 💌🤍

[@Erikaariana.]

I loved Before the coffee gets cold! 🤗 Thanks for the recommendations!! 🎉

[@joseyong]

Amazing list, it made me remembers why I love multi-generational books. If you have the chance, look at WILD SWANS, it's about 4 Chinese women generations story, I still feel the way it impacted me. Greetings from Costa Rica (pura vida)

[@kiwifruitkl]

Laura Gao's graphic memoir Messy Roots. I read this book from cover to cover. It's pretty good. The author is lesbian. She likes women. Robin Ha's graphic memoir Almost American Girl. I read this book from cover to cover. I also read the Cook Korean! cookbook. I am about to read the author's graphic novel too just because it's written by the same author. The author doesn't talk about sexuality much, but I have heard that the graphic novel has sapphic/lesbian themes.

[@luvfitt]

I looked up Asian books to read ur vid came up first!

[@alyxandriaang]

MAKING MY BIG ASIAN HEART SWELL ❤😂

[@earlybirdlibrary]

I enjoyed The Best We Could Do that I wanted something similar which I asked my local librarian who recommended Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lai. I plan on reading it after I finish a January 2023 release Song of Silver Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao. I have too many on my TBR but an author I am super stoked to start reading is Yoon Ha Lee’s novels.

[@vskchae7486]

Omgg i need this,thank uu❤

[@lisamarshall4515]

Thank you for this video i want to read asian books

[@dohagain]

I loved your video and will absolutely buy some of your recommandations! I would like to add Shangai Baby by Wei hui and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

[@FlyingGreenTea]

Hey Alexandra, I was looking to read some Asian books on self-development and military strategies like The art of war (Sun Tzu) and The book of five rings (Miyamoto Mushashi). Do you have recommendations?

[@separatista]

I wish you left yhe name of the book on the screen while you talk about it. I sometimes look away from the screen and then have to go back to find which one you are talking about.

[@trampledheart1]

Yes, I was hoping there was a list that I could copy to my Notes, handy when I'm in the bookstore or library.

[@bbh0lysh1t]

Commenting to get more asian content creator

[@samantharose1001]

Awww love your book videos especially 🤗💖

[@soyshi7244]

Eid is actually Muslim religious festival 😊

[@LittlePiscesReading]

❤❤

[@rashiqahs3136]

I need to add all of these to my TBR, such good recs! the collected schizophrenia was such a good book! Have you read any Meiko Kawakami, Sayata Murata, or the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa? (all on my TBR)