Book Reviews

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Asian Literature

  • All The Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Almond by Won-pyung Sohn (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • A Small Town Called Hibiscus by Gu Hua (Chinese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri (Indian, Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Can’t I Go Instead by Lee Geum-yi (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-pyung Sohn (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (Malaysian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Flowers of Fire by Hawon Jung (Korean, Nonfiction, Journalism), Blog Post Here

  • Greek Lessons by Han Kang (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Human Acts by Han Kang (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genji Kawamura (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee (Korean, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Lemon by Kwon Yeo-seun (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • My Son’s Girlfriend by Jung Mi-kyung (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Singaporean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories From Colonial Korea (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree (Indian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eun-young (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Snowy Days and Other Stories by Lee Chang-dong (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Soft Burial by Fang Fang (Chinese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Age of Doubt by Pak Kyong-ni (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Mahora (Indian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Lonesome Body Builder by Yukiko Motoya (Japanese, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Rainbow by Yasunori Kawabata (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Running Flame by Fang Fang (Chinese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Woman in Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The White Book by Han Kang (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Indian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam (Pakistani, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tamir Hazgut Igil (Uyghur, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • We Do Not Part by Han Kang (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott (Singaporean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Japanese, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Your Utopia by Bora Chung (Korean, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Violets by Shin Kyung-sook (Korean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

American & Canadian Literature

  • A Bite-Sized History of France (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur (Asian-Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • A History of Burning by Janika Oza (Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • A House of Our Own by Sandra Cisneros (Latinx, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • All’s Well by Mona Award (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Art Monsters by Lauren Elkin (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • A Quitter’s Paradise by Elysa Chang (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Aferparties by Anthony Veasno So (Asian-American, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (Asian-Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Babel by R.F. Kuang (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Banyan Moon by Thao Thai (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Barbara by Joni Murphy (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Beautiful Country by Julie Qian Wang (Asian-American, Memoir, Nonfiction), Blog Post Here

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (African-American, Memoir/Nonfiction), Blog Post Here

  • Blood, Fire & Gold by Estelle Paranque (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya by Bruce Kirkby (Canadian, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Asian-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour (SWANA, Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Bukowski in a Sundress by Kim Addonizio (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Camera Girl by Carl Sferezza Anthony (Nonfiction, History/Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay (African-American, Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Central Places by Delia Cai (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Chlorine by Jade Song (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino (Nonfiction, Film, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Circe by Madeline Miller (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • City of Thieves by David Benioff (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Nonfiction, Essays/Linguistics), Blog Post Here

  • Dances by Nicole Cuffy (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Daughter of the Dragon by Yunte Huang (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Dear Memory by Victoria Chang (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Epigg (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Devotion by Patti Smith (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Dress History of Korea by Kyung-hee Pyun and Min-jee Kim (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Academic), Blog Post Here

  • Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick (Nonfiction, Journalism), Blog Post Here

  • Educated by Tara Westover (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Either/Or by Elif Batuman (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Emergency by Kathleen Alcott (Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chin (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Every Frenchman Has One by Olivia de Havilland (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy by Jennifer Funk (Poetry), Blog Post Here

  • Fashion Criticism: An Anthology by Francesca Granata (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • First Love by Lilly Dancyger (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Floor Sample by Julia Cameron (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (African-American, Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee (Asian-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Frida in America by Celia Stahr (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Glossy by Marisa Meltzer (Nonfiction, Journalism), Blog Post Here

  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (African-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Good Girl by Aria Aber (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Asian-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris (African-American, Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Homebodies by Tembe Benton-Hurst (African-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin (Nonfiction, Food, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (African-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (Asian-American, Novel, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • How to Not Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • I Am My Country by Kenan Orhan (SWANA, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Asian-American, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • In the Dark Room by Susan Faludi (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell (Nonfiction, Political Science), Blog Post Here

  • I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashatar J. Khabushani (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Just Kids by Patti Smith (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Keya Das’s Second Act by Sopan Deb (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Kinda Korean by Joan Sung (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Las Madres by Esmerelda Santigao (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (Asian-American, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Like a Bird by Fariha Roisin (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry (African-American, Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Loudermilk by Lucy Ives (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Lucky Dogs by Helen Schulman (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Lucky Girl by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Making a Scene by Constance Wu (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen (Nonfiction, Food, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • M Train by Patti Smith (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Must Read Well by Ellen Pall (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • My Body by Emily Ratajkowsk (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • My Documents by Kevin Nguyen (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (Asian-American-Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity by Liah Greenfeld (Nonfiction, Academic/History/Political Science), Blog Post Here

  • National Dish by Anya von Bremzen (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Night by Elie Wiesel (Jewish, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • No Name in the Streets by James Baldwin (African-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quan (Asian-American, Young Adult, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Nuclear Family by Joseph Han (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • One Life by Megan Rapinoe (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Overdressed: The Shockingly Cheap Cost of Fast Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline, Blog Post Here

  • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Pageboy by Eliot Page (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Paper Names by Susie Luo (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Reporting Always by Lillian Ross (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Sea Change by Gina Chung (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Seventy Times Seven by Alex Mar (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Sirens & Muses by Atonia Angress (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Skinship by Yoon Choi (Asian-American, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford (African-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Sovereignty, RIP by Don Herzog (Nonfiction, Academic/History), Blog Post Here

  • Stay True by Hua Hsu (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Strange Duets by Kim Marra (Nonfiction, Academic/History), Blog Post Here

  • Super Sushi Ramen Express by Michael Booth (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Food, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Tell Me I’m An Artist by Chelsea Martin (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston (African-American, Nonfiction, Anthropology), Blog Post Here

  • The All-American by Joe Milan Jr. (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Apartment by Ana Menendez (Latinx, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Brightest Star by Gail Tsukiyama (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Cloisters by Katy Hayes (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Dalí Legacy by Christopher Heath Brown and Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Nonfiction, History/Biography), Blog Post Here

  • The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon (Nonfiction, Environment), Blog Post Here

  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher (Nonfiction, Food, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • The Girls in Queens by Christine Kandic Torres (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Great Divide by Cristina Henrique (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • The Last Session by Julia Bartz (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myeong-sun by Choi Jung Ja (Nonfiction, Academic/History), Blog Post Here

  • The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kemali (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Nationalist Revival by John B. Judis (Nonfiction, Academic/Political Science), Blog Post Here

  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The One and Only Gooogoosh by Azadeh Westergaard (SWANA, Children’s, Nonfiction), Blog Post Here

  • The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Red Palace by June Hur (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (African-American, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • The Ugly History of Beautiful Things by Katy Kelleher (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Whispers by Ashley Audrain (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • These Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Perez (Latinx, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (African-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang (Asian-American, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Twelve Hours in Manhattan by Maan Gabriel (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Maye (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • Warhol by Blake Gopnik (Nonfiction, Biography), Blog Post Here

  • Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • What You Have Heard is True by Carolyn Forche (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • When Broadway was Black by Caseen Gaines (African-American, Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • When the World Breaks Open by Seema Reza (Asian-American, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Wildflower by Aurora James (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Canadian-Mexican, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • XOXO by Axie Oh (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi (Asian-American, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Eating an Apple by Sheung King (Asian-Canadian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (SWANA, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Zorrie by Laird Hunt (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

British, Irish, and Scottish Literature

  • Artful by Ali Smith (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Before the Fallout by Diana Preston (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Asian-British, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Cleopatra’s Daughter by Jane Draycott (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Empire of Horses by John Man (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (Irish, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Fault Lines by Emily Itami (Asian-British, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Maame by Jessica George (Black-British, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris by Anne de Courcy, Blog Post Here

  • Midnight in Cairo by Raphael Cormack (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Penance by Eliza Clark (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez (Afro-British/Caribbean, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found by Frances Larson (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Eternal City: A History of Rome by Ferdinand Addis (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano (Afro-British, Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (Nonfiction, Essays), Blog Post Here

  • The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Pieces from Berlin by Michal Pye (Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Old Bells of Tokyo by Anna Sherman (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rapport (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The War of the Roses by Dan Jones (Nonfiction, History), Blog Post Here

  • The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta (Asian-British, Nonfiction), Blog Post Here

  • Travels into the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park (Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (Irish, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo (Asian-British, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

Western European Literature

  • Heatwave by Vector Jestin (French, Fiction), Blog Post Here

  • Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarch (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • Sovietistan by Erika Fatland (Norwegian, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius (Swedish, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavere (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen (Danish, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras (French, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Ghetto Within by Santiago Amigorena (French, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (Italian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger (German, Nonfiction, History/Theory), Blog Post Here

  • Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin (French, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

African Literature

  • Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwandan, Nonfiction, Memoir), Blog Post Here

  • Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie (Ghanaian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigerian, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

Eastern European & Slavic Literature

  • Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories (Ukrainian Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (Belarusian, Nonfiction), Blog Post Here

Latin/Central American Literature

  • Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero (Ecuadorian, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

  • Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (Argentine, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here

Middle Eastern and SWANA Literature

  • Mazeltov by Eli Zuzosky (Israeli, Fiction, Novel), Blog Post Here

  • The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Omer Friedlander (Israeli, Fiction, Short Stories), Blog Post Here