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