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

Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang
Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed
Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee
Chinese Kite Festival by Rich Ho
Drawn Together by Minh Lê
Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Front Desk by Kelly Yang J Yan
Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim
Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Lê
Hot Pot Night! by Vincent Chen
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Last Princess: the Story of Princess Ka`iulani of Hawai`i by Fay Stanley
The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu
Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
A Morning With Grandpa by Sylvia Liu
The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang
Mother Goose Goes to India by Sehgal Surishtha
My First Day by Nguyen Phung Quang and Kim Lien Huynh
Natsumi! by Susan Lendroth
‘Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
Our Favorite Day by Joowon Oh
Paper Son: the Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung
Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
Priya Dreams of Marigolds and Masala by Meenal Patel
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson
Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas by Pamela Ehrenberg
A Sari for Ammi by Mamta Nainy
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki
Surfer of the Century: the Life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe
Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories by Phước Thị Minh Trần
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Wishes by Muon Van

Teens

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
All Kinds of Other by James Sie
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan
The Best We Could Do: an Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lai
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Displacement by Kiku Hughes
Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai
I’ll be the One by Lyla Lee
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata J Kad
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim
Parachutes by Kelly Yang
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
This Time Will be Different by Misa Sugiura
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends ed. Ellen Oh
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
We are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi

Adults

America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Myst Manansala
Charlie Chan: the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
The Chinese in America by Iris Chang
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
All You Can Ever Know: a Memoir by Nicole Chung
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlam Margaret Van Cao
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
Hawaii’s Story by Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawai`i
Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
Home Remedies: Stories by Xuan Juliana Wang
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
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Last Tang Standing by Laren Ho
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America’s First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Things We Lost to the Water: A Novel by Eric Nguyen
The White Devil’s Daughters: the Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler

Movies

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!