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
- The Cats of Mirikitani
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Farewell
- Gandhi
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Inside the Forbidden City
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Kampai! For the Love of Sake
- Mira, Royal Detective
- Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
- Pacific Journeys
- Seven Samurai
- Up the Yangtze
- Zatoichi
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!
- A Bitter Legacy
- Chan is Missing
- Death by Misadventure: The Life and Death of Bruce Lee
- Diamonds in the Rough: Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball
- East of Occidental
- Forever, Chinatown
- In Between Days
- Lucky Grandma
- Native Planet: Hawaii – The Stolen Nation
- Native Planet: New Zealand – Restoring the “Mauri”
- The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific
- Soul of A Banquet: The Matriarch of Modern Chinese Cooking