Books for Korean American Day

By Coll Rowe | January 7 2026 | General

For Korean American Day on January 13th, we are celebrating Korean American and Korean authors and their stories with a collection that includes memoir, history, and fiction.

Clay Walls
Clay Walls
Kim Ronyoung
9780143138242

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown.

$20.00 US
Dec 10, 2024
Paperback
368 Pages
Penguin Classics
Advocate
Advocate
A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Eddie Ahn
9781984862495
A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family’s expectations.
$24.99 US
Apr 16, 2024
Hardcover
208 Pages
Ten Speed Graphic
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart
A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
9781984898951
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
$17.00 US
Mar 28, 2023
Paperback
256 Pages
Vintage
Lurkers
Lurkers
Sandi Tan
9781641293518

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.

$16.00 US
Feb 15, 2022
Paperback
320 Pages
Soho Press
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
9780241448519

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea’s greatest short stories.

$18.00 US
Dec 10, 2024
Paperback
496 Pages
Penguin Classics
Minor Feelings
Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
9781984820389
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
$20.00 US
Mar 02, 2021
Paperback
224 Pages
One World
Starry Field
Starry Field
A Memoir of Lost History
Margaret Juhae Lee
9781685890933

Starry Field weaves together the stories of Margaret’s family against the backdrop of Korea’s tumultuous modern history, with a powerful question at its heart. Can we ever separate ourselves from our family’s past—and if the answer is yes, should we?

$32.50 US
Mar 05, 2024
Hardcover
288 Pages
Melville House
Exhibit
Exhibit
A Novel
R. O. Kwon
9780593190036
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.
$18.00 US
May 20, 2025
Paperback
224 Pages
Riverhead Books
Heart of a Stranger
Heart of a Stranger
An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
Angela Buchdahl
9780593490174

From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world.

$32.00 US
Oct 21, 2025
Hardcover
352 Pages
Pamela Dorman Books
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