Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Every May we celebrate the rich history and culture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Browse a curated selection of fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators that we think your students will love. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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Art

Do You Teach Art?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which include Art Appreciation, Contemporary Art, Art Since 1940, Renaissance Art, and more. Art Appreciation Contemporary Art Art Since 1940 Renaissance Art  

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A Letter to Readers from Eve J. Chung, author of Daughters of Shandong

Dear Reader, When I was born, my parents could not afford childcare. So they could make ends meet, they sent me to Taiwan to live with my maternal grandmother, my Puo Puo, while they studied and worked in the United States. She and I developed a special relationship that continued even after I returned to

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve J. Chung’s Daughters of Shandong

Daughters of Shandong is a propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.   1 Heirless Nai Nai said whores weren’t allowed in the house, so she kicked Mom out, slamming the

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Congratulations to the 2025 Lukas Prize Winners and Finalist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the four winners and three finalists of the 2025 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, established in 1998, recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant,

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Lara Marlowe’s How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying

Publishing on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine: The gripping, heartrending story, told in her own words, of a formidable 29-year-old woman serving as a commander on the front lines of the War in Ukraine — and an intimate, hair-raising look at modern warfare.   lynove, 2016 The Ukrainian army gives me very

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us

Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.   1 Britt scrutinized her face in the bathroom mirror, hoping she looked less tired than she felt. Sleep had been hard

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The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: A practical companion to the New York Times and international bestseller Dopamine Nation

By: Anna Lembke, MD The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook is a companion guide to Dopamine Nation, the book I published in 2021 exploring the neuroscientific, cultural, and evolutionary contributors to addiction in the modern age. The Workbook can be used as a classroom supplement to Dopamine Nation, or as a standalone guide for those wanting to implement the ideas from Dopamine

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