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Tonight’s hosts, the PowerLeeGirls – Miko Lee and Jalena Keane-Lee,  a mother daughter team are talking books books books. Joining us to discuss their favorite API books are influencer Dr. Kiona, award winning graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang and Eastwind Books’ Sophia Hussain. As a wrap up to the year, and move into 2020 and the year of the Rat, which is witty and smart and persuasive, we talk books.

Here is our must read list for any Asian American library.

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

BRANDING QUICKIES: A Collection from 20 Women Killing it in the Branding Game by Dr. Keona and Blank Room

The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now By Mauro Garcia Triana

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism By Bushra Rehman

Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race By Naben Ruthnum

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask

Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Missing, Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 By Sunaina Marr Maira

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Period Power by Nadya Okimoto

Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock

Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color By Cherríe L. Moraga

Trick Mirror By Jia Tolintino

We Too Sing America South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future By Deepa Iyer

Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

YELL-Oh Girls: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identify and Growing Up Asian American edited by Vickie Nam

American Born Chinese series by Gene Luen Yuan

Stargazing by Jen Wang

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance by Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil

A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

Chicken of the Sea by Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thi Bui

Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi

Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong By Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, & Gayle Romasanta

Pet By Akwaeke Emezi

The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin

Thank you to the contributors of this list: Miko Lee, Jalena Keane-Lee, Dr. Kiona,  Gene Luen Yuan, Sophia Hussain, and Sabiha Basrai.

You can find all of these books at Eastwind Books. Please visit independent bookstores or your local library.

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