May is Asian Heritage Month and to celebrate we are highlighting Asian authors who have written books we've loved that we wanted to share. There are a lot of countries in Asia and we don't have representation for all of them today, but stay tuned and we will surely have more to come.

Discussed:

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yōko Ogawa

Pachinko, by Lee Min-jin

Last Story of Mina Lee, by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Author Julie Otsuka: When the Emperor Was Divine; Buddha in the Attic; Swimmers

On Earth We're  Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother, by Ocean Vuong

Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo

Dial "A" for Aunties, by Jesse A. Sutanto

Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara

Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng

Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

Traveling Cat Chronicles, by Hiro Arikawa

Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, by Kim Fu

Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

Searching for Sylvie Lee, by Jean Kwok

They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei

The Mountains Sing, by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Library of Legends, by Janie Chang

White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lunn Bracht

Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan

Other staff recommendations:

A Taste for Love, by Jennifer Yen

Cursed Bunny, by Bora Chung

Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura

Author: Gen Luen Yang

Persepolis, by Maryjane Satrapi

She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo

The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Farewell My Concubine, by Lilian Lee

Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden