May 2023
Welcome to the fifth month of the 2023 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is, "Read a book by an Asian American author."
Pick one of the great books below or any other book that fits the theme!
If you are not currently registered for the Adult Reading Challenge,
join the fun on Beanstack
!
Have you picked up your 2023 ARC notebook?
We still have 2023 notebooks available! Everyone who signs up for the challenge earns one - pick yours up at the front desk of Normal Public Library today, if you haven't already!
Asian American histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy
The love wife : A Novel
Gish Jen
The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel
Jean Kwok
The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel
Tom Lin
Everything I never told you
Celeste Ng
Gold diggers
Sanjena Sathian
Time is a mother
Ocean Vuong
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
How much of these hills is gold
C Pam Zhang
All you can ever know : a memoir
Nicole Chung
Waiting
Ha Jin
The leavers
Lisa Ko
The namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Severance
Ling Ma
The sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
They called us enemy
George Takei
Beautiful country : a memoir
Qian Julie Wang
O beautiful : a novel
Jung Yun
Four treasures of the sky
Jenny Zhang
Fresh off the boat : a memoir
Eddie Huang
The fervor : a novel
Alma Katsu
Crazy rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Arsenic and adobo
Mia P. Manansala
The swimmers
Julie Otsuka
Siren queen
Nghi Vo
Joan is okay : a novel
Weike Wang
Crying in H Mart : a memoir
Michelle Zauner
Happy Reading!
Remember, you have until May 31 to read a book on the theme and
log it in Beanstack
to be eligible for this month's prize drawing.
To place a hold, click on the cover and go to our online catalog.