It is Asian American Pacific Islander Month (AAPI) and we
are celebrating at the library today (Monday, May 6, 2 pm) with a movie showing
of Moana on the big screen, along with some Korean and Indian snacks! Here are some fairly
well-known books set in Asia and the Pacific Islands. How many have you read? (Please
add a number in the comments, we’re curious!)
Are there others that you’ve read and enjoyed? Which do you feel gave
the best insights into the countries they were about?
India
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
A Moment Comes by Bradbury
The Far Pavilions by MM Kay
Interpreter
of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Kim by
Rudyard Kipling
China
Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The
Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck
Shanghai
Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1) by Lisa See
Japan
Memoirs
of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Shōgun
(Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell
Rainbirds by Clarissa
Goenawan
Thailand
The Beach,
Alex Garland
Sightseeing,
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
A Good True
Thai, Sunisa Manning
Samoa
Leaves
of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt
Vietnam
The
Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Water Buffalo
Days: Growing Up in Vietnam by Huynh Quang
Nhuong
Korea
When
My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
Under
the Same Sky by Joseph Kim
White
Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Philippines
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