May Picks

For Heritage/History months, I started doing a thing where I pulled media or books either about, by, or starring the people being celebrated.

Biographies

Eat a Peach - Chang, David

Family in Six Tones - Cao, Lan

Minor Feelings - Hong, Cathy Park.

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - Madden, T Kira.

The Song Poet - Yang, Kao Kalia

Mystery & SciFi

The Widows of Malabar Hill - Massey, Sujata

Malice - Higashino, Keigo

The Plotters - Kim, Ŏn-Su

The Grace of Kings - Liu, Ken

The Three-Body Problem - Liu, Cixin

Broken Stars - Anthology (translated by Ken Liu)

Fiction Books

Severance - Ma, Ling

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Vuong, Ocean

Trust Exercise - Choi, Susan

The Incendiaries - Kwon, R. O.

A Burning - Majumdar, Megha

The Kiss Quotient - Hoang, Helen.

Everything Here is Beautiful - Lee, Mira T.

Days of Distraction - Chang, Alexandra

What we were Promised - Tan, Lucy.

Killing Commendatore - Murakami, Haruki

Little Fires Everywhere - Ng, Celeste.

A Place for Us - Mirza, Fatima Farheen

If you Leave Me - Kim, Crystal Hana

A River of Stars - Hua, Vanessa.

Amnesty - Adiga, Aravind.

The Wangs vs the World - Chang, Jade

Girls Burn Brighter - Rao, Shobha.

America is Not the Heart - Castillo, Elaine.

Crazy Rich Asians - Kwan, Kevin.

The Joy Luck Club - Tan, Amy.

Pachinko - Lee, Min Jin.

A Tale for the Time Being - Ozeki, Ruth L.

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - See, Lisa.

The Island of Sea Women - See, Lisa.

Movies

IP Man (Season 1 - 2017)

Snowpiercer (2014)

Free Solo (2019)

Parasite (2020)

Searching (2018)

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Documented (2014)