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Titles I'm considering (list is liable to change; I'm going to try reading at least three):

Paper Wishes Japanese american MC
Inside Out & Back Again Vietnamese MC
The Sound of Life and Everything Japanese Am MC
Blackbird Fly Filipino MC
The Land of Forgotten Girls Filipino Am MC
Somewhere Among Japanese Am MC
The Gold-Threaded Dress Thai MC
Slant Korean Am adoptee MC

the Gold Threaded Dress is adorable.

I read The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi, although this barely counts as it is food. I will need to look for more.

Great recommendations, Cindy and Pam! I will have to check these out. I'm a fantasy nerd, so I would recommend Eon/Eona series by Allison Goodman

I have not heard of that Hearher, thanks for the rec!

Oh, oh, this is my topic! I have tons of recommendations~

1-2. At the top of my list is both of Wendy Shang's books. The Way Home Looks Now takes place during the Vietnam War years in Pittsburgh about a family who loves baseball. Her other book, The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, is my favorite discovery of diverse lit, it's clever and real and familiar. Both are YA novels, but as an adult I loved and was moved by these books.

3. A great storybook that you can share with older grade schoolers is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. I tell people this is the book I didn't know I was waiting to read all my life. (All her other children's books are also popular and highly recommended.)

Let's see. Going through my history by highest rated...

4-5. Jenny Han wrote a few books that made the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice finalists: I enjoyed both To All the Boys I've Loved Before and its sequel (read both, it's really two halves of a good story). When I read it, it started out 'Just another Teen Novel', and then somewhere in the middle I discovered how really good and thoughtful it was. Recommend!

6. If you liked the YA dystopian Hunger Games and Divergent, I can tell you I preferred Marie Lu's Legend series, though my friends didn't think so highly of it so YMMV. Her other series the Young Elites seems to be getting a lot of attention though.

Moving into adults~
7. If you like romance novels, I've enjoyed reading Jeannie Lin's books.

8-10. There's always the classics by Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife, though there is some controversy in the AA community for her portrayal of Asian men. On my to-read list is the award winning The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini from Silicon Valley. Chang-rae Lee has also written several well regarded books, though I skew towards YA and found his books a bit heavy. (Lee, however, comes highly recommended by my celebrity crush .)

Nonfic recommendations~
11. Absolutely ANYTHING by Thich Nhat Hanh.

12. Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime by Jia Jiang, he gave himself a 100-day 'Rejection Therapy' where he would ask for something every day expecting to be rejected. There is a viral video of him at Krispy Kreme trying to get rejected for a request. Good stuff.

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NB: I do strongly recommend making efforts to complete your diversity challenge with , after reading Ellen Oh's post about it last month. For more info, I highly recommend these two articles:

by Jacqueline Woodson (in 1998!)
and
by Kate Sullivan, an editor in the publishing industry.

Yay! Thanks for letting me gush. I have way more YA and kidlit rec's, but I've probably said enough for now.

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Debbie wrote: "Oh, oh, this is my topic! I have tons of recommendations~

1-2. At the top of my list is both of Wendy Shang's books. The Way Home Looks Now takes place during the Vietnam War year..."

Wow, that really is your topic. I read The Way Home Looks Now last year. It was really good, so I am considering The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.

Also considering Grace Lin's and Jenny Han's books.

I did read Legend a couple of years ago, but didn't really get into it. (Might try a re-read because I didn't like how things turned out in book one. Maybe they got better in the sequel.)

For this challenge I'm going to try reading only YA and under books.

ok, I read The Land of Forgotten Girls

I really liked this one. It was a bit sad, but there was also hope that things would be okay.