Episode 192

#192 - September 2022 Book News

On this episode, we highlight the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our September 2022 mid-month check-in, this month we also check out some recent book awards updates and have a chat about the sad recent trends of book bans.

New books and authors mentioned in our publishing news:

  • Song of the Six Realms by Judy Lin
  • Good Fortune by C.K. Chau
  • Covenant series by LySandra Vuong
  • Oxherd Boy by Regina Linke
  • My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
  • Toto by Hyewon Yum
  • A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai
  • The Spirit Mirror by Roshani Chokshi
  • A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel
  • The No-Shoes Home by Helena Ku Rhee; illust by Myo Yim
  • I Drew a Heart by Gillian Sze
  • Perfect by Waka T. Brown; illust by Yuko Jones
  • Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani; illust by Debasmita Dasgupta
  • A Sky That Sings by Anita Sanchez & George Steele; illust by Emily Mendoza
  • Goodnight Zodiac Animals by Jiemei Lin
  • Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist by Mia Wenjen; illust by Keith Henry Brown
  • Together on Eid by Sana Rafi; illust by Mariam Quraishi
  • When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
  • The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
  • All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
  • As She Appears by Shelley Wong
  • The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
  • A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
  • Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
  • All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
  • Seasons of Purgatory Shahriar Mandanipour
  • Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
  • Ibn Arabi’s Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan

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A book club podcast for books by Asian Diaspora authors