Reading list

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• Adult Fantasy
• Contemporary Fiction
• Childrens
• Comic Books
• Nonfiction & Memoirs
• Poetry
• Research
• Short Stories
• Young Adult Fiction

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Adult Fantasy 

Vajra Chandrasekera 

• The Saint of Bright Doors 

• Rakesfall 

Anton Hur 

• Toward Eternity 

Shelley Parker-Chan 

• She Who Became the Sun 

• He Who Drowned the World 

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Contemporary Fiction 

Yumna Kassab 

• The Lovers 

• Politica  

Siang Lu 

• Ghost Cities 

• The Whitewash 

Sara M. Saleh 

• Songs for the Dead and Living 

Jessie Tu 

• A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing 

• The Honeyeater 

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Childrens 

Melanie La’Brooy 

• The Wintrish Girl 
• The Lost History

Sandhya Parappukkaran 

• The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name 

• Stay for Dinner 

• Amma’s Sari: A Picture Book 

• Words That Taste Like Home 

Gabrielle Wang 

• Zadie Ma and the God Who Chased the Moon 

• Ting Ting the Ghosthunter 

• A Ghost in My Suitcase 

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Comic Books 

Rachel Ang 

• I Ate the Whole World to Find You 

• Swimsuit 

Benjamin Chee & Wayne Rée 

• Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers

Wayne Rée 

• Worlds Apart: A Conversation about Mental Health

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Nonfiction & Memoirs 

Benjamin Law 

• The Family Law 

• Gaysia: Adventure in the Queer East 

Louisa Lim 

• Indelible City 

• The People’s Republic of Amnesia 

Sarah Malik 

• Desi Girl 

• Safar 

Qin Qin 

• Model Minority Gone Rogue 

Sita Walker 

• The God of No Good 

Jennifer Wong 

• Chopsticks or Fork? 

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Poetry 

Sarah M. Saleh 

• The Flirtation of Girls 

Grace Yee 

• Chinese Fish 

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Research 

Mridula Nath Chakraborty 

• Being Bengali: At home and in the world 

Smriti Daniel 

• Wings: the story of the Sunera Foundation  

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Short Stories 

Bora Chung 

• Cursed Bunny 

• Your Utopia 

Yumna Kassab 

• The House of Youssef 

• Australiana 

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Young Adult Fiction 

Shokoofeh Azar 

• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree 

Keshe Chow 

• The Girl With No Reflection 

sydney khoo 

• The Spider and Her Demons 

Vanessa Len 

• Only a Monster 

• Never a Hero 

Michelle See-Tho 

• Jade and Emerald