READING RECOMMENDATIONS
FILIPINX AMERICAN LITERATURE
School Library Journal: "Reading Recommendations for Filipinx Americans" (Oct 2019)
MIDDLE GRADE
Chokshi, Roshani. Aru Shah series.
Cruz, Marie Miranda. Everlasting Nora.
Kelly, Erin Entrada. Blackbird Fly; The Land of Forgotten Girls; Hello, Universe; You Go First; Lalani of the Distant Sea; We Dream of Space.
Lim, Roselle. Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune.
Respicio, Mae. The House that Lou Built; Any Day With You; How to Win a Slime War.
Villanueva, Gail. My Fate According to the Butterfly.
YOUNG ADULT
Angeles, Janella. Where Dreams Descend.
Chokshi, Roshani. The Gilded Wolves series.
Chupeco, Rin. The Girl from the Well; The Bone Witch series; Wicked As You Wish.
Curato, Mike. Flamer.
de la Cruz, Melissa. Something in Between.
del Rosario, Juleah. 500 Words or Less; Turtle Under Ice.
Evangelista, Kate. The Boyfriend Bracket.
Fantauzzo, Laurel. My Heart Underwater.
Linmark, R. Zamora. The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart.
Milan, Maura. Ignite the Stars series.
Peñaflor, Lygia. Unscripted Joss Byrd; All of this is True.
Price, Shannon. A Thousand Fires.
Ribay, Randy. An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes; After the Shot Drops; Patron Saints of Nothing.
Roley, Brian Ascalon. American Son.
Salaysay, Cynthia. Private Lessons.
Villoso, K.S. The Wolf of Oren-Yaro; The Ikessar Falcon.
ADULT
Alvar, Mia. In the Country.
Apostol, Gina. Insurrecto.
Bulosan, Carlos. America is in the Heart.
Castillo, Elaine. America is Not the Heart.
Fajardo-Anstine, Kali. Sabrina & Corina.
Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters; Dream Jungle; The Gangster of Love.
Hagedorn, Jessica (Ed.). Manila Noir.
Manansala, Mia P. Arsenic & Adobo.
Pineda, Jon. Apology; Let's No One Get Hurt.
Ramos, Joanne. The Farm.
Tanamor, Jason. Vampires of Portlandia.
Tenorio, Lysley. Monstress; The Son of Good Fortune.
Yap, Isabel. Never Have I Ever.
POETRY
Bayani, Jason. Amulet; Locus.
Carbó, Nick. El Grupo McDonald's.
Carbó, Nick (ed.). Returning a Borrowed Tongue.
Cruz, Rachelle. God's Will for Monsters .
Pineda, Jon. Birthmark; the Translator's Diary; Little Anodynes.
Reyes, Barbara Jane. Letters to a Young Brown Girl; Invocation to Daughters; Diwata; To Love as Aswang.
Rosal, Patrick. Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive; My American Kundiman; Brooklyn Antediluvian; Boneshepherds; Atang
NONFICTION
David, EJR. Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino/American Postcolonial Psychology.
Francia, Luis H. A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos.
Fuentecilla, Jose V. Fighting From a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictatorship.
Galang, M. Evelina. Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War.
Ignacio, Abe. The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons.
Mabalon, Dawn. Little Manila is in the Heart.
Mijares, Primitivo. The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.
Ocampo, Anthony. The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race.
MEMOIR
Bataclan, Bren. Fe: A Traumatized Son's Graphic Memoir.
Dungo, AJ. In Waves.
Gharib, Malaka. I Was Their American Dream.
Ortile, Matt. The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance.
Talusan, Grace. The Body Papers.
Talusan, Meredith. Fairest.
Tizon, Alex. Big Little Man: In Search of my Asian Self.
Vargas, Antonio. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.
MORE RECOMMENDATIONS
MIDDLE GRADE
Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover.
Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage.
Kelly, Erin Entrada. Hello, Universe.
Myers, Walter Dean. 145th Street: Short Stories.
Pennypacker, Sarah. Pax.
Reynolds, Jason. Look Both Ways.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming.
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.
YOUNG ADULT
Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
de la Pena, Matt. Ball Don't Lie.
Gilbert, Kelly Loy. Picture Us in the Light.
Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Kiely, Brendan. Tradition.
Lacour, Nina. We Are Okay.
Lockhart, E. We Were Liars.
Magoon, Kekla. How it Went Down.
Marchetta, Melina. On the Jellicoe Road.
McGinnis, Mindy. Not a Drop to Drink.
Pan, Emily X. R. The Astonishing Color of After.
Reynolds, Jason. When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; All-American Boys (with Brendan Kieley); Long Way Down.
Shusterman, Neal. Challenger Deep.
Silvera, Adam. More Happy Than Not.
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World.
Suma, Nova Ren. The Walls Around Us.
Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes.
Whaley, Corey. Noggin'.
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King.
ADULT
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah.
Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies.
Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk.
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.
Howey, Hugh. Wool.
Hughes, Langston. The Ways of White Folks.
Larsen, Nella. Passing.
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven.
Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees.
Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine.
Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind.
Shepard, Peng. The Book of M.
Toomer, Jean. Cane.
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Bastian, Jeremy. Cursed Pirate Girl.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home.
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do.
Carroll, Emily. Through the Woods.
Dingess, Chris. Manifest Destiny.
Duffy, Damien. Kindred (illus: John Jennings).
Gaiman, Neil. Sandman.
Kirkman, Robert. Invincible.
Layman, John. Chew.
Liu, Marjorie. Monstress (illus: Sana Takeda).
Moore, Alan. Watchmen; V for Vendetta.
Morrison, Grant. WE3.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis.
Stevenson, Noelle. Nimona; Lumberjanes.
Tan, Shaun. The Arrival.
Vaughan, Brian K. Saga (illus: Fiona Staples); Runaways (illus: Adrian Alphona); Y: The Last Man
Wiebe, Curtis. Rat Queens.
POETRY
Brown, Jericho. The Tradition.
Clifton, Lucille. The Book of Light.
James, Thomas. Letter to a Stranger.
Jordan, June. Poetry for the People.
Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic.
Limon, Ada. The Carrying.
Lorde, Audre. The Black Unicorn.
Neruda, Pablo. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen.
Smith, Danez. Homie.
Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.
Williams, Saul. Said the Shotgun to the Head.
NONFICTION
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists.
Bissinger, Buzz. Friday Night Lights.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me.
Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning.
Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Gay, Roxanne. Bad Feminist.
Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. The Strength to Love.
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime.
Parker, Palmer. The Courage to Teach.
BOOKS ABOUT WRITING (MORE PRACTICAL)
Snyder, Blake. Save the Cat!
VanderMeer, Jeff. Wonderbook.
Yardley, Cathy. Rock Your Writing.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well.
BOOKS ABOUT WRITING (MORE ABSTRACT)
Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead.
King, Stephen. On Writing.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird.
Murakami, Haruki. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
MIDDLE GRADE
Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover.
Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage.
Kelly, Erin Entrada. Hello, Universe.
Myers, Walter Dean. 145th Street: Short Stories.
Pennypacker, Sarah. Pax.
Reynolds, Jason. Look Both Ways.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming.
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.
YOUNG ADULT
Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
de la Pena, Matt. Ball Don't Lie.
Gilbert, Kelly Loy. Picture Us in the Light.
Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Kiely, Brendan. Tradition.
Lacour, Nina. We Are Okay.
Lockhart, E. We Were Liars.
Magoon, Kekla. How it Went Down.
Marchetta, Melina. On the Jellicoe Road.
McGinnis, Mindy. Not a Drop to Drink.
Pan, Emily X. R. The Astonishing Color of After.
Reynolds, Jason. When I Was the Greatest; The Boy in the Black Suit; All-American Boys (with Brendan Kieley); Long Way Down.
Shusterman, Neal. Challenger Deep.
Silvera, Adam. More Happy Than Not.
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World.
Suma, Nova Ren. The Walls Around Us.
Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes.
Whaley, Corey. Noggin'.
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King.
ADULT
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah.
Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies.
Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk.
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.
Howey, Hugh. Wool.
Hughes, Langston. The Ways of White Folks.
Larsen, Nella. Passing.
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven.
Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees.
Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine.
Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind.
Shepard, Peng. The Book of M.
Toomer, Jean. Cane.
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Bastian, Jeremy. Cursed Pirate Girl.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home.
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do.
Carroll, Emily. Through the Woods.
Dingess, Chris. Manifest Destiny.
Duffy, Damien. Kindred (illus: John Jennings).
Gaiman, Neil. Sandman.
Kirkman, Robert. Invincible.
Layman, John. Chew.
Liu, Marjorie. Monstress (illus: Sana Takeda).
Moore, Alan. Watchmen; V for Vendetta.
Morrison, Grant. WE3.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis.
Stevenson, Noelle. Nimona; Lumberjanes.
Tan, Shaun. The Arrival.
Vaughan, Brian K. Saga (illus: Fiona Staples); Runaways (illus: Adrian Alphona); Y: The Last Man
Wiebe, Curtis. Rat Queens.
POETRY
Brown, Jericho. The Tradition.
Clifton, Lucille. The Book of Light.
James, Thomas. Letter to a Stranger.
Jordan, June. Poetry for the People.
Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic.
Limon, Ada. The Carrying.
Lorde, Audre. The Black Unicorn.
Neruda, Pablo. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen.
Smith, Danez. Homie.
Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.
Williams, Saul. Said the Shotgun to the Head.
NONFICTION
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists.
Bissinger, Buzz. Friday Night Lights.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me.
Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning.
Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Gay, Roxanne. Bad Feminist.
Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. The Strength to Love.
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime.
Parker, Palmer. The Courage to Teach.
BOOKS ABOUT WRITING (MORE PRACTICAL)
Snyder, Blake. Save the Cat!
VanderMeer, Jeff. Wonderbook.
Yardley, Cathy. Rock Your Writing.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well.
BOOKS ABOUT WRITING (MORE ABSTRACT)
Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead.
King, Stephen. On Writing.
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird.
Murakami, Haruki. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.