7 Books to read for the month of Aanhpi and The Read Harder Challenge
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May be an Asian American, local Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Month of Heritage! To celebrate, I boxed a list of fantastic books from Aanhpi authors, who also check the tasks of The 2025 Read a more difficult challenge. We have a strange science fiction story, a mystery, a graphic memoir, a highly anticipated fantasy novel, romance, strange horror and poetry to choose from.
But of course, this does not even scratch the surface of all Aanhpi books that are worth reading this month and every month. Scroll to the end of this list to find links to even more recommendations.
Task # 1: Read a 2025 edition by Bipok.
Hamajang luck from Macana Yamamoto
Be gay, make a crime: this Queer, a debut science fiction novel is a story of Heist! Once in the future, Hawaii, Eddie trusted Angel, and now Eddie spent eight years in prison. Womb. Then Eddie receives the word that early conditional release is available – they just have to do one last job. For an angel. Eddie thinks it would be outrageous to trust Angel again. But they would also really like to get out of prison, so Eddie agrees. What can go wrong? – Liberty Hardy
Task # 3: Read a strange mystery.
Verndants (Claudia Lin Book 1) by Jane Peck
Claudia Lin’s whole Chinese family for her is to find a nice, safe career and a nice, safe Chinese boy. But Claudia likes girls and is not with all these things in the model’s minorities. In fact, she has just been appointed by a secret, only for referrals online detective agencies. As a lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis about Jane Austin, she’s pretty jazz for it. But when a client disappears, Claudia’s digging reveals walking to the company, she has never been meant to know about … –Vanessa Diaz
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