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Hi I’m Rochele! So happy to be a part Day 14 of the #ANHPIBookstaTour this year along with so many other wonderful writers and creators highlighting uplighting the ANHPI voices this month. This year I’d like to highlight some of my favorite fantasy and romance books, and share many more on my TBR. Reading has always been a journey for me, and so many wonderful books I have read recently has been thanks to this community. Books I’m holding that I absolutely recommend: The Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez Babel by RF Kuang Red City by Marie Lu House of the Beast by Michelle Wong Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang Please also check out my tour stop buddy @shaykauwe whose debut book is also on my TBR! And check out @anhpibookstagramtour for all the tour stops this month ❤️ Fun facts: - That’s my mini calamansi tree behind me, I’m so proud it’s been alive for a year now (pls ignore the weeds) - Photos are taken by me from the last time I was in the Philippines ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #anhpi #anhpibooks #booktour #bookstagram

Hi Friends! It’s finally time for my April recap and Diverse Baseline Challenge update! For those doing TDB, what were your favorite April reads? My favorite TDB read last month was definitely Dial A for Aunties!! I borrowed the audiobook from Libby, and was entertained from start to finish by both the writing and the narration! This book truly came to life in audio format. I used it for this bonus TDB prompt because the family business is in the wedding industry, which can be included in the gig economy! I cannot wait to start getting through more of Jesse Q. Sutanto’s backlist. This was the second title of hers that I have read this year and definitely will not be the last. For others who love her work - which book is your favorite?? #TDB2026 | audiobooks | BIPOC authors | read diverse books | nonfiction | nonbinary rep | support your local libraries | indigenous rep | bookcon

💜ANHPI Book Tour 2026💜 Annyeong! My name is Alice and I am a mixed race Korean-American early childhood educator by day and bookstagrammer by night! Being mixed race is something that I am so proud of, but it also often makes me feel like I’m torn in half: never Korean enough and never white enough. I grew up with people telling me I didn’t “look Asian”, while also making gimbap with my halmeoni and harabeoji and celebrating doljanchi. The truth is, there’s no such thing as being Korean enough or white enough; I’m just me. This is why it was so important for me to highlight books featuring mixed race ANPHI characters and/or authors. Books are some of the first places I saw my identity and struggles represented and I know that is true for many others as well. That being said, the books I have included are by no means an exhaustive list and I would love to collect more recommendations in the comments. Additionally, I would like to shout out @readwithcindy ’s Directory of Asian Books for helping me find a lot of these titles! Please go check out my co-poster for today, @lilpalindromereader , as well as all the other amazing posts that have been made so far! Thank you again to @anhpibookstagramtour for this opportunity and I hope to be able to participate again in the future! #anhpibookstatour #anhpiheritagemonth #anhpibooks #books #bookstagram

🇵🇭 ANHPI Bookstagram Tour: Day 7! 🇵🇭 Today is my stop on the #ANHPIbookstagramtour and I’m highlighting a series that made me feel seen both as a Filipina and as someone who has lost their mom. Content warning for this post: loss of a parent. Full thoughts in the comments. Thank you to @bookish.millennial  and @hyperfixatedreader  for hosting this tour and facilitating a space for Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander readers and writers to share their stories. Thank you to @booknerdkat  for founding and creating this tour in the first place! Be sure to check out @bibliomich who is also posting today! See alt text for image descriptions.

So excited about my picks for May's #thediversebaseline book challenge! For "fiction by a Southeast Asian author" I chose Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q Sutanto. Everything by this author that I haven't already read is on my tbr list and I'm a sucker for the "they correspond without realizing they already know each other" microtrope so I'm sure I'll enjoy this one. For "nonfiction by a Central/Middle African author" I went with The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil. A memoir from a survivor of the Rwandan genocide sounds fascinating, especially since this is a topic I know very little about. And my pick for "trans joy and/or messiness by a racialized author" is These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa! I LOVED Most Ardently by this author and am in the mood for something dystopian so this seems like the perfect choice for the category. Hope everyone is having a fantastic week! 🩷

I’m so excited to be part of the #ANHPIBookstaTour! 🤍🏞️☀️ For those of you who don’t know, I’m Kurdish from southern Kurdistan (Bashur), and I wanted to take this moment to highlight two Kurdish stories because our voices and history are so often overlooked. Kurds are one of the largest stateless peoples in the world, over 40 million strong, yet without an officially recognized country. Our homeland spans Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and our history is shaped by resilience and the ongoing fight for recognition. If you want to learn more about Kurdish people, I’d recommend starting with:
✨ Kurdish Women’s Stories by Houzan Mahmoud.
🔥 Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa. My goal is to keep reading and uplifting more Kurdish authors, so if you have any recommendations please send them my way 🫶🏻 Make sure to check out @thenomaddreamer ’s posts today too 💕 
Thank you to the hosts @bookish.millennial @hyperfixatedreader ! #KurdishAuthors #DiverseReads #Bookstagram #KurdishStories

to be loved is to be known or whatever!!! 😭🫶 i love this online book community sm ❣️ magic 8 ball sponsorship when tbh

ANHPI Heritage Month is a reminder that there’s no single narrative, just a vast, layered collection of voices and histories and lived experiences within the ANHPI community 🌏📚 From Homeseeking to Brotherless Night, from Sharks in the Time of Saviors to Afterparties, this list is just a starting point, not even the full picture! Every slide is a doorway to a different culture, perspective, story, and voice. And there are still so many more to discover!! If you’ve read any of these, I’d love to hear your thoughts 💭 If not, which one are you adding to your TBR first? 👀 Let’s keep expanding our shelves and our understanding together 💛 So excited for this post as my stop for the #ANHPIBookstaTour! Visit @novelisticnotions today too for more tour content! What ANHPI culture or country should I highlight in the future? 🌏 What’s your most recent 5 ⭐️ ANHPI read?? #readdiversebooks #ownvoices #bookstagram #diversebooks

Hi Friends! Welcome to the fourth episode of Books & Cooks! April’s recipe was Chamorro Buñelos Aga, or Banana Donuts! Each month for The Diverse Baseline Challenge, at least one of the three monthly prompts is for a book written by an author of a specific diaspora/background. For April, one of the prompts was a nonfiction book by an author indigenous to Oceania! My choice was Navigating CHamoru Poetry by Craig Santos Pérez. It took me a bit to choose a book for this prompt because it took some work to find a book that fit. This was definitely a call-in for me to try to read more books by authors indigenous to Oceania, but especially to seek out some more nonfiction! The Chamoru people are indigenous specifically to Guam, and I did not know anything about them before reading this book. Not only did I come away from reading it more knowledgeable, but it was surprisingly digestible for a nonfiction read! I would recommend this to anybody interested in poetry or in the history of Oceania and the culture there. After reading this, I am definitely planning to seek out more books because this is an area of the world I don’t remember learning anything about in school. These banana donuts are a popular sweet treat at fiestas in Guam, and they were so simple to make that I did them before work one morning for a breakfast snack! I would definitely make them again, but would adjust the heat on the oil better because they got a bit overcooked on the outside while just barely being cooked through on the inside. Try them out for yourself and let me know how they taste! #BooksAndCooks | Chamorro cuisine | own voices | nonfiction | TDB 2026 | home cooking | indigenous | Oceania | Guam | CHamoru

ANHPI Bookstagram Tour: Pacific Northwest Asian American Literature Thanks to @bookish.millennial and @hyperfixatedreader for inviting me on this year’s #ANHPIBookstaTour! If you’re not new here, you’ll know I am always concerned about place and region in literature. All too often, Asian American literature—and Asian Americans in general—wind up represented by, and reduced to, California and the Northeast. I grew up in Indiana, and my identity as an Asian American is inextricable from this setting no matter where I go. Last time I participated in the tour, I shared a stack of books representing Asian Americans in the Midwest, South, and Mountain West. Since then, I’ve moved to Oregon and have fallen in love with the Pacific Northwest. With my students at Oregon State University, I’ve been thinking a lot about our state and region’s literary histories. There’s so much literature with PNW connections that even readers within the region don’t know about; the same goes for PNW Asian American histories—even PNW Asian Americans tend to know little about regional histories. I’ve pulled some titles from my shelf that illuminate PNW Asian American histories and experiences. On my list, you’ll see classics of Asian American lit and popular contemporary works, but also outstanding work that few people seem to know about. This is limited to what I had on my physical shelves, so it’s deeply incomplete, but includes some of my favorite books of the past few years. Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever (2022) Rick Barot, Moving the Bones (2024) Sindya Bhanoo, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere (2022) Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy (2023) Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets (2023) Sonora Jha, Intemperance (2025) Johanna Ogden, Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River (2024) John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) Putsata Reang, Ma and Me (2022) Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1951) Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao (2022) Jane Wong, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (2023) Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (2021) Take a look at @theballadofgrace , who is also posting today! PNWers, sound off in the comments, and everyone, tell me what you’d add to this list (NH/PI books also most welcome).

hi everyone! I’m zoe! welcome to my tour stop on the #ANHPIBookstaTour Day 2. I like to read a lot of history and nonfiction, which has always helped me better understand my identity & the events/cultural forces that shaped it. Simultaneously, though, it’s made me more aware of the invisible hierarchies that shape how we see ourselves and others. These are my thoughts on those hierarchies, and how I’m trying to challenge them. These are not definite statements, obviously, just my own experiences & observations. Still, recognising these patterns has pushed me to question my assumptions and, hopefully, become more compassionate and open-minded in the process. I’d love to hear your thoughts, whether you’ve navigated similar questions or seen this from a different perspective! Excited to be sharing this day with @zeelacson - make sure you check out her post as well! (and a big ty to @bookish.millennial and @hyperfixatedreader for organising this!)

✨Apollycon 2026✨ I am so sad that @apollycon is already over!! This is one of my favorite events - it brings a lot of my favorite people and authors all into one place close to me! I had such a great time again this year, it was my 4th Apollycon and I hope that I can keep going year after year 🤩 From the signings to almost getting stuck inside the Gaylord to getting some of my most anticipated reads (DEFY THE DUSK AND TEMPEST!!) which felt so wild and amazing. It was also so great to give a rhinestoned copy of Arcana Academy to Elise Kova, I just wish I had gotten a photo/video of that moment but it was really great to share something I had made with the author who inspired it! ❓what was your favorite part of Apollycon if you were there?