40 Men and 12 Rifles

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling, a stirring graphic novel about love, beauty, and war in 1950s Indochina.

40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in ...

Kai's Tea Eggs

By Karina Zhou
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Asian Literature

An endearing and beautifully illustrated children's book about learning to embrace our heritage and celebrating what makes us unique.

Multicultural Day is coming up at school, and Kai is nervous about ...

The Whole Animal

By Corinna Chong
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human.

For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes ...

White Riot

By Henry Tsang
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Visual Arts, History, Photography

Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.

White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading ...

The Lost Century

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, love, and loyalty during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.

On the ...

Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One

Text by Willie Poll
Illustrated by Chief Lady Bird
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

In this beautifully illustrated book, a determined young Anishnaabe girl in search of adventure goes on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory. She is joined by a chorus of ...

Magodiz

By Gabe Calderon
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Fiction

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.

Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away ...

The Future Is Disabled

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, LGBTQ+ Literature, Disability Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And ...

Tsqelmucwilc

By Celia Haig-Brown, Randy Fred, and Garry Gottfriedson
Categories: British Columbia, History, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Canada

In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating ...

Bedtime in Nunatsiavut

By Raeann Brown
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the transformative dreams envisioned by a young Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother.

In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns ...