Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Health

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Social Issues

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

In ...

Chinatown Ghosts

By Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Photography, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across ...

The Tiger Flu

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

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

Manila by Night

By Joel David
Series edited by Matthew Hays & Thomas Waugh
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media, BIPOC, Asian Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on a controversial 1980 film by queer Filipino filmmaker Ishmael Bernal.

A Queer Film Classic on Ishmael Bernal's 1980 film that follows a dozen characters, all denizens of Manila's ...

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

Text by Kai Cheng Thom
Illustrated by Kai Yun Ching & Wai-Yant Li
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love.

In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon ...

Oracle Bone

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A magic-realist novel set in seventh-century China featuring ghosts, martial arts, and the transformative oracle bone.

Life in seventh-century China teems with magic, fox spirits, and demons; there is ...

Saigon Calling

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: History, Youth Culture, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies.

Marcelino Truong's first book about the early years of the Vietnam war, the ...