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I’m black and I love Asian horror and psychological thriller books. There is just something about how they are written that I love. I started to notice the majority of the books I’d save to my to read list were written by Asian authors.

STOP THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED SO SO SO EXCITED TO JUMP OUT OF MY READING BLOCK 🥰

THANK U FOR THIS !!! i love the way you actually showed a variety of different asian authors from different origins 🫶🫶

just added so many new books to my tbr!!

Wow! What a great discovery. I love Asian writers. Getting recommendations is fabulous and greatly appreciated. Thank you.😊

Congrats on SABC’s third yeaaaar?!! Also yes to supporting you as an expert on books by Asian authors 🎉 More to long videos of you gushing over books 💝

just finished if u could see the sun (took me 2 days) and im sobbing

I was just looking for a video like this. Thank you! 🥺 it’s so hard to find recommendations

This is perfect! Taking notes aggressively 😤

Helen Hoang's books are sooo good!!

the things is reading books by Asian authors feels like im watching dramas. def feels better

Help. Looking for an uplifting or happy novel written by an Asian or Asian-American author. I noticed I've been reading books that tend to have a sad or somber tone to them and would love to read something more tender and light to balance it out. Just finished reading Violets by Shin Kyung-Sook and need something to get me out of this sad bubble it left me in.

Laura Gao's graphic memoir Messy Roots. I read this book from cover to cover. It's pretty good. The author is lesbian. She likes women. Robin Ha's graphic memoir Almost American Girl. I read this book from cover to cover. I also read the Cook Korean! cookbook. I am about to read the author's graphic novel too just because it's written by the same author. The author doesn't talk about sexuality much, but I have heard that the graphic novel has sapphic/lesbian themes.

Thank you so much for your recommendations Alexandra🎀. I Read The Mountains Sing,The Henna Artist , Tokyo Ever After, XOXO etc, loved them. I Love love love your book club 💌🤍

I loved Before the coffee gets cold! 🤗 Thanks for the recommendations!! 🎉

Amazing list, it made me remembers why I love multi-generational books. If you have the chance, look at WILD SWANS, it's about 4 Chinese women generations story, I still feel the way it impacted me. Greetings from Costa Rica (pura vida)

I looked up Asian books to read ur vid came up first!

The way I scrambled to jot down The Mountains Sing when you screamed and mentioned it’s a multigenerational book.

I wish you left yhe name of the book on the screen while you talk about it. I sometimes look away from the screen and then have to go back to find which one you are talking about.

After all the "sad" mentions, I'mma need this video to be redone but with a sad ranking, start with the happiest and go in order of sadness to the most sad 😅

I enjoyed The Best We Could Do that I wanted something similar which I asked my local librarian who recommended Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lai. I plan on reading it after I finish a January 2023 release Song of Silver Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao. I have too many on my TBR but an author I am super stoked to start reading is Yoon Ha Lee’s novels.

MAKING MY BIG ASIAN HEART SWELL ❤😂

I loved your video and will absolutely buy some of your recommandations! I would like to add Shangai Baby by Wei hui and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Thank you for this video i want to read asian books

Hey Alexandra, I was looking to read some Asian books on self-development and military strategies like The art of war (Sun Tzu) and The book of five rings (Miyamoto Mushashi). Do you have recommendations?

Awww love your book videos especially 🤗💖

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I need to add all of these to my TBR, such good recs! the collected schizophrenia was such a good book! Have you read any Meiko Kawakami, Sayata Murata, or the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa? (all on my TBR)

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