Bookseller Recs
Finds some of our favorite bookseller pics below! From essay collections to new fiction, find some of our favorite picks! Currently, we only cover adult fiction, nonfiction, and cookbooks; but we'll expand to covering our other sections soon!
Geena is an absolute legend and a QUEEN! In Horse Barbie, she shares her incredible journey as a trans beauty queen from the Philippines to New York while navigating, pageants to modeling to activism..more than ever, we should be celebrating trans visibility, survival, and celebration.
If you love food storytelling...this books for you! I loved watching Chef Edward Lee on Culinary Class Wars Season 1, and I loved his writing in Buttermilk Graffiti...maybe even more? Mixing recipes, personal history, and stories from his travels, Edward Lee shows us how immigrants have shaped America's culinary landscape.
The title says it all. A tender coming of age memoir about growing up gay, Asian American, and working class in 1980’s Detroit centered around the author’s family’s Chinese restaurant where humor, egg rolls, and activism somehow all go hand in hand.
A Brooklyn Filipino based chef whose food we absolutely love! In the Kusina is a whole love letter to queer Filipino joy, chosen family, and the flavors Woldy grew up with. And it’s filled with personal essays and recipes that taste like home with a twist.
I find Elaine's stories incredibly fun with sharp and empathetic commentary exploring identity, gender, and culture. This collection of short stories and novella presents new characters and context with the absurdity, dark wit, shock, and humor I loved in Disorientation.
From doriyaki, to intergenerational friendships, grief, and more, Sweet Bean Paste is a quick read that packs a lot in its ~220 pages. I return time and time again to one of it's last passages around resilience, especially in our current challenging times.
A foundational novel in the Taiwanese queer lit canon. The terms “crocodile” and “Lazi” (the protagonist’s name) are now terms for lesbians in Taiwan, meaning Qiu is basically Taiwanese Shakespeare.
A fierce, lyrical blend of memoir and political critique, Julian Aguon confronts U.S. empire from his home in the Pacific, Guam...a place where colonialism, militarization, racism, and climate collapse are everyday realities. Urgent and incisive, this book asks what justice looks like when survival itself is an act of resistance.