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Queer Books By AAPI Authors
A list of books with queer characters by AAPI authors
What does AAPI mean?
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Note: I apologize in advance if I’m incorrect about any of these authors being American. Of course I also recommend checking out books by other authors of Asian descent.
What does AAPI mean?
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life...
Note: I apologize in advance if I’m incorrect about any of these authors being American. Of course I also recommend checking out books by other authors of Asian descent.
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Mooncakes
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Suzanne Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 46,584 ratings
score: 483,
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 42,836 ratings
score: 384,
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4 people voted
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 112,816 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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The Chosen and the Beautiful
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 18,603 ratings
score: 287,
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The Magic Fish
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4.49 avg rating — 29,631 ratings
score: 285,
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Light from Uncommon Stars
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Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 37,413 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Timekeeper (Timekeeper, #1)
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Tara Sim (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 8,020 ratings
score: 261,
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
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Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 18,026 ratings
score: 199,
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Zara Hossain Is Here
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Sabina Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Meet Cute Diary
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Emery Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 9,474 ratings
score: 196,
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The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
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4.09 avg rating — 658 ratings
score: 195,
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The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel
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3.99 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
score: 195,
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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 12,148 ratings
score: 191,
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Babel
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 416,632 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Fake Dates and Mooncakes
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Sher Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 17,181 ratings
score: 187,
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A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix
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C.B. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
score: 184,
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Picture Us in the Light
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Kelly Loy Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
score: 178,
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Legend of the White Snake
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Sher Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,708 ratings
score: 177,
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Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
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Rita Chang-Eppig (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 5,197 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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The Loophole
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Naz Kutub (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 647 ratings
score: 172,
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2 people voted
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The Dos and Donuts of Love
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Adiba Jaigirdar (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 4,123 ratings
score: 170,
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2 people voted
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Final Draft
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Riley Redgate (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
score: 166,
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2 people voted
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The Best at It
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4.14 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
score: 164,
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Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1)
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C.B. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 8,731 ratings
score: 164,
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2 people voted
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Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
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Tanya Boteju (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
score: 163,
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2 people voted
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Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)
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Zoe Hana Mikuta (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 9,763 ratings
score: 159,
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Afterparties
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3.93 avg rating — 14,578 ratings
score: 157,
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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C Pam Zhang (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 26,117 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Lunar Boy
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4.19 avg rating — 2,381 ratings
score: 100,
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Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency
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4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 100,
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Memoir of an Innocent Brat
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Aaron Wang (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Waiting on a Bright Moon
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J.Y. Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
score: 99,
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I'll Be the One
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Lyla Lee (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,341 ratings
score: 98,
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Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 17,019 ratings
score: 98,
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Pizza Girl
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Jean Kyoung Frazier (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 31,039 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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A Line in the Dark
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Huntress
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 13,452 ratings
score: 95,
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Human Enough
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E.S. Yu (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 7,966 ratings
score: 94,
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Bruised
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Tanya Boteju (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,779 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Ash
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 37,620 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
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S.A. Chakraborty (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 74,512 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Tidesong: A Graphic Novel
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3.88 avg rating — 5,871 ratings
score: 92,
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Seven Ways We Lie
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Riley Redgate (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 6,991 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Summer Bird Blue
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Akemi Dawn Bowman (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 5,085 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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4.02 avg rating — 383,102 ratings
score: 89,
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Make Room for Love
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Darcy Liao (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Thirty Names of Night
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Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 5,146 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Love & Other Natural Disasters
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Misa Sugiura (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 2,363 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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When Tara Met Farah (Bollywood Drama & Dance Society, #1)
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Tara Pammi (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Your Love Is Not Good
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3.52 avg rating — 797 ratings
score: 84,
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The Red Scholar's Wake
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Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 2,510 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
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T Kira Madden (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 10,235 ratings
score: 82,
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Fireheart Tiger
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Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 5,498 ratings
score: 82,
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Flamer
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4.31 avg rating — 12,365 ratings
score: 81,
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The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart
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3.36 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 80,
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Deadline (Harrietta Lee, #1)
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Stephanie Ahn (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 621 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Dear Twin
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Addie Brook Tsai (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 77,
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Shatter the Sky (Shatter the Sky, #1)
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Rebecca Kim Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
score: 75,
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A World Between
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Emily Hashimoto (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
score: 74,
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The Legend of Auntie Po
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4.05 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
score: 73,
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Radiant Fugitives
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3.65 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
score: 70,
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We Are Totally Normal
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Rahul Kanakia (Goodreads Author)
2.60 avg rating — 3,790 ratings
score: 69,
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Want (Want, #1)
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Cindy Pon (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 4,989 ratings
score: 68,
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Hold Me (Cyclone, #2)
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Courtney Milan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
score: 65,
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