For Heritage/History months, I started doing a thing where I pulled media or books either about, by, or starring the people being celebrated.
Biographies
Eat a Peach - Chang, David
Family in Six Tones - Cao, Lan
Minor Feelings - Hong, Cathy Park.
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - Madden, T Kira.
The Song Poet - Yang, Kao Kalia
Mystery & SciFi
The Widows of Malabar Hill - Massey, Sujata
Malice - Higashino, Keigo
The Plotters - Kim, Ŏn-Su
The Grace of Kings - Liu, Ken
The Three-Body Problem - Liu, Cixin
Broken Stars - Anthology (translated by Ken Liu)
Fiction Books
Severance - Ma, Ling
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Vuong, Ocean
Trust Exercise - Choi, Susan
The Incendiaries - Kwon, R. O.
A Burning - Majumdar, Megha
The Kiss Quotient - Hoang, Helen.
Everything Here is Beautiful - Lee, Mira T.
Days of Distraction - Chang, Alexandra
What we were Promised - Tan, Lucy.
Killing Commendatore - Murakami, Haruki
Little Fires Everywhere - Ng, Celeste.
A Place for Us - Mirza, Fatima Farheen
If you Leave Me - Kim, Crystal Hana
A River of Stars - Hua, Vanessa.
Amnesty - Adiga, Aravind.
The Wangs vs the World - Chang, Jade
Girls Burn Brighter - Rao, Shobha.
America is Not the Heart - Castillo, Elaine.
Crazy Rich Asians - Kwan, Kevin.
The Joy Luck Club - Tan, Amy.
Pachinko - Lee, Min Jin.
A Tale for the Time Being - Ozeki, Ruth L.
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - See, Lisa.
The Island of Sea Women - See, Lisa.
Movies
IP Man (Season 1 - 2017)
Snowpiercer (2014)
Free Solo (2019)
Parasite (2020)
Searching (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Documented (2014)