MOCA  Book Recommendations

  • Shining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World (2023) by Veeda Bybee, Illustrated by Victo Ngai
  • Banishing Orientalism: Dancing between Exotic and Familiar (2023) by Phil Chan
  • Ghost Town (2022) by Kevin Chen
  • Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (2023) by Ava Chin
  • Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder (2020) by Margaret M. Chin
  • The Piano Tuner (2023) by Chiang-Sheng Kuo
  • I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story (2021) by Martha Brockenbrough and Grace Lin, illustrated by Julia Kuo
  • Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (2022) by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang
  • If China Has Hands (1937) by H.T. Tsiang
  • Chinese Homestyle: Everyday Plant-Based Recipes for Takeout, Dim Sum, Noodles, and More (2022) by Maggie Zhu

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