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AANHPI Heritage Month: Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature - Adult Nonfiction

The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) recognizes "works by Asian/Pacific American authors that highlight Asian/Pacific American cultures and experiences." It is awarded by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. This list includes adult nonfiction winners and honorees.

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29 items

  • Loud

    Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

    Afualo, Drew, 1995-
    *Winner 2024-2025
    BookNew York : AUWA Books/ MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 791.092 AFUALO
  • Advocate

    a Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

    Ahn, Eddie,
    *Honor 2024-2025
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, [2024] — 363.7 AHN
  • Tip of the Spear

    Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962

    Alfred Peredo Flores
    *Honor 2024-2025
    eBookCornell University Press, 2023
  • *Winner 2023-2024
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — 362.4092 WONG
  • *Winner 2021-2022
    BookNew York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021. — 305.4889 CHO
  • America for Americans

    a History of Xenophobia in the United States

    Lee, Erika,
    *Winner 2020-2021
    BookNew York, NY : Basic Books, 2019. — 305.8009 LEE
  • Ghosts of Gold Mountain

    the Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

    Chang, Gordon H,
    *Winner 2019-2020
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — 331.6251 CHANG
  • *Honor 2019-2020
    eAudiobookHeraclon Publishing Canada, 2018
  • *Winner 2015-2016
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 973.0495 LEE
  • The Good Immigrants

    How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

    Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin
    *Honor 2015-2016
    BookPrinceton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] — 305.8951 HSU
  • Big Little Man

    in Search of My Asian Self

    Tizon, Alex
    *Honor 2014-2015
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. — 305.895 TIZON
  • Garden of the World

    Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley

    Tsu, Cecilia M.,
    *Honor 2013-2014
    BookNew York : Oxford University Press, [2013] — 338.1089 TSU
  • The Woman Who Could Not Forget

    Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking

    Chang, Ying-Ying
    *Winner 2011-2012
    BookNew York : Pegasus, [2011] — 818 C456c
  • Angel Island

    Immigrant Gateway to America

    Lee, Erika
    *Winner 2010-2011
    BookOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. — 325.794 LEE
  • Charlie Chan

    the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History

    Huang, Yunte
    *Honor 2010-2011
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton, [2010] — 364.12 A639h