AAPI Heritage Month

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Allie (11 Lists)



The Story of Japan's Ohmi Merchants by Kunitoshi SuenagaThe Music of Color by Fukumi ShimuraAn Introduction to Yōkai Culture by Kazuhiko KomatsuMixing Work with Pleasure by Toshio SuzukiThe Book of Urushi by Matsuda Gonroku
Japan Library / 事業概要
32 books — 2 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonRosalind Franklin by Brenda MaddoxLab Girl by Hope JahrenIn the Shadow of Man by Jane GoodallNobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Female Scientists
173 books — 108 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeIn the Miso Soup by Ryū MurakamiThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Yomiuri Prize winners
71 books — 13 voters
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi SakurazakaDawn by Yoshiki TanakaThe Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi YamamotoTen Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu MitsuseHarmony by Project Itoh
Japanese Science Fiction
53 books — 17 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
778 books — 3,253 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,120 books — 2,298 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,206 books — 2,332 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,361 books — 4,793 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,927 books — 3,622 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,803 books — 3,753 voters

In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun by Raicho HiratsukaThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenAzaleas by Kim SowolThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei ChenLost Souls by Hwang Sun-won
Weatherhead Books on Asia
41 books — 12 voters