Listmania!
CBS 2008 API Heritage Month Book List
By an Amazon.com customer
Stories of Your Life and OthersStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Buy used from: $24.52
A collection of stories from one of American speculative fiction's most precise and beautiful writers.
Atomik AztexAtomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $4.55
An Aztec prince or a Los Angeles meatpacker? The protagonist travels back and forth between two alternative realities, never sure which is real.
Hopeful Monsters: StoriesHopeful Monsters: Stories by Hiromi Goto
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $6.22
Wonderful stories by the author of The Kappa Child.
Never Let Me GoNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.39
In a dystopian England, three children discover that they are clones produced to provide organs to the sick.
Salt Fish GirlSalt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
Buy used from: $17.99
Science fiction set in a dystopian near future in which corporate enclaves house lucky employees, leaving most of humanity to deal with increasingly strange ecological developments.
The Poet's JourneyThe Poet's Journey by Amirthi Mohanraj
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $16.58
A young poet sets out into the wide world on a journey to find poetry; with the help of a few magical creatures, she finds more than she ever expected.
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $13.09 / Used from: $6.30
Mad experiments with the unleashed potential of the dreaming brain.
Of Love and Other Monsters: A Novella (Conversation Pieces, Volume 18)Of Love and Other Monsters: A Novella (Conversation Pieces, Volume 18) by Vandana Singh
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $11.49
The main character wakes up from a fire and doesn't know who he is, but can sense and manipulate the minds of others. He is not alone in this ability. Singh takes us on a metamind ride.
The ArrivalThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $11.72
A wordless graphic novel about immigration and displacement.
Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong AmericansBamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.40
The selection is actually ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EYE by poet Bryan Thao Worra, but Amazon appears to no longer have this available. You can get the book here: http://thaoworra.blogspot.com/ Description: Speculative poems that take us from the secret wars of the CIA in Laos to the secret edges of the human soul and the universe.