Celebrating AAPI Month 2023
In the USA, May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (sometimes now expanded to Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. AAR annually takes this chance to uplift books we have loved by authors of AAPI heritage, wherever they live.
Please enjoy these DIKs!
And check out our previous AAPI Heritage Month top lists here:
I’ve liked a number of Ana Huang’s contemporary romances. Her MCs are of various ethnicities, and the romances tend toward NA especially in terms of the ages of the heroines—although they tend to have more life experience than most NA heroines. I especially liked TWISTED GAMES, a royal-bodyguard romance.
I liked her latest book, King of Pride, because Kai was surprising different from the morally grey men in the other Huang books I’ve read in that he didn’t want to be involved in any illegal business dealings:)
I recommend m/m fantasy author Nazri Noor to anyone who likes m/m, and also likes imaginative fantasy settings, good worldbuilding, great plots and action, and humor. I’m working my way through his Arcane Hearts series on audiobook and have enjoyed each one! He has other series for me to move on to, which makes me happy. Caz has reviewed several of his audiobooks on audiogal.net.
Seconded – his books are a lot of fun without being total fluff!