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Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the Sapphire Gooty Ornamental Tarantula, is a rare but aggressive breed of tarantula found in India. The species is critically endangered. This one seen here was bred from captive tarantulas by keeper Daniel Valcárcel Muñoz de León.
Our Favorite Books from Asian and Pacific Islander Authors Releases in 2026
Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month from WWC!
To celebrate, we’re shining a spotlight on some of our personal picks for 2026 releases from Asian and Pacific Islander authors.
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao | January 20, 2026 | Chinese | Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance
Jess: This debut novel by Shen Tao about a village girl who offers herself as a concubine to a cruel, violent prince to save her village from starvation. The prose is lush and immersive, with a terrific use of the Rashomon effect as Wei unravels the mysteries surrounding her husband while navigating dangerous court intrigue. However, this book covers darker themes, including child sexual abuse, so reader discretion is advised.
View on Author Shen Tao's website
The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto | February 10, 2026 | Kānaka Maoli & Hapa Haole | Science Fiction, Queer, Lesbian, Cyberpunk
Mimi: A standalone sci-fi heist novel about a bored hacker who is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician, only to find herself facing an unexpected enemy from her past. Written by a Pacific Islander author, this novel is part of an extended “lesbian space heist” universe set in a futuristic Hawai’i-like cityscape, with an all-sapphic and trans cast. I quite enjoyed how the story uses common sci-fi tropes like clones and AI systems gaining sentience to depict themes like labor exploitation, mass displacement, gentrification and surveillance.
View on Author Makana Yamamoto's website
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop (translated by Anton Hur) | April 28, 2026 | Korean | Short Stories, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Rina: An SF short story collection about the human yearning for connection—across alien cultural lines, across the border between life and death, across unfathomable spacetime. I was very taken with Kim Cho-yeop’s inquisitive approach to storytelling and her imaginative worlds, which gently ask us to consider the kinds of distances technology is unable to close.
Read my full review here:
Storygraph link
Goodreads link
The Girl With a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean | May 5, 2026 | Hong Konger | Fantasy, Horror, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Paranormal
Mimi: A historical gothic novel set in post-WWII Hong Kong, which blends folklore, commentary on war, and local legends to recount a tale of a ghost-talker woman, who confronts a powerful spirit in the Kowloon Walled City. I've not read this yet, but the premise sounds fantastic.
Behind Five Willows by June Hur | May 26, 2026 | Korean | Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Rina: An homage to Pride and Prejudice set in Joseon Korea, during a time of government book banning. A girl from a lower-ranking family is a secret novel transcriber; a young lord, an author. This gem of a story was a stunning introduction to the work of June Hur, whose characters are as charming as her elegant, nature-imbued prose.
Read my full review here:
Storygraph link
Goodreads link
The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions by Ruth Ozeki | June 2, 2026 | Japanese | Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Paranormal
Rina: A collection of literary short stories about desire, ambition, and the ways storytelling shapes reality and memory. Across a variety of settings, Ruth Ozeki creates a full range of sympathetic and unsympathetic narrative voices, resulting in stories that are grounded yet a touch strange, gritty yet beautiful, dark yet hopeful. Ozeki knows how to craft discomfort and hope in equal measure.
Read my full review here:
Storygraph link
Goodreads link
Let us know your most anticipated reads in the comments!
Update:
We have updated the language of this post to describe the featured authors more accurately. Thank you for your feedback and we apologize for the terminology mix-up!
We wish to be inclusive of the contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander creators to American media and culture regardless of where they come from, hence the non-American authors on this list. We hope you enjoy our book recs.
-WWC
Your recommendations
@gyroshrike recommends:
I would also like to suggest a book that just came out, The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe, an author from Hawai‘i! It's an adult fantasy and from what I understand, the magic system and linguistics are pretty tied together. (I JUST got it, so haven't read much yet.)
@sin-opa recommends:
I would recommend Burn the Sea [by Mona Tewari]. Indian-American author and debut about the colonial period of India and the Portuguese.
Yes, sure the gay hockey porn show sure is porny but Hudson Williams' performance of Shane has actively ripped out my guts and made me stare at walls for hours at a time. I have watched all five episodes (sorry episode three super fans, we will probably also disagree on everything else of importance in this godforsaken world) at least once a day for the past couple of weeks. I was late to the party because I knew I wouldn't be able deal with the sex show while my husband was going through radiation for his prostate cancer and I was right. Anyway, now that I've watched it, I've devoured it obsessively and not only because of the horny.
I may not be a young gay mixed Asian hockey player; I'm an old bisexual Autistic Pacific Islander with a tiger mom and fun dad. And the small, restrained expressions of Hudson's Hollander had me going through it with him in ways I can't even explain. To see such representation, such nuance, and understanding and depth of attention is truly a marvel. This is a master craftsman giving me myself, when before I've had Rain Man and Sheldon.
So to see huge swaths of people missing Hudson's genius entirely. To have people want to write him off and leave him behind? That damages a psyche. It is actually tearing me apart. Hudson is a genius and he and his career will be fine. But me? Just some lady who can't survive without her safe foods and emotional support husband? I won't fare nearly so well. A lot of us won't.
happy aapi month!
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happy aapi month to all my fellow gaysians, especially my trans siblings in asia and the asian diaspora! 🫶🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Asian Hair & Racism
"...white people, Asian people and other ethnic groups don't necessarily have the struggle that [Black people] have, when it comes to, or in relation to hair. So they've never been isolated, discriminated against, or had to encounter/experience racism because of their hair."
This was said by a Black creator talking about the appropriation of African-American styles of braids by Asian people (which I won't get into the weeds of. All in all, Asian people, listen to and RESPECT what African-Americans are saying about THEIR CULTURE and keep your hands OFF it.)
But to address this specific snippet. The first part is true.
Non-Black people have not faced the discrimination directed towards their hair in the same way that it is directed to hair on Black bodies. Hair that is not 4C has not faced the TYPE of discrimination directed towards 4C hair, especially 4C hair on Black bodies.
And this is also mutual: non-Asian people have not faced the discrimination directed towards their hair in the same way that it is directed to hair on Asian bodies. Hair that is not 1A has not faced the TYPE of discrimination directed towards 1A hair, especially on Asian bodies.
But the latter part is ahistorical.
The racial models created by Linnaeus (the most common and popular one that the West adopted), the Bernier descriptions, and the Blumenbach racial models all involved describing hair from different racialised groups, INCLUDING Asian peoples' hair. The Bernier descriptions fetishised Asian fem slaves (yep, sex slaves) for their features including their hair.
Asian hair has always been racialised.
Later, in US, there were policies created to control, humiliate and override the consent of Asian peoples to their hair; such as The Pigtail Ordinance, which mandated that Chinese men cut off their queue. While it was claimed to control "sanitary issues", the actual reason was that white people knew what hair meant to Confucian values (cutting it symbolises severance from one's ancestors and their gift of life) and wanted to humiliate them into submission.
Racist depictions of white slave masters pulling on coolie rioter queues and subjugating them with violence.
Hell, the chopsticks in hair depictions, the bangs on an Asian fem, the "Indian hair is so oily stinky and gross" issue prior to the "clean girl aesthetic slick-back bun".
Even facial hair on an Asian person was discriminated against whether it was Asian men unable to grow a full beard, the Fu Manchu beard to signify a villain, bushy eyebrows, or beards and mustaches on women.
Body hair on Asian peoples have ALWAYS been stigmatised whether we were nypermasculinised "too hairy with dark body hair", or if we were hairless and hyperfeminised + infantilised + fetishised + emasculated for it.
Sinophobic race-motivated hate crimes have involved Asian hair, including the display of it as trophies post-violence, murder, or other methods of dehumanising subjugation.
A hair for masculine people and on Asian mascs, is typically insulted as non-masculine (which is a form of Sinosexism especially targeting EA masculinity). Hair on Asian fems have been fetishised and exoticised which has led to material harm, this has shown time and time again in media, but also in reality.
Asian peoples have had their hair touched and cut without their consent (I personally can attest to this too).
Head coverings for Muslim Asian women, the fetishising of seeing a Muslim Asian woman's hair, and "liberals" forcing Asian women not to wear their hijabs, is also tied to the control and possessing a sensory experience of Asian hair. You wouldn't see this occurring to white people.
Hair and haircare for MANY Asian cultures is deeply significant, and so tight-knit with our ancestry and love for each other, it plays a role even in our cultural festivals, wedding and coming of age ceremonies. And it also has played an undeniable role in our traumas.
Queer Books by Asian and Pacific Islander Authors 🏳🌈📚
Happy AAPI Month!
I didn’t have as much time to this put one together as I decided to do it pretty last minute but I hope someone will still find a book they’ll enjoy!
Read and support Asian authors and creators all year round.
Fantasy: 🏳🌈🔮
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang
Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li
Muneera and the Moon by Sonia Sulaiman
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Siren Queen by by Nghi Vo
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu
Guardian: Zhen Hun by Priest
A Coffee Shop In an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee
The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Jade City by Fonda Lee
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera.
Sci-Fi:🏳🌈👽
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The L.O.V.E Club by Lio Min
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon He Lee
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
Hammajang Luck by Makena Yamamoto
In The Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Le
Horror:🏳🌈☠️
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tan
They Bloom At Night by Trang Thanh Tan
Chlorine by Jade Song
The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Brook Tsai
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
How We End by L.M. Juniper
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
The Devourers by Indra Das
The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui
The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin
Dawn’s Cozy Horror Corner by Dawn Chen
Night of the Living Queers by Shelly Page & Alex Brown
Romance:🏳🌈❤
Love Points to You by Alice Lin
Love In Focus by Lyla Lee
The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
Love Makes Mochi by Stefany Valentine
Cafe Con Lychee by Emery Lee
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
Like Water Catching Fire by EM Lindsey
When Tara met Farah by Farah Pammi
It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Sugiura
The Other Man by Farhad J Dadyburjor
You've Found Oliver by Dustin Thao
When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao
All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
Single Player by Tara Tai
Contemporary:🏳🌈📖
The Perfect Match by Adiba Jaigirdar
Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
The Skin and It's Girl by Sarah Cypher
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
This Feat of a Life by Holden So & Cynthia So
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu
Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
Baby Drag Queen by C.A. Tanaka
Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabrina Khan
I'll Be The One by Lyla Lee
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
Historical:🏳🌈📜
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
The Chosen and The Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Where There’s Room For Us by Hayley Kiyoko
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
The Gardens of Yes and No by Kae So Bu
The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella
