We’re gearing up to celebrate Lunar New Year (starting Feb. 1) and the Year of the Tiger (2022)! Lunar New Year, also called Spring Festival, lasts for 15 days and is the most important holiday in China. This festival is also celebrated in Vietnam (where it’s known as Tet), North and South Korea (where it’s known as Solnal) and Tibet (where it is called Losar).
We hope you enjoy these recommended reads to learn more about Lunar New Year, East Asian history, culture and stories.
Fiction
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
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Non-Fiction
All you can Ever Know : a Memoir by Nicole Chung
The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls : a Memoir by T Kira Madden
Minor Feelings : an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Middle Grade
Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade by Lyla Lee
The Dragon Warrior by Katie Zhao
Picture Books
Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin
D is For Dragon Dance by Ying Chang Compestine
Playing with Lanterns by Wang Yage (on order)
The Nian Monster by Andrea Wang
The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine
The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale by Ying Chang Compestine
