Recs if you like Heart Lamp: Selected Stories...

A list with (your!) recs ✍🏻📚, because i am tired of searching on social media and finding nothing. We have to solve that.

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

short story collections by a single author in a variety of genres. recommendations welcome!

Trying to support indie publishers and read more diverse fiction! I’m starting with the Booker Prize and hopefully adding more when I can. Add your recs in the comments!

Indian writing starter pack - across various genres👋🏻✌🏻

This is not the Booker Prize for Fiction but the honor focused on translated work. This longlist has 13 books translated from 10 languages.

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

desi writers writing sometimes weird always amazing desi books that aren’t necessarily immigrant/diaspora books about being desi. would love for this to be turned into a quest!

Celebrate women in translation month all year round with this list of fabulous books

Stories by women from across the world, brought to us through translation.

with the exception of books i think are important to the diaspora or asian americans in general!

all genres!! pls scroll 🥁

A list to help those who aspire to read from authors outside the typical areas. I will be creating different list for different regions. I will also list the countries currently found in the list. Be sure to check out the other lists! Note: The countries are not perfect as some countries are classified differently, so I did my best.

Current Countries: Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Reading translated fiction changed the trajectory of my life so I need to return the favor by promoting them more

books from outside of the us that have taken home the gold (ideally in translation)

some of the books selected are from authors who were overall recognized

The International Booker Prize is awarded yearly to the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.

A (non-exhaustive) list of books translated into English from languages that are less commonly translated. Taking a fairly broad approach to ‘lesser translated’. Suggestions are welcome!