Asian or Pacific Islander Author
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
- Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
- YA: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Book with a One Word Title
- Emma by Jane Austen
- IQ by Joe Ide
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- YA: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Short Story Collection
- Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
- Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang
- My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
- YA: The Legendary Frybread Drive In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitch Smith
- YA: Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes by Nora Carpenter
Published Before 1990
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- YA: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier