Asian American & Pacific Islander Resources

Updated: May 2026

The CBC is happy to share the news about the prestigious Freeman Book Awards, honoring East and Southeast Asian titles for children and young adults.

You can see the 2025 award winners at their site, including picture books, books for middle graders, and young adult fiction and graphic novels. Judging is underway for the 2026 awards. 

While we continue to enrich our AAPI booklist with standout titles like those featured below, we also want to highlight this curated guide to 18 AAPI-owned bookstores. Together, these resources reflect our ongoing commitment to amplifying diverse voices and supporting the creators behind them.

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To recognize and celebrate the rich culture and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the CBC has curated an up-to-date list of new and backlist books. This list was created in April of 2025 and we will add books throughout the year.

You can also download this list as a spreadsheet!

Educational Resources

• Stop AAPI Hate—Stop AAPI Hate Website
• Asian Youth Center—Asian Youth Center Website
• Asian American and Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander Heritage Month—Share My Lesson
• Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Community—Cornell University’s Asian American Studies Program
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Library—American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 
• 17 Mental Health Resources For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—Verywell Mind
• NAAPIMHA Resources —The National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
• Stand Up for AAPI Youth—Beyond Differences
• #StopAsianHate: Resources for Teaching & Learning—Student Voice
• Additional Resources on Supporting Asian / Asian American Children and Youth—Society for Research in Child Development
• AAPI Resources for Educators—CSD Learns
• The Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit—Grassroots Asian Rising
• Pippa Park AAPI Discussion Guide and Anti-Racism Resources—Fabled Films Press

Booklists: Children’s, Middle Grade, and Young Adult

• Asian / Asian American Children’s Books—Lee & Low Books
• The Best 9 Children’s Books to Combat Asian Racism with Tips to Raise Anti-Racists—Little Feminist
• 100 Brilliant Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI) Children’s Books—Imagination Soup
• Asian Americans—Social Justice Books
• 11 Nonfiction Titles for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month—School Library Journal
• Stop Anti-Asian Racism and Violence and AAPI Reading Recommendations—Powell’s City of Books
• 27 Children’s & YA Books Written by Asian Authors—ReadBrightly 
• Fighting Asian Hate and Fostering Empathy with Children’s Books—National Education Association 
• 50+ Tween Books Starring Kids of Asian Descent—Reading Middle Grade
• Middle-Grade Books by Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors—Wild Rumpus

• CBC Resources:
  • Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • Stop Asian Hate Book Lists and Resources
  • 7 Books About Growing Up Asian-American I Wish I’d Had As a Kid
  • Diversity 101: Asians as the Model Minority—by Janet Wong
  • Representation can also be found in our CBC Showcases: Trailblazers, Champions of Change, and more!

And more socially inclusive resources and booklists will continue to come throughout the year!

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PUBLISHERS: if you wish to share your AAPI or other socially inclusive books and resources, please email us at cbc.info@cbcbooks.org.

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