a Big List of Books authored by Asian American Christians
Increasing numbers of books are being published by Asian American Christians, spanning beyond Christian books that talk about theology, spirituality, or church leadership. There are also valuable books for a general public audience that happen to be written by Asian Americans who identify as Christians. (this is listed in no particular order; and I’m just starting to compile this list, inspired by May 2023 month for Asian Americans and mental health, when 3 new books are being released, with author interviews on the Erasing Shame podcast scheduled) Here’s the books I’ve found so far / please add more:
Non-Fiction Books by Asian American Christians
- Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Deborah Liu
- The Voices We Carry: Finding Your One True Voice in a World of Clamor and Noise by J. S. Park
- Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent by Iris Chen
- Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians by Jane Hyun
- The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities by Adrian Pei
- Good Idea. Now What? by Charles T. Lee
- Opening the Gates to Asia by Jane H. Hong
- Slanted Eyes: The Asian-American Poetic Experience by Sam Louie
- But I Don’t See You as Asian: Curating Conversations About Race by Bruce Reyes-Chow (also In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World)
- Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
- A is for Authentic: Not for Anxieties or for Straight A’s by Jeanie Y. Chang
- The Shame Myth: 7 Steps to Advance in Your Career, Relationships, and Purpose by Eddie H. Park and Hyo Kim
- Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen
- Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
Fiction Books by Asian American Christians
- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigal Hing Wen (and also Loveboat Reunion and Loveboat Forever) – New York Times bestselling author
- Sushi for One? by Camy Tang (Christian romance, suspense, and mystery) – USA Today bestselling author
- The Red Palace by June Hur (The Silence of Bones and more)
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (and also Boxers & Saints and more)
- Love Letters by Lily P. McLaughlin
- When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert (and more)
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (and more) – bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction
Books on Christian living, spirituality, or theology by Asian Americans
- The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self by Curtis Chang
- Now I Become Myself: How Deep Grace Heals Our Shame and Restores Our True Self by Ken Shigematsu (also Survival Guide for the Soul: How to Flourish Spiritually in a World that Pressures Us to Achieve and God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God)
- Passport to Shame: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict by Sam Louie (and more)
- Experiencing Friendship with God: How the Wilderness Draws Us to His Presence by Faith Eury Cho
- Made to Belong: Five Practices for Cultivating Community in a Disconnected World by David Kim
- A Holy Haunting: Why Faith Isn’t a Leap but a Series of Staggers from One Safe Place to Another by Sam D. Kim
- Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging by Tasha Jun
- Jesus Is My CEO: 52 Christ-Inspired, Practical Lessons for Entrepreneurs by Simon Lee
- You Are More Than You’ve Been Told: Unlock a Fresh Way to Live Through the Rhythms of Jesus and How (Not) to Save the World: The Truth About Revealing God’s Love to the People Right Next to You by Hosanna Wong (and more)
- Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation by Cindy S. Lee
- Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity by Chandra Crane
- Open Hands, Willing Heart: Discover the Joy of Saying Yes to God and Warrior in Pink: A Story of Cancer, Community, and the God Who Comforts by Vivian Mabuni
- Even If: Trusting God When Life Disappoints, Overwhelms, or Just Doesn’t Make Sense by Mitchel Lee
- The Missional Mom: Living with Purpose at Home & in the World by Helen Lee
- The Race-Wise Family: Ten Postures to Becoming Households of Healing and Hope by Helen Lee and Michelle Ami Reyes
- Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead To Lasting Connections Across Cultures by Michelle Ami Reyes
- You Are What You Do: And Six Other Lies about Work, Life, and Love by Daniel Im (also No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry and Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply with Ed Stetzer)
- Praying for Your Missionary: How Prayers from Home Can Reach the Nations by Eddie Byun (and Justice Awakening: How You and Your Church Can Help End Human Trafficking)
- Choosing Us: Marriage and Mutual Flourishing in a World of Difference by Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum
- More Christ, More Me: One Woman’s Spiritual Journey of Finding Her True Self by Eunice Lee
- Rhythms of Resilience: Faith Practices to Thrive in Chaos by Phil Chan
- Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by Makoto Fujimura
- The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective by Brian S. Chan
- Unbroken Faith: Spiritual Recovery for the Special Needs Parent by Diane Dokko Kim
- Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church by Daniel Yang and 2 others
- Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack by Alia Joy
- Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One’s Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope by Albert Y. Hsu (also Singles at the Crossroads: A Fresh Perspective on Christian Singleness and The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty)
- No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities edited by Eugene Cho and Samira Izadi Page
- Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate by Jenny Yang and Matthew Soerens
- Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
- A Better Country: Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst by Cindy M. Wu
- Chasing God’s Glory by Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young (also Glory Chasers: Discovering God’s Glory in Unexpected Places)
- Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up by Tiffany Bluhm (and more)
- Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy – edited by Nancy Wang Yuen and Deshonna Collier-Goubil, with AsAm contributors: Maria Su Wang, Stephanie Chan, Christina Lee Kim, Ji Y. Son, Jean Neely, Jenny H. Pak
- Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age by Felicia Wu Song
- Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age by Jay Kim (and Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age)
- A Counselor’s Guide to Christian Mindfulness: Engaging the Mind, Body, and Soul in Biblical Practices and Therapies by Dr. Regina Chow Trammel and John Trent
- Whispers of Rest: 40 Days of God’s Love to Revitalize Your Soul by Bonnie Gray (also Sweet Like Jasmine: Finding Identity in a Culture of Loneliness and more)
- The Value of Wrinkles: A Young Perspective on How Loving the Old Will Change Your Life by Isabel Tom
- Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson
- Liberation Is Here: Women Uncovering Hope in a Broken World by Nikole Lim
- The Intentional Year: Simple Rhythms for Finding Freedom, Peace, and Purpose by Glenn Packiam (also The Resilient Pastor: Leading Your Church in a Rapidly Changing World, Blessed Broken Given: How Your Story Becomes Sacred in the Hands of Jesus, and more)
- Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey by Sarah Shin
- Longing for Revival: From Holy Discontent to Breakthrough Faith by James Choung (also Real Life: A Christianity Worth Living Out and True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In)
- Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta
- The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah (also Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times and Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church)
- Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth by Sam Chand
- White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age by Alexander Jun and Christopher S. Collins
- When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace and GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart by Ruth Chou Simons
- Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? by Eugene Cho (also Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian’s Guide to Engaging Politics)
- Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up by Kathy Khang
- The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Christian Ocampo
- Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Jeff M. Liou and Robert Chao Romero
- Character Formation in Online Education: A Guide for Instructors, Administrators, and Accrediting Agencies by Joanne J. Jung
- Joyful Journey: Listening to Immanuel by Dr. E James Wilder III, Ms Anna Kang, Mr John Loppnow, Ms Sungshim Loppnow
- Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University by R. Scott Okamoto
>> see the many Asian and Asian American Authors at InterVarsity Press
etc many more…
sure, we could include Francis Chan and his bestselling book Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Books on Asian American Christianity, theology, church leadership
- MultiAsian.Church: A Future for Asian Americans in a Multiethnic World by DJ Chuang
- Conversations: Asian American Evangelical Theologies In Formation edited by DJ Chuang and Timothy Tseng; Contributors: Peter Cha, Timothy Tseng, Paul Lim, David Yoo, Lori Pierce, Paul Spickard, James Zo, and Jeffrey Jue
- Asian American Youth Ministry edited by DJ Chuang; Contributors: Joey Chen, Brian Gomes, Brian Hall, Eugene Kim, Danny Kwon, Caleb Lai, Angela Lee, Victor Quon, Joseph Tsang, Peter Wang, Justin Young
- Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded by Phuc Luu
- Tapestry of Grace: Untangling the Cultural Complexities in Asian American Life and Ministry – by Benjamin C. Shin and Sheryl Takagi Silzer
- Doing Asian American Theology: A Contextual Framework for Faith and Practice by Daniel D. Lee
- Learning Our Names: Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation by Sabrina S. Chan, Linson Daniel, E. David de Leon, and La Thao
- Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women by Grace Ji-Sun Kim (also Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World, Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love, and Here I Am: Faith Stories of Korean American Clergywomen)
- Finding Our Voice: A Vision for Asian North American Preaching by Matthew D. Kim and Daniel L. Wong
- Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
- Polycentric Missiology: 21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere by Allen Yeh
- Your First Year as a Campus Pastor: A Practical Leadership Guide to Build a Healthy Team and Culture by Sam Yoon
- The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church by Dave Gibbons (also Small Cloud Rising: How Creatives, Dreamers, Poets, and Misfits Are Awakening the Ancient Future Church and Xealots: Defying the Gravity of Normality)
- Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up by Simon Chan
- From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology by Sang Hyun Lee
- The Future of Evangelical Theology: Soundings from the Asian American Diaspora by Amos Yong
- Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches by Russell Jeung
- The Post-Racial Church: A Biblical Framework for Multiethnic Reconciliation by Kenneth Mathews and M. Sydney Park
- More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith edited by Jeanette Yep, Nikki A. Toyama-Szeto, Tracey Gee; contributors: Asifa Dean, Christie Heller de Leon, Kathy Khang
- Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents ~ Jeanette Yep, coordinator, with Peter Cha, Susan Cho Van Riesen, Greg Jao, and Paul Tokunaga
- Invitation to Lead: Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders by Paul Tokunaga
- Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans by Hak Joon Lee
- The Tao of Asian American Belonging: A Yinist Spirituality by Young Lee Hertig
- Mirrored Reflections: Reframing Biblical Characters ~ edited by Young Lee Hertig and Chloe Sun
- Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology by Gale A. Yee
- Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues edited by Grace Y. Kao and Ilsup Ahn
- Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life by Elaine Howard Ecklund
- God’s New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus by Rebecca Kim
- Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience by Carolyn Chen
- Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology by Jung Young Lee
- Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church by Christine J. Hong
- Also see this list of Books for Asian American Christianity, with books published prior to 1999
- And over at SOLA Network:
