Our thanks to those who were able to join us for our SLAV online Book Club on Wednesday May 28th, 2025, to discuss the topic: South Asian Fiction
Many thanks to Mia from the Sun Bookshop for attending and providing recommendations and information on some new and upcoming release books.
We asked our members to share their favourite books South Asian Fiction reads.
As usual, we finished out session with attendees sharing what they have been reading lately.
Our next Online Book Club meeting is on June 26th and the topic of conversation is ‘Reading for Wellbeing’.
Disclaimer: The lists generated as a result of Book Club discussions are not, by any means, an exhaustive list of all titles or authors for each genre/category discussed. Nor will all titles be suitable for all libraries. We advise staff discretion when referencing these lists, to properly confirm individual title suitability for individual libraries, school and student’s needs. These are suggested titles only, shared by our members and inclusion on, or exclusion from, a list does not suggest SLAV endorsement or rejection of a title.
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
I Never Thought I’d End Up Here by Ann Liang (YA)
Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim (YA)
The Loveboat, Taipei series by Abigail Hing Wen
The last tiger by Julie Riew (YA) (Release date July 29th)
Can’t I Go Instead by Lee Geum-Yi (Adult)
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (YA)
There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon (YA)
From Twinkle with Love by Sandhya Menon (YA)
St Rosetta Academy series by Sandhya Menon (YA)
Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan (MG)
Ajay and the Jaipur Moon series by Varsha Shah (MG)
The Parvanna series by Deborah Ellis (YA)
The Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (YA)
Marikit and the Ocean of Stars by Caris Avendano Cruz (MG)
Two can play this game by Leanne Yong (YA)
The colours of home by Sally Soweol Han (PB)
Stay for Dinner by Sandhya Parappukaran & Michelle Pereira (PB)
The Boy Who Tried To Shrink His Name by Sandhya Parappukaran & Michelle Pereira (PB)
Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street - Felicita Sala (PB)
Grandmother from the East, Grandmother from the West - Jacinta Liu & Freda Chis (PB)
My strange shrinking parents by Zeno Sworder (PB)
Detention by Tristian Bancks (MG)
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks (MG)
The surprising power of a good dumpling by Wai Chim (YA)
The Pull of the Moon by Pip Smith (MG)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (YA GN)
My Mother’s Tongues : A Weaving of Languages by Uma Menon & Rahele Jomepour Bell (PB)
Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea Wang & Hyewon Yum (PB)
Growing up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Laiu (YA Verse novel)
Graphic novels by Remy Lai
Our Family Dragon : a Lunar New Year Story by Rebecca Lim (PB)
Millie Mak Maker series by Alice Pung & Sher Rill Ng (MG)
The Girl With No Reflection by Keshe Chow (YA)
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang (YA)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (YA)
Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen (YA)
How To Free a Jinn by Raidah Shah Idil (MG)
The Rebel Skies Trilogy by Ann Sei Lin (MG)
The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim (YA)
Strike the Zither by Joan He (YA)
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (YA)
Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan (MG)
Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae (YA)
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim (YA)
Six Crimson Cranes series by Elizabeth Lim (YA)
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (YA/Adult)
Aster’s next good thing by Kate Gordan (Release date June 4th)
Chronicles of a lizard nobody by Patrick Ness (Release date June 4th)
The foal in the wire by Robbie Coburn - verse novel
A Loo of One's Own: A Mostly True Tale of Australia's First Female Parliamentarians by Eleri Harris (Release date June 3rd)
The edge of everything by Miranda Luby
Drift by Pip Harry - verse novel (Release date July 30th)
Music camp by Penny Tangey (Release date June 3rd)
Everglade : Rise of the witch Book 1 by Kitty Black
Detective Beans series by Li Chen (MG GN)
The Butterfly Women by Madeleine Cleary
The Women by Kristen Hannah
Better Days Claire Zorn
Wandering Wild - Lynette Noni
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Stinkbug by Sinead Stubbins
The Only Branch on the Family Tree by Sheryl Clark
The Paperbark Tree Committee by Karys McEwan
Comes the night by Isabelle carmody
Birdy by Sharon Kernot
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