OCTOBER BOOK LIST
Celebrate Filipino-American History Month, Italian-American Heritage Month, and Polish-American Heritage Month with us by checking out our new book list!
Celebrate Filipino-American History Month, Italian-American Heritage Month, and Polish-American Heritage Month with us by checking out our new book list!
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<strong>OCTOBER</strong><br />
<strong>BOOK</strong> <strong>LIST</strong><br />
FILIPINO-AMERICAN<br />
HISTORY MONTH<br />
ITALIAN-AMERICAN<br />
HERITAGE MONTH<br />
POLISH-AMERICAN<br />
HERITAGE MONTH
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
Monstress by Lysley<br />
Tenorio<br />
fiction contemporary short<br />
stories emotional reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
Patron Saints of Nothing by<br />
Randy Ribay<br />
fiction contemporary young<br />
adult challenging emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
In the Country by Mia Alvar<br />
fiction literary short<br />
stories emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
Letters to a Young Brown<br />
Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes<br />
nonfiction poetry<br />
emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
The Groom Will Keep His Name<br />
by Matt Ortile<br />
nonfiction essays lgbtqia+<br />
memoir challenging emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte<br />
Bautista<br />
fiction contemporary<br />
lgbtqia+ romance emotional<br />
lighthearted slow-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
Fairest by Meredith<br />
Talusan<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir<br />
challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol<br />
fiction historical literary<br />
challenging informative<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Dear America: Notes of an<br />
Undocumented Citizen by Jose<br />
Antonio Vargas<br />
nonfiction memoir politics<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
More Than Organs by Kay<br />
Ulanday Barrett<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ poetry<br />
emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
America Is Not the Heart by<br />
Elaine Castillo<br />
fiction historical lgbtqia+<br />
literary emotional informative<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Queen’s Assassin by<br />
Melissa de la Cruz<br />
fiction fantasy romance<br />
young adult adventurous<br />
medium-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
The Body Papers: A Memoir by<br />
Grace Talusan<br />
nonfiction biography memoir<br />
challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Woman Who Had Two Navels<br />
and Tales of the Tropical Gothic<br />
by Nick Joaquin<br />
fiction classics historical magical<br />
realism short stories reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
When the Elephants Dance<br />
by Tess Uriza Holthe<br />
fiction historical emotional<br />
informative slow-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
We Have Not Stopped<br />
Trembling Yet by E.J.R. David<br />
nonfiction history memoir<br />
informative reflective slowpaced<br />
The Never-Tilting World by Rin<br />
Chupeco<br />
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young<br />
adult adventurous mysterious<br />
fast-paced<br />
Babaylan: Filipinos and The<br />
Call of the Indigenous Edited<br />
by Leny Mendoza Strobel<br />
nonfiction informative<br />
reflective medium-paced
FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<br />
Big Little Man: In Search of My<br />
Asian Self by Alex Tizon<br />
nonfiction biography memoir<br />
race challenging informative<br />
reflective medium-paced
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Shoemaker's Wife by<br />
Adriana Trigiani<br />
fiction historical romance<br />
emotional reflective slowpaced<br />
The Family by Naomi<br />
Krupitsky<br />
fiction historical emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
The Italian Prisoner by Elisa<br />
M. Speranza<br />
fiction historical emotional
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Mother in the Dark by<br />
Kayla Maiuri<br />
fiction literary emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
Full of Grace by Dorothea<br />
Benton Frank<br />
fiction romance emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Seven or Eight Deaths of<br />
Stella Fortuna by Juliet<br />
Grames<br />
fiction historical emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Call Me By Your Name by<br />
André Aciman<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ literary<br />
emotional reflective sad<br />
slow-paced<br />
Leading Men by Christopher<br />
Castellani<br />
fiction historical lgbtqia+<br />
emotional reflective sad<br />
slow-paced<br />
Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa<br />
fiction historical<br />
emotional reflective slowpaced
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Italians of Northeastern<br />
Pennsylvania by Stephanie<br />
Longo<br />
nonfiction history informative<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
My Father’s Daughter, From<br />
Rome to Sicily by Gilda Morina<br />
Syverson<br />
nonfiction autobiography<br />
biography memoir travel reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
Sicily: Land of Love and<br />
Strife by Mark Spano<br />
adventurous informative<br />
reflective medium-paced
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Authentic Italian: The Real<br />
Story of Italy’s Food and Its<br />
People by Dina M. Di Maio<br />
informative lighthearted<br />
medium-paced<br />
Essentials of Classic Italian<br />
Cooking: A Cookbook by<br />
Marcella Hazan<br />
nonfiction informative<br />
lighthearted slow-paced<br />
Giada's Italy: My Recipes For La<br />
Dolce Vita: A Cookbook by Giada<br />
De Laurentiis<br />
nonfiction food and drink<br />
informative lighthearted<br />
medium-paced
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Therese Rocco: Pittsburgh's<br />
First Female Assistant Police<br />
Chief by Therese Rocco<br />
informative reflective fastpaced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
Anna and the Swallow Man<br />
by Gavriel Savit<br />
fiction historical young<br />
adult emotional mysterious<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall<br />
Kelly<br />
fiction historical literary<br />
dark emotional sad mediumpaced<br />
Bread Givers by Anzia<br />
Yezierska<br />
fiction classics historical<br />
challenging emotional<br />
reflective fast-paced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Lullaby of Polish Girls<br />
by Dagmara Domińczyk<br />
fiction contemporary<br />
emotional medium-paced<br />
Solaris by Stanisław Lem,<br />
Joanna Kilmartin (Translator),<br />
Steve Cox (Translator)<br />
fiction classics science fiction<br />
adventurous slow-paced<br />
Forefathers' Eve by Adam<br />
Mickiewicz<br />
fiction classics challenging<br />
reflective slow-paced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Captive Mind by<br />
Czeslaw Milosz<br />
nonfiction essays politics<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
With Fire and Sword by<br />
Henryk Sienkiewicz<br />
fiction classics historical<br />
challenging reflective slowpaced<br />
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk with<br />
Jennifer Croft (Translator)<br />
fiction literary short stories<br />
travel adventurous challenging<br />
reflective slow-paced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Street of Crocodiles by<br />
Bruno Schulz<br />
fiction classics short stories<br />
mysterious reflective<br />
relaxing slow-paced<br />
The Last Wish by Andrzej<br />
Sapkowski with Danusia Stok<br />
(Translator)<br />
fiction fantasy short stories<br />
adventurous fast-paced<br />
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy<br />
Growing Up in Warsaw by Isaac<br />
Bashevis Singer<br />
nonfiction biography history<br />
memoir challenging reflective<br />
slow-paced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Romance of Teresa Hennert by<br />
Zofia Nalkowska with Megan<br />
Thomas (Translator), Ewa<br />
Malachowska-Pasek (Translator)<br />
fiction literary reflective mediumpaced<br />
The Tin Drum by Günter<br />
Grass with Ralph Manheim<br />
fiction classics literary<br />
reflective sad slow-paced<br />
All But My Life: A Memoir by<br />
Gerda Weissmann Klein<br />
nonfiction history memoir<br />
emotional reflective sad slowpaced
POLISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH<br />
The Old Axolotl: Hardware<br />
Dreams by by Jacek Dukaj with<br />
Stanley Bill (Translator)<br />
fiction fantasy science fiction<br />
adventurous medium-paced
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