Celeste Ng Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Celeste Ng

To this list I’d also add: - all of Grace Lin’s picture books (The Ugly Vegetables; Bringing in the New Year, etc.) - My Friends, by Taro Gomi - Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham

Celeste Ng

Beyond grateful to @PublishersWkly for this 🌟 review of OUR MISSING HEARTS: "An affecting family drama ... especially when offering testimony to the power of art and storytelling. Ng’s latest crackles and sizzles all the way to the end." https://t.co/bDweXP84hE

Celeste Ng

@TheLincoln The Scarlet Letter, The Turn of the Screw (if I remember right)--though that's not "early." Heart of Darkness, as others said--though also not early. I was also just looking at Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book (retellings of Greek myths) and it has the same pseudo-NF frame.

Celeste Ng

@jungkimphd It was such a pleasure chatting with you! Some other recent AsAm books that interrogate/subvert the mode minority stereotype: Gold Diggers (Sanjena Sathian), Joan Is Okay (Weike Wang), Kaleidoscope (Cecile Wong), Counterfeit (Kirstin Chen), Disorientstion (Elaine Chou).

Celeste Ng

I recently read this book and loved it— it's the story of a friendship that waxes and wanes and evolves over the years, which seldom gets depicted in fiction. Plus, it's a love letter to video games, the stories they tell and the way we use art to try to make meaning in our lives.

Celeste Ng

And, I just love love love when authors give little hat-tips to other authors in their books! I spy American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (another amazing graphic novel). https://t.co/3jio99S7nW

Celeste Ng

I seldom cry while reading, but Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell had me sobbing.

Celeste Ng

Hello, the 10yo just discovered and absolutely adored Neil Gaiman’s FORTUNATELY, THE MILK—what absolutely absurd middle-grade book should he read next? (He already loves the 13-Storey Treehouse series and Ronald Dahl.)

Celeste Ng

If you're looking for a great book to buy this Indie Bookstore Day, may I suggest THE YELLOW HOUSE by my #AntiracistBookfest co-panelist Sarah M. Broom? It's truly extraordinary. Available here from @thedockbookshop or your local indie: https://t.co/54ogaEBmiM

Celeste Ng

To this list I’d also add: - all of Grace Lin’s picture books (The Ugly Vegetables; Bringing in the New Year, etc.) - My Friends, by Taro Gomi - Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham