Celebrate the diversity of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles at AAPI Joy, a free festival for all ages. Explore the City’s rich AAPI heritage and join us in forging a shared future of acceptance, cooperation, and inspiration with the greater Los Angeles community.
This event is free and open to all, so bring your friends and family along for a day of celebration and learning.
Explore
Shades of L.A.
Oral Histories
Photographs
Read
Kanopy: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
AAPI Heritage Month: Adult
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A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of Secrets, Lies and Family Love
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A Man of Two Faces
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Banyan Moon
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Crying in H Mart
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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Dial A for Aunties
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Evergreen
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Hula
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I Am Oum Ry
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Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-literatures
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Interior Chinatown
Winner: 2020 National Book Award for Fiction
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Klara and the Sun
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Koreatown Dreaming: Stories & Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life
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Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
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Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories From the Island Nation
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Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed
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Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America
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The Bandit Queens
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The Great Reclamation
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Time Is a Mother
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Yellowface
AAPI Heritage Month: Young Adult
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A First Time for Everything
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And Break the Pretty Kings
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Chasing Pacquiao
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Damned If You Do
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Darius the Great Deserves Better
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Fake Dates and Mooncakes
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Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam
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Firebird
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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement
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Himawari House
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Hungry Ghost
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I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
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In Limbo
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Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win
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Kismat Connection
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Kween
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Lunar New Year Love Story
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Magic Has No Borders
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
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Monstrous : A Transracial Adoption Story
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Of Light and Shadow
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Pahua and the Soul Stealer
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Perfectly Parvin
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She is a Haunting
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The Dos and Donuts of Love
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The Silence That Binds Us
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This Place is Still Beautiful
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Troublemaker
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What a Desi Girl Wants
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When You Wish Upon a Lantern
AAPI Heritage Month 2026
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A guardian and a thief
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A Mouthful of Dust
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A shipwreck in Fiji
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A song to drown rivers
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Becoming ghost
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Boat baby : a memoir
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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Flashlight : a novel
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Gaysians
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Homeseeking
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Immortal
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![It rhymes with Takei : [graphic novel]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/hot-titles-scroller/public/items/2025/c0558b854ac5bae18fccfecbfbff56ea.jpg?itok=cX0gdu7v)
It rhymes with Takei : [graphic novel]
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Kuleana : a story of family, land, and legacy in old hawai'i
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My Cambodia : a Khmer cookbook
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Pick a color : a novel
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Real Americans: A Novel
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Rejection : fiction
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Six days in Bombay
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The autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace
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The emperor of gladness : a novel
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The family recipe : a novel
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The healing hippo of Hinode Park : a novel
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The hollow half : a memoir of bodies and borders
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
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To save and to destroy : writing as an other
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Unassimilable : an Asian diasporic manifesto for the twenty-first century
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Vanishing world : a novel
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Vera Wong's guide to snooping (on a dead man)
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Water Moon
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We do not part : a novel
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What a time to be alive : a novel
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What we left unsaid : a novel
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Where are you really from : stories
Children's Fiction
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Bee-Bim Bop!
An eager little girl helps her mama make bee-bim bop, a Korean dish with meat and vegetables mixed with rice and a spicy, sweet, savory s
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'Ohana Means Family
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A Different Pond
Celebrated poet Bao Phi tells a father-son story based on his own childhood.
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A gift for Amma : market day in India
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A Scarf for Keiko
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A Wish in the Dark
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Alvin Ho : allergic to camping, hiking, and other natural disasters
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Amina's voice
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Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
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Bilal Cooks Daal
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Drawn Together
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
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Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
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Festival of colors
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From the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea
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Front Desk
Mia Tang helps her parents run an Anaheim motel that becomes a haven for struggling immigrants.
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Grandfather's Journey
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Green Lantern: Legacy
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Hand over hand
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Hush! : a Thai lullaby
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I Dream of Popo
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In the Beautiful Country
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Inside Out & Back Again
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Jasmine Toguchi, mochi queen
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Key Player
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Kira-Kira
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Lalani of the Distant Sea
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Landed
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Leila in saffron
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Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words
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Maizy Chen's Last Chance
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Measuring up
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Meet Yasmin!
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Mindy Kim and the yummy seaweed business
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New From Here
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Pie in the Sky
In this funny, emotional hybrid chapter book/graphic novel, 11-year old Jingwen struggles after his father's accidental death and immigra
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Prairie lotus
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Rosa's Song
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Save me a seat
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Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
11-year-old Yumi Chung keeps busy at school and helping out at her parents’ restaurant in L.A.’s Koreatown, but what she really wants is
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Stargazing
Can two people that are so different get along with each other?
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Step Up To the Plate, Maria Singh
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Tall story
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The boy & the bindi
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The House That Lou Built
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The many colors of Harpreet Singh
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The Most Beautiful Thing
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The Name Jar
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The Paper Boat
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The way to Bea
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Under my hijab