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Below is a list of all Book Spotlight posts published on this blog to date. They are listed alphabetically by the author’s first name.

Akemi Dawn Bowman

• Starfish
• Summer Bird Blue

Akiko Hashimoto

• The Long Defeat

Allen Say

• Drawing from Memory
• Grandfather’s Journey
• Kamishibai Man

Alma Katsu

• The Hunger

Amy Lee-Tai

• A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

Amy Uyematsu

• The Yellow Door

Andrew Fukuda

• TBD

April Naoko Heck

• A Nuclear Family

Brandon Shimoda

• “I Am an American”

Brian Komei Dempster

• TBD

Brynn Saito

• The Palace of Contemplating Departure

Candace Fujikane

• Asian Settler Colonialism (ed.)

Caroline M. Yoachim

• The Archronology of Love

Cindy Mochizuki

• 海岸線にいる生き物たち

Cynthia Kadohata

• Kira-Kira
• Outside Beauty
• Saucy
• The Thing About Luck
• Weedflower

Dale Furutani

• TBD

David Mura

• TBD

Debbi Michiko Florence

• Jasmine Toguchi
  • Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen
  • Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth

• Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai
• Keep It Together, Keiko Carter
• Sweet and Sour
• The Fisher Boy (with Sachiko Yoshikawa)

Eiichiro Azuma

• Between Two Empires

Emery Lee

• TBD

Emiko Jean

• TBD

Emily Inouye Huey

• Wat Kept Playing

Esumi Fujimoto

• “Careful, Mama Says”

Felicia Hoshino

• Sora and the Cloud

Fumio Obata

• Just So Happens

Gail Tsukiyama

• The Samurai’s Garden

George Takei

• They Called Us Enemy

Hana Chittenden Maruyama

• Fear Itself

Harmony Becker

• Himawari House

Hiromi Goto

• Shadow Life

Iris Yamashita

• City Under One Roof
• Village in the Dark

James Nagareda

• San Jose’s Japantown

Jamie Noguchi

• Yellow Peril

Jane Yamashiro

• TBD

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

• Farewell to Manzanar

Jillian Tamaki

• They Say Blue

Joy Kogawa

• TBD

J.P. Takahashi

• Tokyo Night Parade

Julie Kagawa

• Blood of Eden
  • The Immortal Rules
  • The Eternity Cure

Julie Otsuka

• When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Shigekuni

• TBD

Karen M Inouye

• The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

Karen Ishizuka

• TBD

Karen Nakamura

• TBD

Karen Tei Yamashita

• TBD

Karin Tanabe

• TBD

Kathleen Burkinshaw

• TBD

Katie Yamasaki

• Fish for Jimmy
• When the Cousins Came

Kazu Kibuishi

• Firelight (Amulet #7)
• The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1)

Kazuo Ishiguro

• TBD

Keith Yatsuhashi

• TBD

Ken Mochizuki

• Baseball Saved Us
• Beacon Hill Boys
• Heroes
• Those Who Helped Us

Ken Niimura

• Never Open It

Kenji C. Liu

• TBD

Kerri Sakamoto

• The Electrical Field

Kiku Hughes

• Displacement

Kim Moritsugu

• TBD

Kimiko Hahn

• Foreign Bodies

Kimiko Tobimatsu

• Kimiko Does Cancer

Kyo Maclear

• The Fog
• The Wish Tree

Kyoko Mori

• Barn Cat
• Shizuko’s Daughter
• The Dream of Water

Lane Hirabayashi

• TBD

Lawson Fusao Inada

• TBD

Leslie Shimotakahara

• TBD

Linda Austin & Yaeko Sugama Weldon

• Cherry Blossoms in Twilight

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

• TBD

Lynne Kutsukake

• TBD

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

• Love in the Library
• Squad

Margaret Dilloway

• TBD

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

• TBD

Mariko Nagai

• Body of Empire
• Dust of Eden
• Histories of Bodies
• Irradiated Cities
• Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Tamaki

• Roaming (with Jillian Tamaki)
• Skim (with Jillian Tamaki)
• This Place Kills Me (with Nicole Goux)

MariNaomi

• TBD

Mary Yukari Waters

• TBD

Masako Fukui

• When Blossoms Fall

Mia Ayumi Malhotra

• Isako Isako

Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

• Numamushi

Mine Okubo

• Citizen 13660

Misa Sugiura

• TBD

Moni Ritchie Hadley

• The Star Festival

Naoko Fujimoto

• Silver Seasons of Heartache

Naomi Hirahara

• Mas Arai
  • Summer of the Big Bachi
• Short Fiction
  • Baishakunin, Inc.
  • Nikkei Detective
  • The Nihongo Papers

Nina Matsumoto

• TBD

Nina Revoyr

• TBD

Paul Matsushima

• Thank You Very Mochi

R. Kikuo Johnson

• Night Fisher
• No One Else

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

• TBD

Rick Noguchi

• Flowers from Mariko

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

• Harmless Like You

Rumi Hara

• Nori
• The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories

Ruth Ohi

• Kenta and the Big Wave

Ruth Ozeki

• TBD

Ryka Aoki

• Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul

Sarah Kuhn

• Heroine Complex
• Shadow of the Batgirl

Scott Goto

• The Perfect Sword

Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson

• The Mochi Makers

Sho Yamagushiku

• Shima

Stacey T. Hayashi

• Journey of Heroes

Stan Sakai

• TBD

Stan Yogi

• Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (with Laura Atkins)

Stanley Todd Terasaki

• Ghosts for Breakfast

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

• TBD

Sunny Seki

• The Last Kappa of Old Japan
• Yuko-chan and the Daruma Doll

Takako Day

• TBD

Terry Watada

• Ten Thousand Views of Rain

Todd Shimoda

• TBD

Traci Chee

• TBD

Traci Kato-Kiriyama

• Navigating With(out) Instruments

Valynne Maetani

• TBD

Xen Sanders/Cole McCade

• TBD

Yasuo Sasaki

• Village Scene/Village Herd

Yoshiko Uchida

• Rinko Tsujimura
  • A Jar of Dreams
  • The Best Bad Thing
• Yuki Sakane
  • Journey to Topaz
  • Journey Home
• The Bracelet

Yuko Yamaguchi

• • Okorijizō