Below is a list of books by Nikkei authors released in 2020.

I have only included books originally written in English; however, I may add books translated into English if both the original author and the translator are Japanese/Nikkei.

Note: Inclusion on this list does not equal endorsement by me.

January

• This Light Between Us – Andrew Fukuda (1.7.20)
• Kona Winds – Scott Kikkawa (1.16.20)
• Cast in Wisdom – Michelle Sagara (1.28.20)
• Seven Deadly Shadows – Valynne Maetani & Courtney Alameda (1.28.20)

February

• Scammed – Kristen Simmons (2.4.20)

March

• Foreign Bodies – Kimiko Hahn (3.3.20)
• The Book of Kane and Margaret – Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi (3.3.20)
• Harley in the Sky – Akemi Dawn Bowman (3.10.20)
• The Deep – Alma Katsu (3.10.20)
• We Hereby Refuse – Tamiko Nimura, Frank Abe, et al. (3.10.20 – publication date moved to 2021)
• Night of the Dragon – Julie Kagawa (3.31.20)

April

• A Hundred Suns – Karin Tanabe (4.7.20)
• American Harvest – Marie Mutsuki Mockett (4.7.20)
• Starling Days – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (4.7.20)
• Usagi Yojimbo: Bunraku and Other Stories – Stan Sakai (4.21.20)

May

• Animal Friends to Sew – Sanae Ishida (5.5.20)
• Keep It Together, Keiko Carter – Debbi Michiko Florence (5.5.20)
• Sansei and Sensibility – Karen Tei Yamashita (5.5.20)
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea – Maggie Tokuda-Hall (5.5.20)

June

• The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa – Sawako Nakayasu, trans. (6.16.20 – appears to be a new edition of a book originally published in 2015)
• Gurple and Preen – Linda Sue Park & Debbie Ridpath Ohi (6.23.20)
• Just Like That – Cole McCade (6.30.20)

July

• Haunted Heroine – Sarah Kuhn (7.7.20)
• The Color of Air – Gail Tsukiyama (7.7.20)

August

• Black Power Afterlives – Diane Fujino, ed. (8.4.20)
• Displacement – Kiku Hughes (8.4.20)
• Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch – Julie Abe (8.4.20)
• Set Fire to the Gods – Kristen Simmons & Sara Raasch (8.4.20)
• Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan – Mire Koikari (8.20.20)

September

• We Are Not Free – Traci Chee (9.1.20)
• Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami – David Karashima (9.1.20)
• A World Between – Emily Hashimoto (9.15.20)
• Everything Naomi Loved – Katie Yamasaki & Ian Lendler (9.15.20)
• Our Little Kitchen – Jillian Tamaki (9.22.20)
• ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines – Sesshu Foster & Arturo Romo (9.29.20 – publication date moved to 2021)
• Saucy – Cynthia Kadohata (9.29.20)

October

• The Emperor’s Wolves – Michelle Sagara (10.13.20)

November

December

• Nisei Radicals – Diane Fujino (12.31.20)