Books and Boba

Books & Boba is a book club dedicated to books written by Asian and Asian American authors. We cover a wide range of genres including contemporary, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, nonfiction, thrillers, graphic novels, and memoirs.


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#225 – Author Chat w/ Rita Chang-Eppig

For this author chat, we sit down with Rita Chang-Eppig about her debut novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a historical fiction novel painting a portrait...

Introducing Ten Thousand Things: Book

One of the cool parts of being in podcasting is taking part in a community of like-minded creators, this is especially true for those of us in the Asian...

#224 – The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

On this episode we are discussing our May 2023 book club pick, The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh. A story about a Vietnamese family dealing with the...

From #PotluckPod Quarantined Comics – GENE LUEN YANG’s …American Born Chinese

To finish up APAHM, we’re highlighting another one of our fellow Asian American podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective. This time we’re dropping an episode of our fellow #PotluckPod...

#223 – May 2023 Book News

On this episode, we check out the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our APAHM 2023 edition of our mid-month check-in and Reera teaches Marvin...

#222 – Author Chat w/ Melissa de la Cruz

On this episode, we chat with Melissa de la Cruz, probably one of the most prolific Asian American authors in the industry, about her new YA thriller The Headmaster’s...

From #PotluckPod Asian Americana – Country Music for a Baan Nok Boy

This APAHM, we wanted to highlight some of our fellow Asian American podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective, so we’re dropping in an episode from our sister show, Asian...

#221 – Author Chat w/ Deepa Varadarajan

On this episode, we chat with debut author Deepa Varadarajan about her novel, Late Bloomers, about an Indian American family of two recent divorcees and their adult children who...

#220 – Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

On this episode, we discuss our April 2023 book club pick, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto. A murder mystery where super-auntie Vera Wong attempts...

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