March 2026 Book News

For our mid-month book news check in for March 2026, we catch up on the latest Asian American publishing announcements as well as check in on the ongoing fight against book bans:

• The Carlton Girls: Casey and the Cruel Thief by Julie Abe
• The Goodfolke Family by Roshani Chokshi
• P.S. Are We Friends Now? by John Schu and Jasmine Warga
• My Neighbor Yokai by noho
• Fall, in Love by Mia Kayla
• The Gravedigger's Apprentice by Linda Cheng
• Seeking Wonderful by Susan Yoon; illust. Veronica Mang
• We Are the Light: A Story of Diwali by Rajani LaRocca; illust. Sayan Mukherjee
• Home Is Waiting to Be Found by Tina Athaide; ilust. Vũ Thủy Ngọc Hà
• Matcha & Matches by Cara Tanamachi
• Tea Leaves and Fate Strings by C.B. Lee
• The Red Thread by Laura G. Lee
• Scream, Queen! by Sujin Witherspoon

Book news mentioned on this episode:

• Lee & Low postpones their quadrennial Diversity Baseline Survey in order to concentrate on fighting book bans

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Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC

NAATCO returns to The Public with their production of Shakespeare's trilogy, HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS, adapted and directed by Stephen Brown-Fried. Condensed into two parts and performed in rep, experience this saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses.

Henry VI - The Public