## Queer East and South East Asian book recs

Read and loved all of these! Books listed: Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min, Cafe con Lychee by Emery Lee, Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee, Portrait ...Show more.

[Discotopia \| Diverse Books  
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• May 4 2025](https://discotopia.binderybooks.com/)

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### Recommendations
- **Face by Joma West**: An unsettling, Black Mirror-esque dystopian story.
- **In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu**: A bizarre bio-cyberpunk novella about a human connected to a biological surveillance system in a totalitarian city.
- **The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang**: Explores themes of gender and power through the story of twin children of a regent who can choose their gender.
- **Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xirin Jay Zhao**: A middle-grade fantasy featuring a queer Chinese-American teen.
- **Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender**: A YA novel featuring a Black trans boy navigating love and identity.

Wishing you all great reading!

Much love,  
Disco

### Additional Recommendations
- **30 by Clinton W. Waters**: A poignant exploration of love and loss set on the protagonist's 30th birthday.
- **Wild by Joma West**: A journey through definitions and experiences in a vivid future were stories can be plugged into and lived.

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### Additional Notes
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## Closing Thoughts
Are any of these on your TBR? #booktok #trr25 #trr #readathon #bookrecommendations

All the best in your reading adventures!