October is Filipino American History Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Filipino American History Month for more books to feature!)
Nonfiction & Hybrid Works
Traceable Relation by Kimberly Alidio
Fonograf Editions | September 16, 2025
Distributor: NYU Press
ISBN: 978-1-964499-42-0
This collection of linked essays and poems conveys Alidio’s “practice within a lineage of aesthetic and practical sensibilities conveyed in the personal effects of her late father and the concrete tasks of communal mourning.”
Burrow Press | July 16, 2024
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-941681-30-5
A “literary-architectural hybrid project,” this book “sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the forces of colonialism and labor migration.”
Wendy’s Subway | March 31, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-9-0
This debut memoir “follows the author’s psychogeographic journey from Los Angeles to Pangasinan to Mexico City after his departure from the United States, where he lived undocumented for twenty-six years.”
Poetry
Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781949487350
In this poetry collection, “the beauty and comedy of daily life becomes a provocation into nonlinearity, sexuality, family history, and multiracial selfhood.”
Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan
Sarabande Books | July 30, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
ISBN: 9781956046298
This coming-of-age collection “details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as ‘Biddle City.’”
My Love Is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate
Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9781946604347
In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry “tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship,” the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.”
Line Affairs by Lawdenmarc Decamora
Fernwood Press | July 17, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 978-1-59498-231-6
This poetry collection “moves between the Philippines and elsewhere, between history’s inheritances and the urgencies of the present.”
Karaoke at the End of the World by Genevieve DeGuzman
JackLeg Press | March 16, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 978-1956907247
DeGuzman’s poetry collection “takes readers on an intergalactic journey through the multiverse.”
Caulbearer by Luisa A. Igloria
Black Lawrence Press | August 20, 2024
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9781625570789
Igloria’s collection weaves “poems exploring the veiled intervals of transition experienced by those in the diaspora—or by anyone who has felt a severing from their origins.”
Beyond the Galleons by Isabel Cristina Legarda
Yellow Arrow Publishing | April 9, 2024
Distributor: IngramSpark
ISBN: 9798988317616
This collection is “a meditation on Filipino experiences of colonization, ancestral connection, alienation, and the ghosts that haunt people living in geographic or psychological diasporas.”
American Inmate: The Album by Justin Rovillos Monson
Haymarket Books | March 12, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
ISBN: 9781642599732
Monson’s debut collection “subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature.”
Baobab Press | April 8, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781936097562
The speaker in this poetry collection “seems to ask, ‘Why were we born? How do we live with the circumstances of our birth, both historically and culturally?’”
Fiction
Tales from Manila Ave. by Patrick Joseph Caoile
Sundress Publications | November 11, 2025
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781951979843
In Caoile’s debut short fiction collection, “tenants gather to swap meals and stories, workers strive to prove their worth, sons and daughters revisit their relationships with faith, patriotism, and their own parents.”
A Professional Lola by E. P. Tuazon
Red Hen Press | July 30, 2024
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781636281186
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, this collection blends “literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and identity.”
Residents of the Deep by Marianne Villanueva
Unsolicited Press | August 19, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-956692-93-8
According to Luis H. Francia, in these short stories “we meet fantastical beings—by turns charming and nightmarish—who, when examined unsparingly, turn out to be versions of ourselves.”
