Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authors Amy Tan, from left, Ekow Eshun and Michael Connelly. (Michael Loccisano / Getty Images; Zeinab Batchelor; Katherine K.

So you haven't read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan? This book was the most popular depiction of the Chinese American experience and one of the first Blockbuster Hollywood Films with an all Asian cast!

Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday. Writer-curator Ekow Eshun is among the biography finalists for "The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men ...