Events at Yu & Me Books
July 25, 2025 at 8:00PM
July No/Pen Mic!
Sign ups from 7:30PM. 5-minute time slots. All performers welcome! Hosted by Ed Lin.
July 27, 2025, 1PM to 3PM
Bar Takeover | Hawa Matcha
Get your matcha on with Hawa Matcha at Yu & Me Books! Offering specialty matcha and hojicha drinks and tins for a limited time on Sunday, July 27, 2025 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM.
Come and meet your matcha~
July 29, 2025 at 7:00PM
Author Panel | Complex Family Dynamics
Join three of our favorite authors, Stephanie Foo (What My Bones Know), Cathy Linh Che (Becoming Ghost), and Jennifer Hope Choi (The Wanderer's Curse) as they discuss their craft and relationship with complex parenthood.
August 9, 2025 at 8:00PM
Listening Party | Vicki Huang
Join us for an intimate listening session with Taiwanese-American musician, DJ and vinyl storyteller Vicki Huang and Year of the Tiger Records' founder Deb Oh, as they share stories from their personal vinyl journeys — from rare record finds to curating sonic archives rooted in heritage, memory, and place.
August 10, 2025 at 1:00PM to 4:00PM
Pop Up | Inner Child @ Yu & Me Books
Inner Child brings happiness into people's lives through whimsical and joyful home decor and accessories.
Designed in New York City since 2024, their textiles and products are handmade, hand-loomed, or hand-printed by their skilled artisan partners around the world.
Come browse their selection of home decor and accessories at Yu & Me Books for this special pop up event!
August 12, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Launch | Women, Seated translated by Jeremy Tiang
In the pressure-cooker political environment of China, the fates of even the most powerful families can reverse overnight. When the family becomes the subject of a government investigation, their fortunes crumble, and the nanny is left to make a series of life-changing choices. How far will she go to claim her due?
August 13, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Talk | The L.O.V.E Club by Lio Min
From the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby, an immersive novel following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend
August 14, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Talk | Planetaria by Monica Ong
Rewriting the sky from a female perspective, Monica Ong invites readers into the intimate cosmology ofPlanetaria, utilizing the visual language of astronomy to explore the precarious territories of motherhood, women in science, and diaspora identity.
August 16, 2025 at 8:00PM
Soju wanna... Mingles Event!
Join us for our Soju Wanna... mingles event on Saturday, August 16 from 8PM to 10PM! There'll be book trivia, soju cocktails from Wild Mannered for sale, and great conversation. Meet-cute your soulmate, your new BFF, a bookclub buddy, a nemesis...? the options are endless.
August 22, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Talk | Where are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou
From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. In these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling.
August 28, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Talk | Teo's Durumi by Elaine U. Cho
From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. In these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling.
August 29, 2025 at 8:00PM
August No/Pen Mic!
Sign ups start from 7:30PM. 5-minute time slots. All performers welcome! Hosted by Ed Lin
September 2, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Launch | Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
September 4, 2025 at 6:30PM
Book Talk | An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park
The Korea Society, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor. A deadpan, wildly imaginative collection of stories that slices clean through the mundanity and absurdity of modern life, An Oral History of Atlantis is the newest collection of short stories from Ed Park.
September 14, 2025 at 2:00PM
Book Launch | The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli
Breathtaking suspense, unforgettable characters, and a pinch of magic combine in the dual stories of two young people—one in 731 China, and one in 1931 Chinatown—on perilous journeys to save their families. An instant classic from the beloved and bestselling author of the Vanderbeekers series.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00PM
Book Launch | Local Heavens by KM Fajardo
A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare.
A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, Local Heavens examines the guardrails of morality . . . and the price of desire.