Book Riot | 27.05.2026 17:10
As a follow-up to my recent post about Asian American historical fiction for AAPI Heritage Month in the U.S., I now want to focus on Pacific Island historical fiction. The Pacific Islands comprise three major ethnogeographic groups according to Britannica: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term does leave out several significant islands located in the Pacific Ocean, including Australia, and sometimes the term Oceania is used to include the area more broadly. These are the Pacific Islands as listed out by the AAPI Heritage Month website:
