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Yu and Me Books

Bookstore
@yuandmebooks
The first queer Asian American NYC based bookstore 📚 / bar 🍷/ cafe ☕️ Hours: Mon-Wed, Sun: 11AM-7PM Thu-Sat: 11AM-11PM No DM’s! ❌
  • eCommerce/DTC
  • Following 1.5K
  • Followers 58.8K
  • Engagement 1.7%
  • Avg comments 21

About Yu and Me Books

Yu and Me Books (@yuandmebooks) is a Bookstore creator on Instagram, also filed under eCommerce/DTC. The account has 58,754 followers and 434 published posts. Recent posts average 831 likes and 21 comments, an engagement rate of 1.7%.

With 58.8K followers, Yu and Me Books is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 1,489 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 39 followers per account Yu and Me Books follows. Yu and Me Books carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Yu and Me Books under Bookstore, with eCommerce/DTC as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Yu and Me Books runs to 18 words across 6 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Yu and Me Books dates from December 2025.

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434 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Yu and Me Books, 5 are videos, 4 are carousels and 1 is a single image. No single format accounts for most of them. 434 published posts give Yu and Me Books a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 135 followers for each post published. Yu and Me Books also keeps 8 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 67 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include book, katie, kitamura, reading and club.

Quit horsing around and come check out new items that just landed in the store for Lunar New Year, including:

🐎 Not one, but TWO Year of the Horse Y&M postcards
🐎 Red envelopes 🧧 in four different designs from
🐎 LNY-themed books for the little ones in your life

Envelopes and books are available in-store only but postcards are available for purchase online on our website!

Happy new year! 🏮
Our book club pick for February is INTIMACIES by Katie Kitamura!

No registration required and option to purchase book for PICK UP ONLY in our link in bio (under book clubs)!

Date: February 6
Time: 7-9PM
Host:
Book: Intimacies by
disposables from the birthday party 🎈

thank you for your support and love the last four years ❣️
Upcoming events at Yu & Me Books in January:

Jan. 8, 7-8PM: Lactose Intolerant Reading hosted by Ruth Minah Buchwald featuring readings from writers Alejandro Heredia, Julie Ae Kim, M Lin, and Robert Lopez. Sponsored by AAWW.

Jan. 18, 11:30AM-12:30PM: Meet & Greet with Sylvia Chen for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY.

Jan. 23, 8-9PM: No-Pen Mic, hosted by Ed Lin. Sign-ups start at 7:30PM.

Jan. 27, 7-8PM: Book Launch for A BEAST SLINKS TOWARDS BEIJING by Alice Evelyn Yang in convo with Sally Wen Mao.

Jan. 31, 7-8PM: Doing the Math - Straightforward Personal Finance in a Topsy Turvy World with Chitra Marti.

RSVP/ reserve a book at the link in bio or on our website!
and discuss their favorite 2025 book club reads!

Celebrating 3 years of Yu Up? Book Club! 🫶 the top picks are:

Rejection by
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Still Born by (Translated by Rosalind Harvey)

We will be back in 2026 for book club on February 6 at 7PM reading Intimacies by Katie Kitamura!
Order a signed and personalized copy of The Midnight Taxi at an amazing queer, Asian American indie bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown! 🔗
Yu & Me Books Staff Top 3 Books of 2025:

Wes 🤠
-To Save and Destroy by Viet Thanh Nguyen
-An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park
-For the Love of Kewpie by Elyse Inamine and Jessie YuChen

Theresa 🦫
-Goodbye, My Princess by Fei Wo Si Cun tr. Tianshu
-I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan tr. Jack Hargreaves
-Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa tr. Stephen Snyder

Tyrinne 🎀
-But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
-The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
-The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley

Mags 💌
-Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis
-The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
-Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang

Chitra 🎭
-The Korean Vegan: Homemade by Joanne Lee Molinaro
-The Choi of Cooking by Roy Choi
-Yatra by Rohit Ghai

Anders🎄
-Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera tr. Lisa Dillman
-Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
-Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt

CJ ☎️
-Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki tr. Helen O'Horan
-Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector tr. Alison Entrekin
-Audition by Katie Kitamura

Chloe 🎱
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón tr. Lucia Graves
-An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector tr. Stefan Tobler
-Strange Houses by Uketsu tr. Jim Rion

Lucy 🍑
-Dream Work by Mary Oliver
-They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
-Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
If you pre-order THE MOON WITHOUT STARS from YU & ME BOOKS, I will sign and customize your copy 💛📘 OUT JAN 13, 2026!!!
EVERYONE! HOT! POT! 🥘

Everyone Hot Pot comes out January 27th! Signed & personalized copies are NOW AVAILABLE to preorder through!

If you preorder this book, you can fill out the form in link in bio for her Chili Crisp Snack Mix recipe and Fly By Jing’s Mini Chili Crisp Triple Threat! 🌶️

Preorder link in bio!
Yu & Me Wrapped 2025 📚 Thank you for reading with us this year!

We ran out of tags❣️

Yu and Me Books's engagement

Yu and Me Books's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.7%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 59 followers. An average post collects 831 likes and 21 comments, close to 40 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

1.7%

Avg likes
831
Avg comments
21
Interactions : followers
1 : 59

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Who is Yu and Me Books?

Yu and Me Books (@yuandmebooks) is a Bookstore creator on Instagram, also filed under eCommerce/DTC. Yu and Me Books carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Yu and Me Books runs to 18 words across 6 lines.

How many followers does Yu and Me Books have?

Yu and Me Books has 58,754 followers on Instagram (58.8K). Set against 1,489 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 39 followers per account Yu and Me Books follows. 434 published posts give Yu and Me Books a moderate archive on Instagram.

What is Yu and Me Books's engagement rate?

Yu and Me Books's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.7%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 59 followers. An average post collects 831 likes and 21 comments, close to 40 likes for each comment.

What does Yu and Me Books post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Yu and Me Books under Bookstore, with eCommerce/DTC as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Yu and Me Books, 5 are videos, 4 are carousels and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Yu and Me Books repeatedly use the words book, katie, kitamura, reading and club. Yu and Me Books writes those captions mainly in English. Yu and Me Books keeps 8 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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Yu and Me Books's contact details are not published on Flinque's public profile. The Instagram bio links to 1 external site, and a free Flinque account opens that link. The account is registered as an Instagram business account. Brands with a free Flinque account can shortlist Yu and Me Books and use Flinque's outreach tools wherever a contact route is on file.

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