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Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
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Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1)
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Does My Head Look Big in This?
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Ten Things I Hate About Me
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Unterzakhn
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Ashes of Roses
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One Amazing Thing
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads Author)
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Refugee Boy
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Paper Wife
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Laila Ibrahim (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 25,232 ratings
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
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3.84 avg rating — 99,132 ratings
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The Distance Between Us
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Reyna Grande (Goodreads Author)
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Dominicana
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
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The Settlers (The Emigrants, #3)
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Fever
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Annie John
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The Fatal Shore
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The Midwife
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Everything I Never Told You
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
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Autobiography of Mother Jones
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Girl at War
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The Speech of Angels
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Sharon Maas (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Call It Sleep
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Sweetness in the Belly
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Camilla Gibb (Goodreads Author)
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A Step from Heaven
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Typical American
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Gish Jen (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #1)
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 18,966 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
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Pnin
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Forgotten Country
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Catherine Chung (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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The Hundred Dresses
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No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
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Every Day Is for the Thief
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Speak, Memory
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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The Leavers
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Lisa Ko (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 50,362 ratings
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
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Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 45,576 ratings
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So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
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One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,934,214 ratings
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A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
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Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
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Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Briar Rose
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 15,037 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,496,300 ratings
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Lost Children Archive
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Hopscotch
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All That I Am
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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The Education of Hyman Kaplan
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Siddhartha
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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
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Charlotte’s Web
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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Jack Tar (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Reluctant Mullah
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Sagheer Afzal (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Dead: A Ghost Story
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Mina Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Derivation Incognita: A Comprehensive Study into the Peopling of America
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Coming to Astoria
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3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Until the Robin Walks on Snow
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3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings
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To America With Profound Gratitude
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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I Love Yous Are for White People
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The Lion Seeker
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Keep Eyes Behind
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Beverlee Patton (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness
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3.95 avg rating — 73 ratings
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
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Before We Visit the Goddess
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3.77 avg rating — 7,039 ratings
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The Tides Between
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4.31 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Ungrateful Refugee
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In the Event of Contact
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Our Best Intentions
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Revolution: 80 Days
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Meridians: A journal from everywhere
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Sons and Other Flammable Objects
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3.62 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Up from Orchard Street
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A Good American
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Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
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Bread and Roses, Too
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
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Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
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The Palace of Illusions
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Absurdistan
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Gary Shteyngart (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 13,930 ratings
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Kind of Kin
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Super Sad True Love Story
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Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
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A Free Life
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No Return Address: A collection of poems
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Nabeel Philip Mohan (Contributor)
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
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Papa's Wife (The Franzons, #1)
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It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir
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Uprising
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Rule of the Bone
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Apr 15, 2011 10:03PM
Just an FYI. Since you've tagged this list with aliens, it's showing up under the Science Fiction > Aliens genre.
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My vote is for Tortilla Curtain. Here's a post about Tortilla Curtain's relevance to the current immigration reform debate: http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...
How are we defining "immigrant" here? I was surprised to see Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, since the protagonists were Japanese-Americans, born in the USA. It's an awesome book, but I am concerned about the political point of labeling the main characters exactly the way the US government did back then.Another one: Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease is NOT an immigrant story. I don't want to mess with the contributions if Jessica is still here and active, since she started it. But it should be recognized that not everyone who comes to the USA, UK, or other western countries prefers to live in the USA or other parts of the West, and in the case of Achebe's protagonist, he goes to England, gets his education, leaves to go back to Nigeria. Thousands if not more do this very thing every year. A person who lives in the UK,US or elsewhere for a limited time, and with a limited purpose, is not an immigrant, they are a visitor. This touches a personal chord for me, because I am married to a citizen of another country who lives in the USA, and well-intended people are constantly trying to hyphenate my spouse with "-American", and repeatedly we have to say, "Actually, no." There is a bias to the assumption that whoever sets foot on these golden shores must SURELY want to stay here forever.
Removed for not being about the immigrant experience/author spamming:The Girls on Rose Hill
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The Farther I Walk, the Closer I Get to Me b. Hong Mei
Hm. Bless Me, Ultima is on here, but it's most certainly not about immigrants or even immigration. Do people just assume that because it's about Spanish-speakers in New Mexico they immigrated there? They were there before it became part of the US...
Wow, there are sooo many books on this list that just do not belong by any stretch of the imagination. O.o
I understand why there are so many votes for Roots, but "immigrant" isn't the right descriptor there.
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