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The Refugees
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Mambo in Chinatown
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Beautiful Country
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A Dry White Season
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
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Family Life
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A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
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The Farming of Bones
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Vaclav & Lena
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
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When Stars Are Scattered
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Crescent
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
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Well-Behaved Indian Women
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Hello, America: A Refugee's Journey from Auschwitz to the New World
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Save Me a Seat
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Living My Life
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A Dream Called Home
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The Flower Drum Song
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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
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A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)
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4.26 avg rating — 123,131 ratings
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Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (American Girls: Kirsten, #1)
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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3.73 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 135,243 ratings
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China Boy
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Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land
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4.33 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Down to the Bone
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Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
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Kao Kalia Yang (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 8,489 ratings
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
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Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #3)
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The Pig Did It (Pig Trilogy, #1)
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2.91 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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The Infinite Plan
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 14,309 ratings
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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 646,691 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
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Infinite Country
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Patricia Engel (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 49,629 ratings
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A Good Indian Wife
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Ten Days that Shook the World
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Sea Prayer
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 60,025 ratings
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The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 40,397 ratings
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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Orphan Train Girl
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4.27 avg rating — 3,169 ratings
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Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words
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Snow Hunters
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
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Pomegranate Soup (Babylon Café, #1)
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A Place for Us
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Fatima Farheen Mirza (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 65,112 ratings
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Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island - In Their Own Words
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Under the Feet of Jesus
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The Glass Palace
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American Street
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A Single Man
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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Clay Walls
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The Lonely Londoners
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The Hungry Tide
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'Til the Well Runs Dry
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3.88 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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Living My Life, Vol. 2
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Living My Life, Vol. 1
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Picture Bride
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On Black Sisters Street
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Chika Unigwe (Goodreads Author)
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West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota
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3.67 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Gone Girl
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Amy Foster
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The Pink Suit
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A Person of Interest
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3.52 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
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Fresh Girl
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Flight Behaviour
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Arranged Marriage
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3.76 avg rating — 5,499 ratings
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Little Failure
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3.66 avg rating — 7,744 ratings
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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The Irish Americans: A History
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My Beautiful Launderette
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
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Beloved
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The Other Americans
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Other People's Houses
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Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust
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A Faraway Island (A Faraway Island #1)
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Brazil-Maru
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Give Me Shelter: Stories About Children Who Seek Asylum
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Wuthering Heights
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The Color Purple
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The King of Mulberry Street
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White Ivy
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Try Me
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Mountains of the Sea
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The Vision of Emma Blau
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Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman
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Hanging On To My Dreams: Bouncing Back From All Rejections
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Arnold Henry (Goodreads Author)
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Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century
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John Paul Godges (Goodreads Author)
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The Lemon Tree
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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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