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Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,089 books — 1,829 voters
Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
389 books — 312 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiPachinko by Min Jin LeeThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieDaughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
[ATY 2021] - Featuring an Immigrant
213 books — 170 voters
The Immigrant and the Golden Coin by Dorothy May MercerJust Like Us by Helen ThorpeLethal Standoff by DiAnn MillsMid Ocean by T. Rafael CiminoThe Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Novels about Undocumented Immigrants
50 books — 88 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Great Modern African Reads
91 books — 62 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Blue Collar Books
193 books — 60 voters

Goodbye, Tahrir Square by Zarmati ElioI Don't Want to Forget This by Paulina Lam EsparzaSolito by Javier ZamoraBeing Authentic by Morhaf Al AchkarThose We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon
Best Immigrant Books and Memoirs
30 books — 58 voters
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana ZapataRoomies by Christina LaurenRio Grande Wedding by Ruth WindAn Inconvenient Wife by Katy MadisonFar from Home by Lorelie Brown
Green Card: Marriage of Convenience Romance
41 books — 50 voters

Educated by Tara WestoverAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollThe Martian by Andy WeirThe Humans by Matt HaigProject Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A “Fish out of Water” or An Outsider
390 books — 49 voters
Heat of Paris by Peter BreyerI Don't Want to Forget This by Paulina Lam EsparzaWhen Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith KerrMartyr! by Kaveh AkbarThe Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Immigrants, Refugees, Asylees and Other Displacement
125 books — 34 voters

Tehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina NayeriEqual of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] by Kaoru Mori
Fictitious Iran
45 books — 25 voters
The Syrian Virgin by Zack LoveAnissa's Redemption by Zack LoveTrade Me by Courtney MilanThe Damned Balkans by John FarebrotherPlum Creek Bride by Lynna Banning
Romance Novels Capturing the Immigrant Experince
69 books — 22 voters

A Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaBad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle HernándezThe Line Becomes a River by Francisco CantúMigra! by Kelly Lytle HernándezThe Death and Life of Aida Hernandez by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
(Im)migration and the US-Mexico Border (nonfiction)
68 books — 22 voters
The Arrival by Shaun TanMartyr! by Kaveh AkbarExit West by Mohsin HamidMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book Riot 2025 #5 - Immigration / Refugees
41 books — 18 voters

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste NgThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanLast Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen ZiaThe Chinatown Trunk Mystery by Mary Ting Yi LuiRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
Asian American History
103 books — 15 voters
The Arrival by Shaun TanThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiMaus I by Art SpiegelmanA Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories by Will EisnerMigra Mouse by Lalo Alcaraz
Best Graphic Novels About the Immigrant Experience
18 books — 9 voters

Illegal by José Ángel N.My (Underground) American Dream by Julissa ArceThe Unenviable by David G. MirichThe Weight of Shadows by José OrduñaBeautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Undocumented (memoirs)
13 books — 8 voters
The False Men by Mhairead MacLeodRemember My Royalty by Hannah E. GriggsA Pistol in Greenyards by Mollie HunterSo Far from Skye by Judith O'NeillClear by Carys Davies
The Highland Clearances
15 books — 7 voters

Love and Vertigo by Hsu-Ming TeoThe Happiest Refugee by Anh DoRoom for a Stranger by Melanie ChengChai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari ChandranBeyond the Blue Mountains by Jean Plaidy
Australian Immigrant Lit
147 books — 6 voters
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie LeongThe Adventurous Summer by Mabel Esther AllanMortimer's Portrait on Glass by Joan AikenThe Diddakoi by Rumer GoddenCharley by Joan G. Robinson
Gypsy Caravan - Vardo - Romani Wagon
64 books — 5 voters

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiDriven to Distraction by Edward M. HallowellWar Child by Emmanuel JalThe Truths We Hold by Kamala HarrisThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Reading Our Community - 2020
5 books — 4 voters
Blue White Red by Alain MabanckouLe Ventre de l'Atlantique by Fatou Diome10,000 Miles With 10,000 Reasons by Nancy FrantzCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseMy Own Country by Abraham Verghese
africans about imigration
7 books — 3 voters

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriNot Quite Not White by Sharmila SenLanguage of the Wound is Love by Megha SoodFasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Desi Immigrant Experience
14 books — 3 voters
The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell by Joe LoyaOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorMy Bloody Life by Reymundo SánchezIt Calls You Back by Luis J. Rodríguez
Mexican-American Prison Memoir
31 books — 3 voters

They Dream in Gold by Mai SennaarGreat Joys, Great Sorrows by Michael M. MeguidThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorThe Refugees by Viet Thanh NguyenSlow Noodles by Chantha Nguon
Immigrant/2nd Generation Stories
34 books — 3 voters
Children of the River by Linda CrewHomesick by Jean FritzIn the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao LordListening for Lions by Gloria WhelanRed Sand Blue Sky by Cathy Applegate
Third Culture Kids and Multicultural Families (MG and YA appropriate)
93 books — 3 voters

Papa You're Crazy by William SaroyanThe Human Comedy by William SaroyanMy Name Is Aram by William SaroyanThe William Saroyan Reader by William SaroyanBest Stories of William Saroyan by William Saroyan
Saroyan's Best
26 books — 2 voters
Corações Sujos by Fernando MoraisOrientalism by Edward W. SaidNihonjin by Oscar Nakasato
Ser amarelo no Brasil
3 books — 2 voters

Povestea doamnei Murasaki by Liza DalbyJaponia, Viata si obiceiurile by Ioan TimușSingură pe Drumul Mătăsii by Sabina FatiInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezWayward Women by Jane Robinson
Thinking outwards
11 books — 1 voter
The Lip Reader by Michael Thal
Iranian Immigrant
1 book — 1 voter

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