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Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
201 books — 164 voters
Written in the Stars by Aisha SaeedA Time to Dance by Padma VenkatramanThe Love Match by Priyanka TaslimBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai HidierWhen Mimi Went Missing by Suja Sukumar
South Asians in Contemporary YA
175 books — 96 voters

The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph FasanoThe Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana TrigianiBrava, Valentine by Adriana TrigianiLucia, Lucia by Adriana TrigianiTable 21 by T. Rafael Cimino
Italian-American Fiction
51 books — 84 voters
The Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaKeeping Our Enemies Closer by Rachel WahlThe Liberal Record by Marcelo BrazziThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanFriendly Fascism by Bertram M. Gross
American Political Behavior
169 books — 38 voters

Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart LovelaceFamily Sabbatical by Carol Ryrie BrinkWhat Katy Did Next by Susan CoolidgeGood Wives by Louisa May AlcottThe Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
Americans Abroad in Juvenile Fiction
258 books — 33 voters
De la Captivité à liberté by Léonce JATCHELE BÂTON DU VOYAGEUR FATIGUÉ by Léonce JATCHEThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhen I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Appalachian memoirs
78 books — 30 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneSeabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganBacklash by Susan FaludiA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
American
800 books — 26 voters
The Storyteller, Or, the Hakawati by Rabih AlameddineA Map of Home by Randa JarrarWhere Jasmine Blooms by Holly S. WarahThe Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja KahfCrescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Arab Americans in Fiction
49 books — 25 voters

The Chinese in America by Iris Shun-Ru ChangAt America's Gates by Erika LeeOn Gold Mountain by Lisa SeeAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangAsian American Dreams by Helen Zia
Chinese American History (nonfiction)
175 books — 22 voters
The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo AnayaSouth to Freedom by Alice L. Baumgartner
Mexican-American Experience
264 books — 15 voters

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosCantora by Sylvia López-MedinaThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta AcostaBlubber Island by Guillermo Galvan
Mexican Americans in Fiction
48 books — 12 voters
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainEscape by Carolyn JessopWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. FeynmanSmall Steps by Peg KehretCook County ICU by Cory Franklin
The Best Modern American Memoirs
121 books — 10 voters

All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz KeilThe Storm Runner by J.C. CervantesFlirting with Fate by J.C. CervantesThe Lightning Queen by Laura ResauI Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Mexicans & Mexican-Americans in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
154 books — 10 voters
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon CreechPenny from Heaven by Jennifer L. HolmBecoming Joe DiMaggio by Maria TestaThe Schwa Was Here by Neal ShustermanThe Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Italian Americans in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
83 books — 7 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonaldPioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best American Memoirs of Life Before 1940
101 books — 7 voters
If Home Is a Place by K. Linda KiviCandles for the Defiant by Kaia GallagherQueer as Folk Tales by James PenhaHarper by Gunnar K. A. NjalssonForgive Me If I've Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Estonian diaspora in fiction
6 books — 5 voters

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