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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,625 ratings — published 2003
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,826 ratings — published 1999
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 — 631,514 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,789 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,226 ratings — published 2013
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 410,824 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.23 — 604,015 ratings — published 2021
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 96,887 ratings — published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,500 ratings — published 1989
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.16 — 169,282 ratings — published 2024
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,046,718 ratings — published 2023
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,093 ratings — published 2020
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,553 ratings — published 2000
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.26 — 265,681 ratings — published 2019
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,138 ratings — published 2017
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.17 — 50,443 ratings — published 2016
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,063 ratings — published 2020
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.68 — 235,903 ratings — published 1984
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,169 ratings — published 2007
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,112 ratings — published 2005
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 479,184 ratings — published 2022
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,396 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.83 — 613,033 ratings — published 2014
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 — 84,557 ratings — published 2007
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,646 ratings — published 2013
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,229 ratings — published 2008
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.67 — 19,365 ratings — published 2022
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,855 ratings — published 2021
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 151,888 ratings — published 2017
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,820 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,089 ratings — published 1958
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.15 — 167,235 ratings — published 2021
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 111,954 ratings — published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,410 ratings — published 2017
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,113 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,994 ratings — published 1997
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,581 ratings — published 2022
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.49 — 76,991 ratings — published 2022
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,353 ratings — published 2020
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 38,851 ratings — published 2016
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,480 ratings — published 2018
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,734 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,646 ratings — published 1982
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,908 ratings — published 1976
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,241 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,506,605 ratings — published 2003
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,941 ratings — published 2022
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,207 ratings — published 2021
The Arsonists' City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,128 ratings — published 2021
The Other Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,526 ratings — published 2019
“The siege of Beirut brought with it all the ancient terrors of sieges -- city gates broken, libraries burned down, fire dropped on defenders. A truly medieval event recalling these sieges of Jerusalem in 1099 and Acre in 1189. This siege also was a metaphor of confrontation between East and West and a fascinating symbol of the clash of self-definitions between settler-colonialism and native resistance. It was a mirage from the medieval age that bespoke, as sieges then often did, the most dreadful catastrophe that could befall people: the destruction of their city and their subsequent wanderings in search of shelter to house their passions and the outward expression of their culture. To Palestinians everywhere, the siege of Beirut became the most monumental event in their modern history -- even more monumental than the dismemberment of, and exodus from, Palestine in 1948.
The Israelis tried everything during these siege. To starve the city. To bomb it to rubble. To terrorize its inhabitants with psychological warfare. To cut its water, medical, and food supplies.”
― Soul in Exile
The Israelis tried everything during these siege. To starve the city. To bomb it to rubble. To terrorize its inhabitants with psychological warfare. To cut its water, medical, and food supplies.”
― Soul in Exile
“Here’s to the security guards who maybe had a degree in another land. Here’s to the manicurist who had to leave her family to come here, painting the nails, scrubbing the feet of strangers. Here’s to the janitors who don’t understand English yet work hard despite it all. Here’s to the fast food workers who work hard to see their family smile. Here’s to the laundry man at the Marriott who told me with the sparkle in his eyes how he was an engineer in Peru. Here’s to the bus driver, the Turkish Sufi who almost danced when I quoted Rumi. Here’s to the harvesters who live in fear of being deported for coming here to open the road for their future generation. Here’s to the taxi drivers from Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and India who gossip amongst themselves. Here is to them waking up at 4am, calling home to hear the voices of their loved ones. Here is to their children, to the children who despite it all become artists, writers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, activists and rebels. Here’s to international money transfer. For never forgetting home. Here’s to their children who carry the heartbeats of their motherland and even in sleep, speak with pride about their fathers. Keep on.”
― Questions for Ada
― Questions for Ada
