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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,126 ratings — published 2013
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,086 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.34 — 702,741 ratings — published 2017
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,266 ratings — published 1999
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.99 — 448,250 ratings — published 2019
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.35 — 48,087 ratings — published 2018
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.74 — 155,613 ratings — published 2017
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,027 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,931 ratings — published 2016
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,609 ratings — published 2010
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.97 — 719,860 ratings — published 1989
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,083 ratings — published 2011
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.75 — 170,514 ratings — published 2009
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.36 — 730,293 ratings — published 2020
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.22 — 652,892 ratings — published 2021
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,094 ratings — published 2007
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,823 ratings — published 2000
Solito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.47 — 91,050 ratings — published 2022
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,837 ratings — published 2017
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.16 — 40,554 ratings — published 2021
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,763 ratings — published 2017
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.35 — 61,118 ratings — published 2007
The Boston Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.83 — 90,399 ratings — published 2014
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 16 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,365 ratings — published 2020
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,310 ratings — published 2011
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,450 ratings — published 2019
Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.43 — 7,198 ratings — published 2018
A Place for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,135 ratings — published 2018
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,062 ratings — published 2003
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,601 ratings — published 2020
The Other Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.89 — 20,233 ratings — published 2019
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,709 ratings — published 2009
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,021 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.90 — 47,298 ratings — published 2014
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.72 — 251,015 ratings — published 2008
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.04 — 674,259 ratings — published 2002
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,666 ratings — published 2000
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,576 ratings — published 2003
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,362 ratings — published 2022
The Undocumented Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.36 — 28,954 ratings — published 2020
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,965 ratings — published 2009
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.92 — 166,075 ratings — published 2009
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.30 — 47,015 ratings — published 2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,101 ratings — published 2020
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 12 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,003 ratings — published 2017
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.19 — 217,397 ratings — published 2000
'Tis (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.74 — 67,614 ratings — published 1999
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.08 — 240,943 ratings — published 2022
All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as immigrant)
avg rating 4.47 — 68,895 ratings — published 2022
Infinite Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as immigrant)
avg rating 3.92 — 51,445 ratings — published 2021
“We arrived in New York as academic students with non-immigrant visas. Although we didn't see ourselves as immigrants, we had brought all our earthly possessions to America, along with our emotional past and personal histories.”
― Great Joys, Great Sorrows: An Immigrant’s Journey through Surgical Residency
― Great Joys, Great Sorrows: An Immigrant’s Journey through Surgical Residency
“Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent. Garlic mustard poisons the soil so that native species will die. Tamarisk uses up all the water. Foreign invaders like loosestrife, kudzu, and cheat grass have the colonizing habit of taking over others’ homes and growing without regard to limits. But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds. Plantain is so prevalent, so well integrated, that we think of it as native. It has earned the name bestowed by botanists for plants that have become our own. Plantain is not indigenous but “naturalized.” This is the same term we use for the foreign-born when they become citizens in our country.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
