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Immigrant Experience Books
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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,341 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,243 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,238 ratings — published 1999
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 715,445 ratings — published 1989
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,971 ratings — published 2016
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,201 ratings — published 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,748 ratings — published 2007
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.00 — 430,519 ratings — published 2019
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,590 ratings — published 2008
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,307 ratings — published 2011
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.75 — 165,880 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 664,640 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,816 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,869 ratings — published 2014
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 164,494 ratings — published 2009
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.72 — 249,878 ratings — published 2008
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,173 ratings — published 2003
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 711,510 ratings — published 2020
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,353 ratings — published 2000
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,199 ratings — published 2011
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,276 ratings — published 2017
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 630,065 ratings — published 2021
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.25 — 183,939 ratings — published 2019
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,187 ratings — published 2017
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.85 — 150,385 ratings — published 1918
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,313 ratings — published 1991
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.09 — 166,249 ratings — published 2020
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 434,675 ratings — published 2009
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.68 — 244,810 ratings — published 1984
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,600 ratings — published 2007
American Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,419 ratings — published 2017
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 47,017 ratings — published 2018
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,790 ratings — published 2006
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 113,574 ratings — published 2017
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,390 ratings — published 2017
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,328 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,564,018 ratings — published 2003
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,980 ratings — published 1995
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,264 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,594 ratings — published 2004
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,673 ratings — published 2021
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 75,160 ratings — published 2020
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,432 ratings — published 2018
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,316 ratings — published 2015
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 318,460 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,371 ratings — published 1997
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 137,082 ratings — published 1999
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,208 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.95 — 362,517 ratings — published 2016
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,698 ratings — published 2016
“Borders, though, are rarely as definite as they appear on maps. The longer you spend living around them, the less sense these kinds of simplistic divisions make. Frontiers are places where identities take on absurdly definite forms, in barbed wire fences and vigilante patrols. At the same time, they're places where boundaries between different cultures break down. Sicilian history is white, Christian and Western, certainly, but it has also been, and still is, black, Arab, Muslim among other things. Such ambiguities are present everywhere, but they are particularly visible on the shores of the Mediterranean. This is what makes the region so exciting. It's also what makes it difficult and, for some, uncomfortable.”
― The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
― The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
“I want you to be very successful. Remember, people like us cannot afford to fail "People like us"… immigrants, exiles, refugees, newcomers, outsiders… Too many words for a shared, recognizable sentiment that, no matter how often described, remains largely undefined. Children of uprooted parents are born into the memory tribe. Both their present and their future are forever shaped by their ancestral past, regardless of whether they have any knowledge of it. If they flourish and prosper, their achievements will be attributed to a whole community; and, in the same way, their failures will be charged up to something bigger and older than themselves, be it family, religion, or ethnicity. While the journey of life may be full of reversals of fortune, children from displaced families can never allow themselves to fall below the level at which their parents started it out.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
