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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 — 283,685 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,942 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,181 ratings — published 1999
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 58,680 ratings — published 2010
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,886 ratings — published 2016
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,236 ratings — published 1989
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,451 ratings — published 2007
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 96,667 ratings — published 2008
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.01 — 403,591 ratings — published 2019
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.70 — 63,942 ratings — published 2011
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.74 — 159,425 ratings — published 2009
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.74 — 151,411 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,206 ratings — published 2014
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 621,992 ratings — published 2017
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,610 ratings — published 2009
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.72 — 248,461 ratings — published 2008
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.46 — 35,724 ratings — published 2003
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 683,663 ratings — published 2020
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 66,880 ratings — published 2011
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,713 ratings — published 2000
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.26 — 175,661 ratings — published 2019
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,710 ratings — published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,208 ratings — published 2017
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,471 ratings — published 1918
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 595,685 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.10 — 162,009 ratings — published 2020
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.33 — 426,198 ratings — published 2009
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.68 — 233,371 ratings — published 1984
American Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,149 ratings — published 2017
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.62 — 32,745 ratings — published 1991
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 59,923 ratings — published 2007
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 29 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,370 ratings — published 2018
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,526 ratings — published 2006
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 111,553 ratings — published 2017
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,079 ratings — published 2017
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,060 ratings — published 2005
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,478 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,486,876 ratings — published 2003
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,508 ratings — published 1995
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,787 ratings — published 2020
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,168 ratings — published 2018
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,525 ratings — published 2021
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,852 ratings — published 2004
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 314,973 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 4.20 — 89,081 ratings — published 1997
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 136,284 ratings — published 1999
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.41 — 34,412 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.95 — 358,098 ratings — published 2016
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.01 — 137,579 ratings — published 2015
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,069 ratings — published 2016
“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for the first half of their lives. This usually tips the other way, but before we're taught anything, we're taught to hide.”
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
