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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 — 287,271 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,086 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,167 ratings — published 1999
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 715,311 ratings — published 1989
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,964 ratings — published 2016
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,188 ratings — published 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,694 ratings — published 2007
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.00 — 430,095 ratings — published 2019
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,573 ratings — published 2008
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,282 ratings — published 2011
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.75 — 165,779 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 663,766 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,760 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,858 ratings — published 2014
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 164,451 ratings — published 2009
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.72 — 249,844 ratings — published 2008
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,162 ratings — published 2003
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 711,029 ratings — published 2020
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,287 ratings — published 2000
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,179 ratings — published 2011
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,269 ratings — published 2017
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.23 — 629,502 ratings — published 2021
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.25 — 183,810 ratings — published 2019
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,168 ratings — published 2017
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.85 — 150,321 ratings — published 1918
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,301 ratings — published 1991
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.09 — 166,178 ratings — published 2020
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 434,546 ratings — published 2009
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.68 — 244,588 ratings — published 1984
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,592 ratings — published 2007
American Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,412 ratings — published 2017
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 46,988 ratings — published 2018
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,784 ratings — published 2006
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 113,538 ratings — published 2017
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,382 ratings — published 2017
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,326 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,562,512 ratings — published 2003
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,974 ratings — published 1995
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,247 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,585 ratings — published 2004
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,667 ratings — published 2021
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 75,117 ratings — published 2020
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,429 ratings — published 2018
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,216 ratings — published 2015
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 318,408 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 — 90,348 ratings — published 1997
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 137,064 ratings — published 1999
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,189 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.95 — 362,416 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 — 17,690 ratings — published 2016
“He was an immigrant, and papa had told me a hundred times that we’d never have enough sympathy, enough respect for the uprooted who have had enough to suffer from their disorientation, without being added contempt or disdain.”
― Street of Riches
― Street of Riches
“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
