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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as internment)
avg rating 4.05 — 320,351 ratings — published 2009
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as internment)
avg rating 4.42 — 57,550 ratings — published 2019
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as internment)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,141 ratings — published 1994
When the Emperor Was Divine (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as internment)
avg rating 3.81 — 32,037 ratings — published 2002
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as internment)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,844 ratings — published 1973
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as internment)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,000 ratings — published 2011
Displacement (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as internment)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,797 ratings — published 2020
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 444 ratings — published 2006
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as internment)
avg rating 4.09 — 736 ratings — published 2005
No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
by (shelved 6 times as internment)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,933 ratings — published 1956
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,926 ratings — published 2022
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,778 ratings — published 2021
Tallgrass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,349 ratings — published 2007
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,059 ratings — published 1993
Weedflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,980 ratings — published 2006
Nisei Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,082 ratings — published 1979
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 4.16 — 989 ratings — published 2021
Internment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.86 — 20,814 ratings — published 2019
This Time Will Be Different (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,128 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,636 ratings — published 2016
The Japanese Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.89 — 100,440 ratings — published 2015
The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.37 — 24,311 ratings — published 2009
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,533 ratings — published 2015
Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 281 ratings — published 2013
Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,021 ratings — published 1946
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.88 — 858 ratings — published 1982
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.44 — 138 ratings — published 2024
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.51 — 812 ratings — published 2024
Those Who Helped Us: Assisting Japanese Americans During the War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 149 ratings — published
A Place to Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,624 ratings — published 2019
The War Outside (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,471 ratings — published 2018
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.40 — 657 ratings — published 2018
Dust of Eden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.07 — 942 ratings — published 2014
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.19 — 912 ratings — published 2013
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 (My Name Is America)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.76 — 927 ratings — published 1999
Silver Like Dust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,820 ratings — published 2012
Journey to Topaz (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,716 ratings — published 1971
Empire of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,321 ratings — published 1984
Obasan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,548 ratings — published 1981
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.32 — 306 ratings — published 2000
We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,442 ratings — published 2023
Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,702 ratings — published 2023
Stealing Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,036 ratings — published 2021
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.63 — 219 ratings — published 2002
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,265 ratings — published 2019
Letters to Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.94 — 151 ratings — published 2017
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.16 — 295 ratings — published 2019
Within These Lines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,694 ratings — published 2019
A Scarf for Keiko (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.28 — 995 ratings — published 2019
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.35 — 71 ratings — published 2015
“Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment.”
― Peculiar Ground
― Peculiar Ground
“In the pages that follow I hope that readers similarly struggle to find their own balance within a history of injustice. Such pasts should be unsettling.”
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