382 books
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422 voters
Internment Books
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as internment)
avg rating 4.05 — 315,383 ratings — published 2009
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as internment)
avg rating 4.42 — 52,891 ratings — published 2019
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as internment)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,462 ratings — published 1994
When the Emperor Was Divine (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as internment)
avg rating 3.81 — 30,723 ratings — published 2002
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as internment)
avg rating 3.71 — 64,088 ratings — published 2011
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as internment)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,031 ratings — published 1973
Displacement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as internment)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,433 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 4.00 — 434 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 4.08 — 708 ratings — published 2005
No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
by (shelved 6 times as internment)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,606 ratings — published 1956
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,790 ratings — published 2022
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,273 ratings — published 2021
Tallgrass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,967 ratings — published 2007
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,011 ratings — published 1993
Weedflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,920 ratings — published 2006
Nisei Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as internment)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,058 ratings — published 1979
Internment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.87 — 20,398 ratings — published 2019
This Time Will Be Different (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,105 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 — 2,587 ratings — published 2016
The Japanese Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.89 — 96,798 ratings — published 2015
The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.36 — 23,941 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 — 2,475 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 3.97 — 270 ratings — published 2013
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as internment)
avg rating 3.88 — 841 ratings — published 1982
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.50 — 745 ratings — published 2024
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.18 — 877 ratings — published 2021
A Place to Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,584 ratings — published 2019
The War Outside (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,084 ratings — published 2018
Dust of Eden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.07 — 929 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 — 894 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 — 907 ratings — published 1999
Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,917 ratings — published 1946
Silver Like Dust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,772 ratings — published 2012
Journey to Topaz (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,666 ratings — published 1971
Empire of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,586 ratings — published 1984
Obasan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,346 ratings — published 1981
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as internment)
avg rating 4.32 — 301 ratings — published 2000
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.41 — 108 ratings — published 2024
We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,239 ratings — published 2023
Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,550 ratings — published 2023
Those Who Helped Us: Assisting Japanese Americans During the War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 137 ratings — published
Stealing Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.98 — 995 ratings — published 2021
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.63 — 217 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 — 1,248 ratings — published 2019
Letters to Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 3.92 — 146 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 4.15 — 285 ratings — published 2019
Within These Lines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,616 ratings — published 2019
A Scarf for Keiko (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.27 — 983 ratings — published 2019
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as internment)
avg rating 4.39 — 641 ratings — published 2018
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 4.36 — 67 ratings — published 2015
“People quietly shuffle through the dust back to their Mercury Homes. Even though we are in an open-air camp, we breathe the recycled air of dread and anxiety. Like everyone else, I wonder about tomorrow. Hope. Fear. Anticipation.”
― Internment
― Internment
“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












