Adult Book Lists: The Immigrant Experience: Coming to America in Fiction

[Printable book list]

Diana Abu-Jaber / FIC ABUJABER
Arabian Jazz

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / FIC ADICHIE
Americanah (also in large print and ebook)
The Thing Around Your Neck

Isabel Allende / FIC ALLENDE
Daughter of Fortune (also in audiobook)

Mitch Albom / FIC ALBOM
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (also in large print, audiobook, and ebook)

Julia Alvarez / FIC ALVAREZ
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

T. Coraghessan Boyle / FIC BOYLE
The Tortilla Curtain

Alan Brennert / FIC BRENNERT
Honolulu

NoViolet Bulawayo / FIC BULAWAYO
We Need New Names (also in ebook)

Willa Cather / FIC CATHER
Great Plains Trilogy
O Pioneers! (also in large print, ebook, and DVD)
The Song of the Lark (also in audiobook)
My Ántonia (also in audiobook and ebook)

Michael Chabon / FIC CHABON
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (also in audiobook)

Teju Cole / FIC COLE
Open City

Junot Díaz / FIC DIAZ
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (also in large print and audiobook)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / FIC DIVAKARU
The Mistress of Spices (also on DVD)

Andre Dubus / FIC DUBUS
House of Sand and Fog (also in large print and DVD)

Dave Eggers / FIC EGGERS
What is the What: the Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

Jeffrey Eugenides / FIC EUGENIDE
Middlesex (also in large print)

Laura Fitzgerald / FIC FITZGERA
Veil of Roses Series
Veil of Roses
Dreaming in English

Kathryn Forbes / FIC FORBES
Mama's Bank Account

Nell Freudenberger / FIC FREUDENB
The Newlyweds (also in audiobook)

Moshin Hamid / FIC HAMID
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (also in audiobook and DVD)

Oscar Hijuelos / FIC HIJUELOS
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Khalid Hosseini / FIC HOSSEINI
The Kite Runner (also in audiobook and DVD)

Gish Jen / FIC JEN
The Love Wife
Mona in the Promised Land

Jean Kwok / FIC KWOK
Girl in Translation (also in audiobook)

Jhumpa Lahiri / FIC LAHIRI
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories (also in audiobook)
The Namesake (also in large print and DVD)

Chang-ree Lee / FIC LEE
Native Speaker

Atticus Lish / FIC LISH
Preparation for the Next Life

Bernard Malamud / FIC MALAMUD
The Assistant

Paule Marshall / FIC MARSHALL
Brown Girl, Brownstones

Dinaw Mengestu / FIC MENGESTU
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Joyce Carol Oates / FIC OATES
The Gravedigger's Daughter

Francine Prose / FIC PROSE
My New American Life

Annie Proulx / FIC PROULX
Accordion Crimes (also in large print)

Henry Roth / FIC ROTH
Call It Sleep

O. E. Rølvaag / FIC ROLVAAG
Giants in the Earth
The Third Life of Per Smevik

Lisa See / FIC SEE
May and Pearl Series
Shanghai Girls (also in large print)
Dreams of Joy (also in large print and audiobook)

Upton Sinclair / FIC SINCLAIR
The Jungle (also in audiobook and ebook)

Marivi Soliven / FIC SOLIVEN
The Mango Bride

Amy Tan / FIC TAN
The Joy Luck Club (also in large print and audiobook)
The Kitchen God's Wife (also in large print and audiobook)

Cindy Thomson / FIC THOMSON
Grace's Pictures

Chika Unigwe / FIC UNIGWE
On Black Sisters' Street