Adult Book Lists: The Immigrant Experience: Biographies and Memoirs
[Printable book list]
Bernard Bailyn / 973.2 BAILYN
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Joseph Berger / 973.04924 BERGER
Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
Richard Blanco / B BLANCO
For All of Us, One Today: an Inaugural Poet's Journey
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: a Miami Childhood (also available in ebook
Annie Choi / B CHOI
Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters
Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra / 610.92 CHOPRA
Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
Peter M. Coan / 304.873 COAN
Toward a Better Life: America's New Immigrants in Their Own Words: From Ellis Island to the Present
Edwidge Danticat / B DANTICAT
Brother, I'm Dying
Jasmin Darznik / 305.48 DARZNIK
The Good Daughter: a Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
written and directed by David Grubin / DVD 304.873 DESTINAT
Destination America
Firoozeh Dumas / 973 DUMAS
Funny in Farsi Series
Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, At Home and Abroad
hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / DVD 973.0496 EXPLORIN
Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates (in three volumes)
hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / DVD 929.20973 FACES
Faces of America
Tom Gjelten / 305.8009755 GJELTEN
A Nation of Nations: a Great American Immigration Sory
Elena Gorokhova / B GOROKHOV
Russian Tattoo: a Memoir
Reyna Grande / B GRANDE
The Distance Between Us: a Memoir
Le Ly Hayslip / 959.704 HAYSLIP
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: a Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Marcella Hazan / B HAZAN
Amarcord - Marcella Remembers: the Remarkable Life Story of a Woman Who Started Out Teaching Science in a Small Town in Italy, But Ended Up Teaching America How to Cook Italian
Livia Bitton Jackson / 940.5318092 JACKSON
Hello, America
Joseph Kim / B KIM
Under the Same Sky: From Salvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Raimonda Kopelnitsky / 973.04924 KOPELNIT
No Words to Say Goodbye: A Young Jewish Woman's Journey from the Soviet Union into America - the Extraordinary Diaries of Raimonda Kopelnitsky
David Laskin / 940.48173 LASKIN
The Long Way Home: an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (also in large print
Leslie Li / B LI
Daughter of Heaven: a Memoir with Earthly Recipes
Oksana Marafioti / 305.891 MARAFIOT
American Gypsy
Mark Mathabane / B MATHABAN
Kaffir Boy in America: an Encounter with Apartheid
Frank McCourt / 371.10092 MCCOURT
Teacher Man (also in large print and audiobook)
Frank McCourt / B MCCOURT
Frank McCourt Series
Angela's Ashes (also in large print and DVD)
'Tis: a Memoir
Anchee Min / B MIN
The Cooked Seed: a Memoir (also available in ebook)
Azadeh Moaveni / 305.48891 MOAVENI
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Dan-el Padilla Peralta / 305.868 PADILLAP
Undocumented: a Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Caryl Phillips / 304.8 PHILLIPS
Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After
Esmeralda Santiago / B SANTIAGO
When I Was Puerto Rican
Lisa See / 929.2 SEE
On Gold Mountain: the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family)
Sichan Siv / B SIV
Golden Bones: an Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
Lac Su / B SU
I Love Yous Are for White People: a Memoir
Luke Waters / 363.2092 WATERS
NYPD Green: A Memoir