The Greatest Books of All Time on Immigration

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
10939 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez 2017 American English
11082 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11082 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11253 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11253 In My Mother's House Kim Chernin 1983 American English
11452 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11452 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 American English
11650 Yo Yo Boing! Giannina Braschi 1998 American Spanish
11661 The Patriarch David Nasaw 2012 American English
11661 China Men Maxine Hong Kingston 1980 American English
11661 Bronx Primitive Kate Simon 1982 British English
11661 The House Of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 2018 American English
11661 Patriot Number One Lauren Hilgers 2018 Unknown English
11811 Clay Walls Kim Ronyoung 1987 Korean-American English
11847 Them Francine du Plessix Gray 2005 French English
11859 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11939 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael I. Pupin 1923 American English
12083 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12141 Drown Junot Diaz 1996 American English
12187 American Street Ibi Zoboi 2017 American English
12258 Disappearing Moon Cafe Sky Lee 1990 Canadian English
12258 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
12258 Silent Dancing Judith Ortiz Cofer 1990 American English
12250 Almost A Woman Esmeralda Santiago 1998 American English
12290 All Russians Love Birch Trees Olga Grjasnowa 2012 German German
12514 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12514 Typical American Gish Jen 1991 American English
12587 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu 2007 American English
12656 The Barbary Coast Herbert Asbury 2009 American English
12833 Talking To High Monks In The Snow Lydia Minatoya 1992 American English
13267 Bone Fae Myenne Ng 1993 American English
13552 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 2013 American English
13560 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman 1997 American English
13567 Butterfly Boy Rigoberto González 2006 American English
13772 The Sunken Cathedral Kate Walbert 2015 American English
13818 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13886 Into The Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea 2009 American English
13941 The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker 2013 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
14011 Dirt And Disease Naomi Rogers 1992 American English
14025 My New American Life Francine Prose 2011 American English
14025 Pigeon English Stephen Kelman 2011 British English
14132 Brown Girl, Brownstones Paule Marshall 1959 American English
14138 On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu 2021 American English
14155 Mulberry And Peach Hualing Nieh 1976 Chinese Chinese
14173 Wife Bharati Mukherjee 1975 Indian English
14232 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
14232 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
14232 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
14232 Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan 2000 American English
14334 Beyond Smoke And Mirrors Douglas S. Massey 2002 American English
14347 In America Susan Sontag 2000 American English
14367 A History Of The American People Woodrow Wilson 1902 American English
14622 The Promised Land Mary Antin 1912 American English
14625 Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon 1913 French French
14851 City Of The Queen Shin Shu-ching 1994 Chinese Chinese
14856 All Of A Kind Family Sydney Taylor 1951 American English
14897 The Harp In The South Ruth Park 1948 Australian English
14984 Lucy Jamaica Kincaid 1990 Antiguan English
14984 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
14984 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14984 Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat 2019 Haitian English
14984 Away Jane Urquhart 1993 Canadian English
14984 Daughter Of Fortune Isabel Allende 1999 Chilean Spanish
14984 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14984 How To Read The Air Dinaw Mengestu 2010 American English
14984 Natasha And Other Stories David Bezmozgis 2004 Canadian English
14984 My Name Is Yoon Helen Recorvits 2003 American English
14984 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
15585 Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi 2013 American English
15675 Children Of Loneliness Anzia Yezierska 1923 American English
15677 Lummox Fannie Hurst 1923 American English
15682 Places Where I’ve Done Time William Saroyan American English
15729 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15808 The Family Nina Fedorova 1940 Unknown English
15902 A Walker in the City Alfred Kazin 1951 American English
15902 Christ In Concrete Pietro di Donato 1939 American English
15902 America Is In The Heart Carlos Bulosan 1946 Filipino English
16532 The Fortunate Pilgrim Mario Puzo 1965 American English
17131 Fleshmarket Close Ian Rankin 2004 Scottish English
17131 The Destiny Waltz Gerda Charles 1968 British English
17131 A History of the United States Edward Channing 1905 American English
17131 The Atlantic Migration Marcus Lee Hansen 1940 American English
17131 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin 1951 American English
17131 This Mortal Boy Fiona Kidman 2018 New Zealander English
17131 As The Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong 2009 New Zealander English
17131 Front Desk Kelly Yang 2018 American English
17131 Dreamers Yuyi Morales 2018 Mexican English
17131 When I Lived In Modern Times Linda Grant 2000 British English
17131 The Ethnic Project Vilna Bashi Treitler 2013 American English
17131 My Life Golda Meir 1975 Israeli English
17131 Spring Ali Smith 2019 British English
17131 A Romantic Education Patricia Hampl 1981 American English
17131 World Of Our Fathers Irving Howe 1976 American English
17131 Redburn Herman Melville 1849 American English
17131 A Hazard Of New Fortunes William Dean Howells 1890 American English
17131 Summer In Williamsburg Daniel Fuchs 1934 American English
17131 Umbertina Helen Barolini 1979 Umbertina English
17131 Paper Fish Tina de Rosa 1980 American English
17131 The Line Becomes A River Francisco Cantú 2018 American English
17131 Mistress Of Spices Chitra Divakaruni 1997 American English
17131 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 2020 American English
17131 In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord 1984 American English
17131 The Bride Test Helen Hoang 2019 American English
17131 The Monk Of Mokha Dave Eggers 2018 American English
17131 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
17131 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17131 The Camp Of The Saints Jean Raspail 1975 French French
17131 The Amazing Absorbing Boy Rabindranath Maharaj 2010 Canadian English
17131 The Family Chao Lan Samantha Chang 2022 American English
17131 They're A Wierd Mob Nino Culotta 1957 Australian English
17131 Parachute Kids Betty C. Tang 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Republic Of Dreams Nélida Piñon 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
17131 The Saviour Of Lasnamäe Mari Saat 2009 Estonian Estonian
17131 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
17131 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17131 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17131 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17131 Grandfather’s Journey Allen Say 1993 American English
17131 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English