The Greatest Books of All Time on Migration

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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
17173 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin 1951 American English
17173 Voyagers to the West Bernard Bailyn 1986 American English
17173 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17173 Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff 2011 American English
17173 In The Light Of What We Know Zia Haider Rahman 2014 British English
17173 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17173 Empireland Sathnam Sanghera 2021 British English
17173 Black And British David Olusoga 2016 British English
17173 South To America Imani Perry 2022 American English
17173 Cuba Ada Ferrer 2021 American English
17173 The Best Of Albert Wendt’s Short Stories Albert Wendt 1999 New Zealand English
17173 Storia Del Dove Tommaso Maccacaro, Claudio M. Tartari 2017 Italian Unknown
17173 Frontiers Noel Mostert 1992 South African English
17173 And My Share Of The Horizon Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh Tunisian Unknown
17173 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17173 Wandering Wings Jawad Al-Sidawi Unknown Unknown
17173 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17173 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17173 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17173 American Dirt Jeanine Cummins 2020 American English
17173 Alaska James A. Michener 1988 American English
17173 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17173 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17173 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17173 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17173 A History Of South Africa Frank Welsh 1998 Unknown English
17173 Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay 2011 American English
17173 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17173 The Gullet Clinton Palanca Philippine English
17173 Stork Mountain Miroslav Penkov 2016 Bulgarian English
17173 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
16980 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17173 In The Country Mia Alvar 2015 Unknown English
17173 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17173 I Was Called To Dixie Andrew Karl Larson 1961 Unknown English
17173 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17173 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17173 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17173 Yellow Book Amitava Kumar 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Afrikaners John Fisher 1969 Unknown English
17173 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17173 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17173 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17173 Bounty Lands William Ellis 1981 Unknown English
17173 Mobility Lydia Kiesling 2023 American English
17173 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17173 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17173 This Country Navied Mahdavian 2023 Unknown English
17173 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17173 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 American English
17173 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17173 Console Colin Channer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17173 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Migrant Chef Laura Tillman 2023 Unknown English
17173 Elsewhere Yan Ge 2023 Chinese English
17173 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17173 Künstlers In Paradise Cathleen Schine 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Great Displacement Jake Bittle 2023 Unknown English
17173 Daughter In Exile Bisi Adjapon 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17173 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17173 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17173 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17173 On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock 2023 Unknown English
17173 A Country You Can Leave Asale Angel-Ajani 2023 Unknown English
17173 2 A.M. In Little America Ken Kalfus 2022 American English
17173 Motherland Paula Ramón 2020 Unknown English
17173 The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier 2013 American English
17173 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
17173 Fish Soup Margarita García Robayo 2018 Colombian Spanish
17173 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17173 A Country For Dying Abdellah Taïa 2015 French French
17173 Land Of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen 2021 American English
17173 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17173 Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2016 Canadian English
17173 Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid Thor Hanson 2021 American English
17173 Drift Caroline Bergvall 2014 Unknown English
17173 East Of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck American Unknown
17173 Syrian Brides Anna Halabi 2018 Unknown English
17173 Tolk Maja Lee Langvad Danish Unknown