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
17114 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin 1951 American English
17114 Voyagers to the West Bernard Bailyn 1986 American English
17114 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17114 Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff 2011 American English
17114 In The Light Of What We Know Zia Haider Rahman 2014 British English
17114 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17114 Empireland Sathnam Sanghera 2021 British English
17114 Black And British David Olusoga 2016 British English
17114 South To America Imani Perry 2022 American English
17114 Cuba Ada Ferrer 2021 American English
17114 The Best Of Albert Wendt’s Short Stories Albert Wendt 1999 New Zealand English
17114 Storia Del Dove Tommaso Maccacaro, Claudio M. Tartari 2017 Italian Unknown
17114 Frontiers Noel Mostert 1992 South African English
17114 And My Share Of The Horizon Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh Tunisian Unknown
17114 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17114 Wandering Wings Jawad Al-Sidawi Unknown Unknown
17114 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17114 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17114 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17114 American Dirt Jeanine Cummins 2020 American English
17114 Alaska James A. Michener 1988 American English
17114 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17114 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17114 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17114 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17114 A History Of South Africa Frank Welsh 1998 Unknown English
17114 Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay 2011 American English
17114 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17114 The Gullet Clinton Palanca Philippine English
17114 Stork Mountain Miroslav Penkov 2016 Bulgarian English
17114 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
16931 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17114 In The Country Mia Alvar 2015 Unknown English
17114 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17114 I Was Called To Dixie Andrew Karl Larson 1961 Unknown English
17114 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17114 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17114 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17114 Yellow Book Amitava Kumar 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Afrikaners John Fisher 1969 Unknown English
17114 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17114 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17114 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17114 Bounty Lands William Ellis 1981 Unknown English
17114 Mobility Lydia Kiesling 2023 American English
17114 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17114 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17114 This Country Navied Mahdavian 2023 Unknown English
17114 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17114 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 American English
17114 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17114 Console Colin Channer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17114 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Migrant Chef Laura Tillman 2023 Unknown English
17114 Elsewhere Yan Ge 2023 Chinese English
17114 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17114 Künstlers In Paradise Cathleen Schine 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Great Displacement Jake Bittle 2023 Unknown English
17114 Daughter In Exile Bisi Adjapon 2023 Unknown English
17114 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17114 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17114 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17114 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17114 On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock 2023 Unknown English
17114 A Country You Can Leave Asale Angel-Ajani 2023 Unknown English
17114 2 A.M. In Little America Ken Kalfus 2022 American English
17114 Motherland Paula Ramón 2020 Unknown English
17114 The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier 2013 American English
17114 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
17114 Fish Soup Margarita García Robayo 2018 Colombian Spanish
17114 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17114 A Country For Dying Abdellah Taïa 2015 French French
17114 Land Of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen 2021 American English
17114 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17114 Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2016 Canadian English
17114 Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid Thor Hanson 2021 American English
17114 Drift Caroline Bergvall 2014 Unknown English
17114 Syrian Brides Anna Halabi 2018 Unknown English