One Book One Coast

One Book, One Coast connects West Coast libraries through a shared read. This year's selection, They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, is a graphic memoir about family, identity, and resilience. Here are some more titles that are similar in theme.

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One Book One Coast

One Book, One Coast connects West Coast libraries through a shared read. This year's selection, They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, is a graphic memoir about family, identity, and resilience. Here are some more titles that are similar in theme.

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They called us enemy
Takei, George
Paper Book
Discover this award-winning masterpiece before the release of George Takei's deeply personal follow-up, It Rhymes With Takei (June 2025). The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with...
When the emperor was divine : a novel
Otsuka, Julie
Paper Book
Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans....
Stubborn twig : three generations in the life of a Japanese American family
Kessler, Lauren.
Paper Book
No-no boy
Okada, John.
Paper Book
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,? writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the...
They called us enemy
Takei, George
Paper Book
Discover this award-winning masterpiece before the release of George Takei's deeply personal follow-up, It Rhymes With Takei (June 2025). The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with...
They called us enemy
Takei, George
Paper Book
Discover this award-winning masterpiece before the release of George Takei's deeply personal follow-up, It Rhymes With Takei (June 2025). The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with...
Nisei daughter
Sone, Monica Itoi
Paper Book
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to ?relocation? dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry?77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens'she and her...
American sutra : a story of faith and freedom in the second World War
Williams, Duncan Ryūken
Ebook
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Raises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in America truly means." --Ruth Ozeki "A must-read for anyone interested in the implacable quest for civil liberties, social and racial justice,...
Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Paper Book
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...
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