Immigrant and Refugee Communities - Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
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Homegoing
Gyasi, Yaa
Paper Book
Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016

Adult Fiction

Next year in Havana
Cleeton, Chanel
Paper Book
Havana, 1958. A sugar baron's daughter, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is sheltered from the growing political unrest -- until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary. Miami, 2017. After the death of her beloved grandmother, freelance writer Marisol Ferrera travels to...

Adult Fiction

What we owe
Hashemzadeh Bonde, Golnaz
Paper Book
The winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize "about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain . . . a masterpiece" (Tayari Jones, The Times). A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do...

Adult Fiction

Pachinko
Lee, Min Jin
Paper Book
One of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. "Stunning." --New York...

Adult Fiction

Transcendent kingdom
Gyasi, Yaa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! * Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama...

Adult Fiction

The undocumented Americans
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. "Karla's book sheds light on people's personal...

Adult Non Fiction

Accidentally engaged
Heron, Farah
Paper Book
A delectable romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement to the boy next door to enter a couples' cooking contest. "Farah Heron spins a delectable tale brimming with wit, emotion, and deliciously sexy banter that will leave readers hungry for more." ―...

Adult Fiction

Mother for dinner
Auslander, Shalom
Paper Book
By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed,...

Adult Fiction

Dominicana
Cruz, Angie
Paper Book
Una extraordinaria novela de iniciaci n sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edici n en Espanol. / An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition. El oltimo dia de...

Adult Fiction

Habibi
Thompson, Craig
Paper Book
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets comes a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of...

Adult Graphic Novel

I was their American dream : a graphic memoir
Gharib, Malaka
Paper Book
"A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book."-Jonny Sun " A high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib's wisdom about the power and limits of...

Adult Graphic Novel

Lost children archive
Luiselli, Valeria
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ...

Adult Fiction

The best we could do : an illustrated memoir
Bui, Thi
Paper Book
National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. ...

Adult Graphic Novel


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