Cultural Heritage Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
- Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together....
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don’t...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran,...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who...
- by Rachel Khong
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2024
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily...
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and...
- by Kim Ronyoung
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown. Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants...
- Black Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo—and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love matter. Her message: be smart (she has a medical degree after...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Dystopian, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown...
- by E.J. Koh
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father’s blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law,...
- by Tania James
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that...
- by R.F. Kuang
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
For fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want,...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself. North America...
- by Nikki May
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha....
- Contemporary Romance, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy,...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find...
- by Min Jin Lee
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
In this “mesmerizing” novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan’s inner circle (USA Today). Meet Casey Han:...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
In this “beautiful…urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle...
- by Ae-ran Kim
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Friendship Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
Ae-ran Kim’s My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times....
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2021
A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage,...