Immigrant Stories Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Michael Luo
- Cultural Anthropology, History, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle...
- by Noé Álvarez
- Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington,...
- by Hwaji Shin
- Demographic Studies, History, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
In Japan, the number of “Special Permanent Residents”―most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called “Zainichi”―is declining, according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are...
- by Prachi Gupta
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain—and lose—by taking...
- by Hua Hsu
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken,...
- by Curtis Chin
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and...
- by Geena Rocero
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she...
- Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2023
An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history. Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a...
- by Ly Tran
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned...
- by Julissa Arce
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Race and Ethnic Relations
- Publication Year: 2022
Bestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against...
- by Simu Liu
- Celebrity, Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese...
- Culture and Heritage, Graphic Novels, Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
“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...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen,...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2018
Butterfly is the inspiring story of how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning―and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer. When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized...
- by Yuyi Morales
- Graphic Novels, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2018
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States...
- Discrimination and Racism, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction, True Crime
- Publication Year: 2014
Imagine that a terrorist tried to kill you. If you could face him again, on your terms, what would you do? The True American by Anand Giridharadas tells the story...