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- 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,...
- by Ayad Akhtar
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Blending fact and fiction, Homeland Elegies follows an immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard — and double consciousness — that ruled the lives of...
- by Laila Lalami
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century....
- Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma. “It is...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2018
A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not...
- by Sejal Badani
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2018
From the bestselling author Sejal Badani of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2018
The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2017
The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. With the coruscating gaze that informed...
- by Min Jin Lee
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja,...
- by Hala Alyan
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses by Hala Alyan follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home...
- by Tahmima Anam
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2016
From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a lyrical, deeply moving modern love story about belonging, migration, tragedy, survival, and the mysteries...
- by Marlon James
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2013
From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun—the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2013
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2013
Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai’i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible...
- by Toni Jensen
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Native American Literature, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2010
For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2009
A lyrical powerful novel about a family of Afro-Puerto Rican women spanning five generations, detailing their physical and spiritual journey from the Old World to the New. It is the...
- by Julie Otsuka
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2003
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2003
Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In...
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