Brooklyn: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
Forever: A Novel
by Pete Hamill
Native Speaker
by Chang-rae Lee
A Gesture Life: A Novel
by Chang-rae Lee
Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake: A Novel
by Jhimpa Lahiri
The Tortilla Curtain
by TC Boyle
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
by Jane Ziegelman
White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
Who's Irish?: Stories
by Gish Jen
My Ántonia (Oxford World's Classics)
by Willa Cather
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
by Minal Harjratwala
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen
Short Girls: A Novel
by Bich Minh Nguyen
A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
by Shappi Khorsandi
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel
by Natasha Solomons
I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland
by Alice Carey
Saffron Dreams
by Shaila Abdullah
Brick Lane: A Novel
by Monica Ali
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
Little Bee: A Novel
by Chris Cleave
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Joseph O'Neill
Russian Debutante's Handbook
by Gary Shtenyngart
Kafka's Curse: A Novel
by Achmat Dangor
Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle)
by Tracy Kidder
Shanghai Girls: A Novel
by Lisa See
Beautiful Maria of My Soul
by Oscar Hijuelos
Zeitoun (Vintage)
by Dave Eggers
Veil of Roses
by Laura Fitzgerald
Honolulu
by Alan Brennert
American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
by May-Lee Chai, Winberg Chai
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
by Art Spiegelman
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by Yiyun Li
The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
The Road from Damascus
by Robin Yassin-Kassab
Digging to America: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
by Helen Simonson
Bitter Sweets
by Roopa Farooki
Bread Givers: A Novel
by Anzia Yezierska
Stalina
by Emily Rubin
The Free World: A Novel
by David Bezmozgis
Links to Reviews of Books Read by Past Immigrant Stories Challenge Participants (alphabetical by author):
Aghdashloo, Shoreh: The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines (Book Dilettante)
Aghdashloo, Shoreh: The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines (Books in the City)
Albright, Madeleine: Prague Winter (Book Dilettante)
Austin, Lynn: While We're Far Apart (Krystyn)
Baker, Christina: The Orphan Train (Introverted Reader)
Belfar, Edward: The Wanderers (Unabridged Chick)
Borg, Todd: Tahoe Trap (Book Dilettante)
Bowen, Rhys: Death of Riley (Avid Series Reader)
Bowen, Rhys: Murphy's Law (Avid Series Reader)
Brosgol, Vera: Anya's Ghost (Introverted Reader)
Cameron, DeAnna: Dancing At the Chance (Unabridged Chick)
Cardillo, Margaret: Just Being Audrey (Gathering Books)*
Chiofalo, Rosanna: Bella Fortuna (Books in the City)
Cleave, Chris: Little Bee (Books in the City)
Davis-Gardner, Angela: Butterfly's Child (Unabridged Chick)
Desrochers, Suzanne: The Bride of New France (Unabridged Chick)
Diaz, Junot: This Is How You Lose Her (Introverted Reader)
Durrell, Lawrence: Judith (Unabridged Chick)
Edwards, Yvette: A Cupboard Full of Coats (Book Dilettante)
Fu, Ping: Bend, Not Break (Book Dilettante)
Garstang, Clifford: What The Zhang Boys Know: A Novel in Stories (Book Dilettante)
Gourley, Candy: Tall Story (Gathering Books)*
Harrison, Kathryn: Enchantments (Unabridged Chick)
Hays, Avery: The Sixth (Unabridged Chick)
Heller, Linda: The Castle on Hester Street (Gathering Books)*
Hough, Jason: The Darwin Elevator (Unabridged Chick)
Hughes, Robert: The Fatal Shore (Caroline Bookbinder)
Jasperjohn, William: The Two Brothers (Gathering Books)*
Jean-Murat, Carolle: Voodoo in My Blood (Unabridged Chick)
Kalla, Daniel: The Far Side of the Sky (Book Dilettante)
Keltner, Kim Wong: Tiger Babies Strike Back (Book Dilettante)
Kerrigan, Kate: City of Hope (Books in the City)
Kidder, Tracy: Strength in What Remains (Caroline Bookbinder)
Kohler, Sheila: The Bay of Foxes (Unabridged Chick)
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation (JoV's Book Pyramid)
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation (Krystyn)
LaCava, Stephanie: An Extraordinary Theory of Objects (Unabridged Chick)
Laugheed, K.B.: The Spirit Keeper (Unabridged Chick)
Levine, Ellen: I Hate English (Gathering Books)*
Markovits, Anouk: I Am Forbidden (Unabridged Chick)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Krystn)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Unabridged Chick)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Diane R at Goodreads)
Marsden, John and Tan, Shaun: The Rabbits (Gathering Books)*
Moxley, Mitch: Apologies To My Censors (Introverted Reader)
O'Brien, Timothy: The Lincoln Conspiracy (Unabridged Chick)
Parssinen, Keija: The Ruins of Us (Col at Col Reads)
Pavone, Chris: The Expats (Unabridged Chick)
Perkins, Emily: The Forrests (Unabridged Chick)
Phan, Aimee: The Reeducation of Cherry Truong (Books in the City)
Platt, Donald Michael: House of Rocamora (Unabridged Chick)
Rao, Simi: An Uncurable Insanity (Book Dilettante)
Recorvits, Helen: My Name is Yoon (Gathering Books)*
Recorvits, Helen: Yoon and the Christmas Mitten (Gathering Books)*
Reyes, Cynthia: A Good Home (Book Dilettante)
Russell, Elaine: Across The Mekong River (Book Dilettante)
Sachs, Dana: Secret of the Nightingale Palace (Book Dilettante)
Sachs, Dana: Secret of the Nightingale Palace (Books in the City)
Say, Allen: El Chino (Gathering Books)*
Say, Allen: Grandfather's Journey (Gathering Books)*
Say, Allen: Music for Alice (Gathering Books)*
Sheene, Lynn: The Last Time I Saw Paris (Krystyn)
Simons, Paullina: Children of Liberty (Unabridged Chick)
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth (bookwanderer)
Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola (Introverted Reader)
Sreenivasan, Jyotsna: And Laughter Fell From the Sky (Books in the City)
St. John, Warren: Outcasts United (Caroline Bookbinder)
Thanhha, Lai: Inside Out and Back Again (Diane R at Goodreads)
Trigiani, Adriana: Lucia, Lucia (Books in the City)
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Wife (Books in the City)
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Wife (Diane R at Goodreads)
Troy, Peter: May The Road Rise Up To Meet You (Avid Series Reader)
Ung, Luong: Lucky Child (Books in the City)
Ung, Luong: Lulu in the Sky (Book Dilettante)
Van Booy, Simon: The Illusion of Separateness (Book Dilettante)
Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone (Introverted Reader)
Wahab, Saima: In My Father's Country (Book Dilettante)
Wahab, Saima: In My Father's Country (Unabridged Chick)
Wan, Helen: The Partner Track (Books in the City)
Wecker, Helene: Golem and Jinni (Unabridged Chick)
Yep, Laurence: When The Circus Came To Town (Gathering Books) *
Zobair, Jennifer: Painted Hands (Books in the City)
To learn more about the Immigrant Stories Challenge 2013 and to sign up, click here!

Forever: A Novel
Native Speaker
A Gesture Life: A Novel
Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Interpreter of Maladies
The Namesake: A Novel
The Tortilla Curtain
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
White Teeth: A Novel
Who's Irish?: Stories
My Ántonia (Oxford World's Classics)
The Inheritance of Loss
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Short Girls: A Novel
A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel
I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland
Saffron Dreams
Brick Lane: A Novel
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Away: A Novel
Little Bee: A Novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)
Russian Debutante's Handbook
Kafka's Curse: A Novel
Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle)
Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Beautiful Maria of My Soul
Zeitoun (Vintage)
Veil of Roses
Honolulu
American Born Chinese
The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
The Secret River
The Road from Damascus
Digging to America: A Novel
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
Bitter Sweets
Bread Givers: A Novel
Stalina
The Free World: A Novel
Links to Reviews of Books Read by Past Immigrant Stories Challenge Participants (alphabetical by author):
Aghdashloo, Shoreh: The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines (Book Dilettante)
Aghdashloo, Shoreh: The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines (Books in the City)
Albright, Madeleine: Prague Winter (Book Dilettante)
Austin, Lynn: While We're Far Apart (Krystyn)
Baker, Christina: The Orphan Train (Introverted Reader)
Belfar, Edward: The Wanderers (Unabridged Chick)
Borg, Todd: Tahoe Trap (Book Dilettante)
Bowen, Rhys: Death of Riley (Avid Series Reader)
Bowen, Rhys: Murphy's Law (Avid Series Reader)
Brosgol, Vera: Anya's Ghost (Introverted Reader)
Cameron, DeAnna: Dancing At the Chance (Unabridged Chick)
Cardillo, Margaret: Just Being Audrey (Gathering Books)*
Chiofalo, Rosanna: Bella Fortuna (Books in the City)
Cleave, Chris: Little Bee (Books in the City)
Davis-Gardner, Angela: Butterfly's Child (Unabridged Chick)
Desrochers, Suzanne: The Bride of New France (Unabridged Chick)
Diaz, Junot: This Is How You Lose Her (Introverted Reader)
Durrell, Lawrence: Judith (Unabridged Chick)
Edwards, Yvette: A Cupboard Full of Coats (Book Dilettante)
Fu, Ping: Bend, Not Break (Book Dilettante)
Garstang, Clifford: What The Zhang Boys Know: A Novel in Stories (Book Dilettante)
Gourley, Candy: Tall Story (Gathering Books)*
Harrison, Kathryn: Enchantments (Unabridged Chick)
Hays, Avery: The Sixth (Unabridged Chick)
Heller, Linda: The Castle on Hester Street (Gathering Books)*
Hough, Jason: The Darwin Elevator (Unabridged Chick)
Hughes, Robert: The Fatal Shore (Caroline Bookbinder)
Jasperjohn, William: The Two Brothers (Gathering Books)*
Jean-Murat, Carolle: Voodoo in My Blood (Unabridged Chick)
Kalla, Daniel: The Far Side of the Sky (Book Dilettante)
Keltner, Kim Wong: Tiger Babies Strike Back (Book Dilettante)
Kerrigan, Kate: City of Hope (Books in the City)
Kidder, Tracy: Strength in What Remains (Caroline Bookbinder)
Kohler, Sheila: The Bay of Foxes (Unabridged Chick)
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation (JoV's Book Pyramid)
Kwok, Jean: Girl in Translation (Krystyn)
LaCava, Stephanie: An Extraordinary Theory of Objects (Unabridged Chick)
Laugheed, K.B.: The Spirit Keeper (Unabridged Chick)
Levine, Ellen: I Hate English (Gathering Books)*
Markovits, Anouk: I Am Forbidden (Unabridged Chick)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Krystn)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Unabridged Chick)
McCoy, Sarah: The Baker's Daughter (Diane R at Goodreads)
Marsden, John and Tan, Shaun: The Rabbits (Gathering Books)*
Moxley, Mitch: Apologies To My Censors (Introverted Reader)
O'Brien, Timothy: The Lincoln Conspiracy (Unabridged Chick)
Parssinen, Keija: The Ruins of Us (Col at Col Reads)
Pavone, Chris: The Expats (Unabridged Chick)
Perkins, Emily: The Forrests (Unabridged Chick)
Phan, Aimee: The Reeducation of Cherry Truong (Books in the City)
Platt, Donald Michael: House of Rocamora (Unabridged Chick)
Rao, Simi: An Uncurable Insanity (Book Dilettante)
Recorvits, Helen: My Name is Yoon (Gathering Books)*
Recorvits, Helen: Yoon and the Christmas Mitten (Gathering Books)*
Reyes, Cynthia: A Good Home (Book Dilettante)
Russell, Elaine: Across The Mekong River (Book Dilettante)
Sachs, Dana: Secret of the Nightingale Palace (Book Dilettante)
Sachs, Dana: Secret of the Nightingale Palace (Books in the City)
Say, Allen: El Chino (Gathering Books)*
Say, Allen: Grandfather's Journey (Gathering Books)*
Say, Allen: Music for Alice (Gathering Books)*
Sheene, Lynn: The Last Time I Saw Paris (Krystyn)
Simons, Paullina: Children of Liberty (Unabridged Chick)
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth (bookwanderer)
Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola (Introverted Reader)
Sreenivasan, Jyotsna: And Laughter Fell From the Sky (Books in the City)
St. John, Warren: Outcasts United (Caroline Bookbinder)
Thanhha, Lai: Inside Out and Back Again (Diane R at Goodreads)
Trigiani, Adriana: Lucia, Lucia (Books in the City)
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Wife (Books in the City)
Trigiani, Adriana: The Shoemaker's Wife (Diane R at Goodreads)
Troy, Peter: May The Road Rise Up To Meet You (Avid Series Reader)
Ung, Luong: Lucky Child (Books in the City)
Ung, Luong: Lulu in the Sky (Book Dilettante)
Van Booy, Simon: The Illusion of Separateness (Book Dilettante)
Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone (Introverted Reader)
Wahab, Saima: In My Father's Country (Book Dilettante)
Wahab, Saima: In My Father's Country (Unabridged Chick)
Wan, Helen: The Partner Track (Books in the City)
Wecker, Helene: Golem and Jinni (Unabridged Chick)
Yep, Laurence: When The Circus Came To Town (Gathering Books) *
Zobair, Jennifer: Painted Hands (Books in the City)
To learn more about the Immigrant Stories Challenge 2013 and to sign up, click here!

Sounds like a great challenge!
ReplyDeleteSome other suggestions:
fiction:
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Veil of Roses, Laura Fitzgerald
Honolulu, Alan Brennert
American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
non-fiction:
The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea
The Girl from Purple Mountain, Winberg Chai and May-lee Chai
Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Bich Mihn Nguyen
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas
Maus, Art Spiegelman
kenpen - thanks for these suggestions - will definitely add them to the post!
ReplyDeleteI have two suggestions:
ReplyDeleteThe Night Counters by Alia Yunis
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki
I thoroughly enjoyed both!
I just finished reading When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt, and it was fabulous. It would definitely fit in with this challenge (it's about a woman who leaves her home in Italy and comes to America).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion Katy!
ReplyDeleteThis is my list for the Immigration Stories Challenge
ReplyDeleteBrooklyn - by Coln Toben
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Major Pettingrew Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
Leaving India by Manual Hajratwald
Brooklyn is required reading for all freshmen entering the NYU film program (maybe the whole school, but the film program for sure). My son wasn't crazy about it but I read it too and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was going take place at the turn of the century but it's the early 50's and has some fascinating glimpses into life in Brooklyn during the time period.
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