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Immigration
7 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
7 posts
Where to Start with Min Jin Lee: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Min Jin Lee — whether to begin with Pachinko or Free Food for Millionaires. A complete reading guide to the Korean-American novelist.
Best Books About Diaspora and Exile: Essential Fiction
The best books about diaspora and exile — from Americanah and White Teeth to The Namesake and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Essential fiction.
Best Books About Home and Belonging: Novels of Place, Identity, and Return
The best novels about home and belonging — from Brooklyn to The Remains of the Day to Americanah. Books about place, identity, and what it means to belong somewhere.
Best Books About Identity: Essential Reading List
The best books about identity — from Invisible Man and Middlesex to Americanah and White Teeth. Literature on race, gender, culture, and who we are.
Best Books About Immigration: Essential Reading List
The best books about immigration — from Pachinko and The Namesake to Americanah and The Kite Runner. Literature on belonging, displacement, and the immigrant experience.
Jhumpa Lahiri Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Jhumpa Lahiri's complete bibliography in order — from Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake to Unaccustomed Earth. Best starting points for new readers.
Books Like Pachinko: Multigenerational Sagas, Immigration, and the Weight of History
Min Jin Lee's four-generation saga of a Korean family in Japan — from a teenage girl's shame to her grandson's life in Tokyo — is the great immigration novel of the twenty-first century. These books share its multigenerational sweep, its focus on survival, and its account of what it costs to live as an outsider.
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