Immigration Justice Reading List

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Fiction

  1. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

  3. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

  4. The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

  5. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

  6. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

  7. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

Nonfiction

 

  1. The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri

  2. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli

  3. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America Edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman 

  4. Radical Hope by Carolina De Robertis

  5. Born A Crime by Trevor Noah 

  6. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

  7. Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin

  8. The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

Graphic Novels

  1. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  2. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

  3. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

  4. I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

  5. Unterzakhn by Leela Corman

  6. Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America by Brian "Box" Brown

  7. Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha

 

YA

  1. We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

  2. A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi

  3. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

  4. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez

  5. The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

  6. Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Chapter Books

  1. Front Desk by Kelly Yang

  2. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai

  3. Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

  4. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

  5. My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope by Diane Guerrero, Erica Moroz


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Picture Books

 

  1. Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh

  2. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

  3. La Frontera: El Viaje Con Papá/The Border: My Journey with Papa

  4. What Is a Refugee? by Elisa Gravel

  5. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López

  6. Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by

    Duncan Tonatiuh


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