In Foreign Lands...
Novels about Immigrants

A pilgrim in search of religious freedom, a farmer escaping hunger at home, a refugee from a war zone, and other immigrant to a foreign land, has unique experiences. Explore the immigrant experience in these fiction titles.

Inés of My Soul, Isabel Allende

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez

Hedwig and Berti, Frieda Arkin

The Salt Letters, Christine Balint

The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens

Katya, Sandra Birdsell

The Saint of Lost Things, Christopher Castellani

Mina, Jonatha Ceely

Inheritance, Lan Samantha Chang

The Money Dragon, Pam Chun

Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, T. Cooper

Let it Rain Coffee, Angie Cruz

The Village Bride of Beverly Hills, Kavita Daswani

The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai

Arranged Marriage: Stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fire Along the Sky, Sara Donati

Oh, Play That Thing, Roddy Doyle

House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III

The Immigrants, Howard Fast

Metropolis, Elizabeth Gaffney

The Ordinary Seaman, Francisco Goldman

Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande

The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free, James Kelman

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Laila Lalami

Welcome to Miami, Michael Largo

Seven Lies, James Lasdun

The Lightning Keeper, Starling Lawrence

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka

By Sorrow’s River, Larry McMurtry

Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran

Against Gravity, Farnoosh Moshiri

The Rug Merchant, Meg Mullins

The View from Castle Rock: Stories, Alice Munro

Second Burial for a Black Prince, Andrew Nugent

Kipligat’s Chance, David N. Odhiambo

Our Savage, Matt Pavelich

The Immigrant Train and Other Stories, Natalie L. M. Petesch

The Fortunate Pilgrim, Mario Puzo

You Don’t Have to Live Here, Natasha Radojcic

Alice in Exile, Piers Paul Read

Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie, O. E. Rølvaag

Tomorrow They Will Kiss, Eduardo Santiago

Liberation, Joanna Scott

Snowleg, Nicholas Shakespeare

The Vanishing Point, Mary Sharratt

The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Gary Shteyngart

Two Murders in My Double Life, Josef Skvorecký

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

The Turk and My Mother, Mary Helen Stefaniak

A Factory of Cunning, Philippa Stockley

The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan

Red Weather, Pauls Toutonghi

Digging to America, Anne Tyler

Memoirs of a Muse, Lara Vapnyar

I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation, John Welter

Up from Orchard Street, Eleanor Widmer

Translations of Beauty, Mia Yun

This is not an exhaustive list of fiction titles about the immigrant experience. For more fiction titles, Ask Readers Services!

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