Diverse Voices Book Challenge

Book Lists

Not sure where to start? Check out some suggested titles below by category.

This is only a starting list and not exclusive. Other materials can be considered at any time and added to these lists. Many books are also intersectional and can be counted for a variety of categories. Happy reading!

  • Hispanic/Latino

    • A Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

    • Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda

    • Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

    • Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

    • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

    • Casi Una Mujer by Esmeralda Santiago

    • City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

    • Days and Night of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano

    • Drown by Junot Diaz

    • Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

    • Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    • Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel Jose Older

    • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

    • How to Travel Without Really Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Andres Neuman

    • I’ll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos

    • Into the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea

    • Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda

    • Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava

    • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    • Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

    • Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet

    • Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

    • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    • Only the Road/Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry by Margaret Randall

    • Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

    • Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

    • Sketches of the Valley and the Other Works by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

    • Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique

    • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

    • The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    • The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito by Miguel Pinero

    • A Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

    • The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

    • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

    • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    • The Road to Llorona Park by Christopher Carmona

    • The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes

    • This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

    • Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

    • Umami by Laia Jufresa

    • Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes

    • Viente Poemas De Amor Y Una Cancion Desesperada by Pablo Neruda

    • We the Animals by Justin Torres

    • When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

  • LGBTQ+

    • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

    • A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass

    • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

    • Ask a Queer Chick by Lindsay King-Miller

    • Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt

    • Before Everything by Victoria Redel

    • Believe Me by Eddie Izzard

    • Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

    • Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

    • Days without End by Sebastian Barry

    • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

    • Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn

    • Forcing the Spring by Jo Becker

    • Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

    • How to Survive Summer by Nick White

    • James Merrill by Langdon Hammer

    • My Two Moms by Zach Wahls

    • On Being Different by Merle Miller

    • Party of One by Dave Holmes

    • Planetfall by Emma Newman

    • Prudence by David Treuer

    • Radical Hope by Carolina de Robertis

    • Resistance, Rebellion, Life by Amit Majmudar

    • Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

    • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

    • Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino

    • Stuck in the Middle with You by Jennifer Finney Boylan

    • Stung with Love by Sappho

    • Take Me with You by Andrea Gibson

    • Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

    • The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

    • The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias

    • The Danish Girl by David?

    • The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

    • The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis

    • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

    • The Lauras by Sara Taylor

    • The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

    • The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

    • The New Old Me by Meredith Maran

    • The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

    • The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

    • The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan

    • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

    • When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

  • Mental & Physical Disabilities

    • A Difference in the Family by H. Featherstone

    • A Kind of Miraculous Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia by Sandra Allen

    • Aidan's Way: The Story of a Boy's Life and a Father's Journey by G.T. Crane

    • All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

    • Body, Remember by K. Fries

    • Changed by a Child by B. Gill

    • Defying the Verdict: My Bipolar Life by Charita Cole Brown

    • Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by J. Callahan

    • Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

    • Everything is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

    • Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by E. Clare

    • Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic by M. Beck

    • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

    • Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Seelsa

    • Fighting for Darla: Challenges for Family Care & Professional Responsibility: The Case Study of a Pregnant Adolescent with Autism by E. Brantlinger, S. Klein and S. Guskin

    • First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson

    • Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

    • Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan R. Nussbaum

    • It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    • Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser

    • Life as We Know It: A Father, Family, & an Exceptional Child by M. Berube

    • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression & the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

    • Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by L. Blackman

    • Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway

    • Meditations from a Movable Chair by A. Dubus

    • Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars, Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride by S.E. Brown

    • My Heat and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

    • My Left Foot by C. Brown

    • Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto

    • Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

    • Rescuing Jeffrey by R. Galli

    • Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out by K. Fries

    • The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

    • Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin

    • The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

    • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    • The Broken Cord by M. Dorris

    • The Child Who Never Grew by P.S. Buck

    • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

    • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by J. Bauby

    • The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness by Mary Pilon

    • The Memory Light by Francisco X. Stork

    • The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska

    • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

    • The Power of the Powerless by C. De Vinck

    • The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

    • The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories by R. Bogdan and S. J. Taylor

    • The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, & the Collision of Two Cultures by A. Fadiman

    • The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

    • There's a Boy in Here by J. Barron and S. Barron

    • We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

    • Where is the Mango Princess? By C. Crimmins

    • Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

    • Wonder by R.J. Palacio

  • Native American

    • An American Café by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

    • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

    • Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo

    • Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

    • Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria

    • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

    • Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations and the U.S. Constitution by Oren Lyons

    • Fools Crow by James Welch

    • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

    • Indian Lawyer by James Welch

    • Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese

    • Killing the White Man’s Indian: The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century by Fergus M. Bordewich

    • Lakota Woman by Richard Erdoes and Mary Crow Dog

    • Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

    • Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

    • People of the Whale by Linda Hogan

    • Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

    • Power by Linda Hogan

    • Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy

    • Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria Jr.

    • Reinventing the Enemy’s Language by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

    • Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent by Jay Fikes and Walter Echo-Hawk

    • Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe

    • Sundown by John Joseph Mathews

    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

    • The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge by D. Fixico

    • The Dance Boots by Linda LeGarde Grover

    • The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong by Stephen Graham Jones

    • The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

    • The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch

    • The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale

    • The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick

    • The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians by Kenneth Rosen

    • The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

    • The Round House by Louise Erdrich

    • The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens

    • The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko

    • Tracks by Louise Erdrich

    • Whale Ride by Witi Ihimaera

    • When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

    • Winter in the Blood by James Welch

    • Wisdom Keepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden

    • Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

    • You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

  • Spirituality & Religions

    • A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strengths to Love and Other Preachings by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    • A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life by Shantideva

    • A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

    • Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yoganada

    • Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism by Neil J. Kressel

    • Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization by Reza Aslan

    • Crisis of Conscience: The Story of the Struggle Between Loyalty to God and Loyalty to One's Religion by Raymond Franz

    • Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science by Mike McHargue

    • Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World by Shelina Janmohamed

    • Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump by Kenneth L. Woodward

    • God: A Human History by Resa Aslan

    • Growing Up in Mama's Club by Richard E. Kelly

    • How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life by Dalai Lama

    • I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim

    • Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick

    • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World by Timothy Keller

    • Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain

    • No god but God by Reza Aslan

    • Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf

    • The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama

    • The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

    • The Coming Deliverer by Fiona Bowie

    • The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson

    • The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

    • The Fear of Islam: An Introduction of Islamophobia in the West by Todd H. Green

    • The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

    • The Man Who Wasn't There: Tales from the Edge of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy

    • The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson

    • The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture by Paul S. Fiddes

    • The Power of Positive Energy by Andrian Teodoro

    • The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife: Move to the Golden City by Rivka Levy

    • The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham

    • The Town Beyond the Wall by Elie Wiesel

    • Thirst by Mary Oliver

    • Virtually Islamic: Computer-Mediated Communication & Cyber Islamic Environments by Gary Bunt

    • Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

  • Black/African American

    • Africana by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates

    • Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

    • Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

    • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

    • Beloved by Toni Morrison

    • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    • Black Boy by Richard Wright

    • Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Davis

    • Blues People by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

    • Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

    • Bud , Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

    • Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory

    • Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

    • Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow

    • Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley

    • From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin

    • God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson

    • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

    • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

    • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs

    • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

    • Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    • Lost Prophet: The Life & Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio

    • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

    • Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

    • Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

    • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

    • Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson

    • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

    • The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

    • The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

    • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

    • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

    • The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young

    • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

    • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

    • The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

    • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

    • The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker

    • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

    • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

    • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

    • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    • They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima

    • Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

    • Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph

    • What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson

    • Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

  • National Women's History

    • A Woman's Place is at the Top by Hannah Kimberley

    • A Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand In the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

    • Afterland by Mai Der Vang

    • All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

    • Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

    • Bossypants by Tina Fey

    • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    • Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

    • Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

    • Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

    • Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton

    • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

    • Hunger by Roxane Gay

    • I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Inspired by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

    • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

    • In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle

    • Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    • Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

    • March Forward, Girl by Melba Patillo Beals

    • Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

    • Meet Cute by Nicola Yoon, Nina Lacour and others

    • My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

    • My Body is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta

    • My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    • Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood by Hollie McNish

    • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    • Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

    • Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

    • Radium Girls by Kate Moore

    • She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton

    • She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

    • Shrill by Lindy West

    • Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill

    • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

    • The Radical Element by Jessica Spotswood

    • The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • The Woman Who Smashed Codes

    • This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

    • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    • Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

    • Yes Please by Amy Poehler

  • International Students

    • A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

    • A Resistencia by Julian Fuks

    • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoiz Adichie

    • Chinese Students Encounter America by Qian Ning

    • Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

    • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

    • English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee

    • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

    • Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw

    • Goat Days by Benyamin

    • Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

    • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

    • KL Noir Series by various authors

    • My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    • Noite Dentro da Noite by Joca Reiners Terron

    • O Livro Amarelo do Terminal by Vanessa Barbara

    • Once We Were There by Bernice Chauly

    • Ordinary People by Diana Evans

    • Out by Natsuo Kirino

    • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

    • Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung-Sook

    • Popular Music from Vittula

    • Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer

    • The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond

    • The Boat to Redemption by Su Tong

    • The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe

    • The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

    • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

    • The Harmony of Silk Factory by Tash Aw

    • The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

    • The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

    • The Lido by Libby Page

    • The Only Story by Julian Barnes

    • The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

    • The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

    • The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

    • The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

    • The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke

    • Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu

    • Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

    • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

  • Military Appreciation

    • A Double Dose of Hard Luck by Leo Amie Labrie

    • A Lifetime at War: Life After Being Severely Wounded in Combat; Never Ending Dung by Gordon L. Ewell

    • A Return to Meadow Wood by Sam Rawlins

    • American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle

    • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

    • Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

    • Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic

    • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

    • Dishonoring the Honorable by M. Plante

    • Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton

    • Goodbye Vietnam by William Broyles

    • Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

    • House to House by David Bellavia

    • How to Grow a Beard: A Military Transition Guide Back into Civilian Life by Robert Graves

    • Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams

    • Military Life: Service or Career A Soldier's Perspective by John McClarren

    • No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by Diane Burke Fessler

    • On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

    • Regeneration by Pat Barker

    • The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

    • The Snake Eaters by Owen West

    • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

    • The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

    • Then I Came Home by Sam Gaylord

    • Vietnam Reflections: The Untold Story of the Holley Boys by Michael T. Keene

    • Vietnam War Through the Eyes of the Teenage Soldier by Thomas R. Joyce

    • War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Edward Tick

    • We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

    • What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

  • Asian American Pacific Islander

    • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

    • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

    • A World Without Boundaries: A Story of Human Atrocities, Despair, Migration, and Interconnections by Ge Xiong

    • Afterland by Mai Der Vang

    • All In by Jerry Yang

    • Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua

    • Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp by Lynellyn D. Long

    • Brothers by Yu Hua

    • Calling the Soul by Patricia V. Symonds

    • Chicago: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany

    • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

    • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

    • First they Killed My Father by Loung Ung

    • Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung

    • Hmong in Minnesota by Chia Vang

    • Human Acts by Han Kang

    • I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience by Lillian Faderman

    • In the Country by Mia Alvar

    • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

    • Lonesome Lies Before Us by Don Lee

    • Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok

    • Many Ideas Open the Way: A Collection of Hmong Proverbs by Randy Snook

    • Music of Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner

    • No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakest Satyal

    • Obasan by Joy Kogawa

    • On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

    • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

    • Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen

    • Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

    • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

    • The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

    • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

    • The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

    • The Leavers by Lisa Ko

    • The Mountain by Paul Yoon

    • The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    • The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin

    • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

    • The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea

    • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

    • Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars of Laos, 1942-1992 by Jane Hamilton-Merritt

    • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

    • War Trash by Ha Jin

    • Year of the Dog by Henry Chang