We’ve brought back our Recommended Reading List, carefully curated by the ourBRIDGE team to spotlight books by immigrant and multicultural authors. You can find these titles at That’s Novel Books in Charlotte, NC!
Nonfiction
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos
Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenburg
Memoir & Biography
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo
Fiction
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Short-Story Collection
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Middle Grade & YA
Nuestra América by Sabrina Vourvoulias
The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel
Children’s
Alma by Juana Martinez-Neal
Chandra’s Magic Light by Theresa Heine
Festival of Colors by Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehga
Leila in Saffron by Rukhsanna Guidroz
The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang
Room for Everyone by Naaz Khan
ourBRIDGE Recommended Reading List PDF