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