2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Diasporic


Diasporic Books

Cold Enough for Snow
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Everything I Never Told You
Shortcomings
White Teeth
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Americanah
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
A Fine Balance
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Back + Forth: A Novel in 90 Linocuts (Graphic Novels, 2)
Map of an Onion
Bite Hard
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
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Lists

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFusion of Reality by K VariaInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters