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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,125 ratings — published 2003
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,285 ratings — published 1999
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 — 688,233 ratings — published 2017
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.99 — 441,807 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 644,954 ratings — published 2021
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,336 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,734 ratings — published 2013
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 98,056 ratings — published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,249 ratings — published 1989
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 218,978 ratings — published 2024
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,943 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,160,840 ratings — published 2023
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,164 ratings — published 2019
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,844 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.79 — 180,454 ratings — published 2000
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,538 ratings — published 2017
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,613 ratings — published 2016
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,679 ratings — published 2013
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,200 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,182 ratings — published 2020
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,444 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.83 — 626,453 ratings — published 2014
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.67 — 250,215 ratings — published 1984
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,770 ratings — published 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,215 ratings — published 2007
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,320 ratings — published 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 86,280 ratings — published 2007
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.98 — 52,359 ratings — published 2022
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.66 — 20,674 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 186,080 ratings — published 2021
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.13 — 539,559 ratings — published 2022
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 76,157 ratings — published 2020
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 154,974 ratings — published 2017
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 114,485 ratings — published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,510 ratings — published 2017
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,500 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,018 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,604,615 ratings — published 2003
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,370 ratings — published 2022
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.49 — 85,206 ratings — published 2022
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,628 ratings — published 2016
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,955 ratings — published 2019
A Place for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.17 — 68,707 ratings — published 2018
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,694 ratings — published 2017
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 — 140,009 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,031 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,613 ratings — published 1958
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,484 ratings — published 1976
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,788 ratings — published 2010
Maame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.04 — 132,575 ratings — published 2023
“The Door of No Return - real and metaphoric as some places are, mythic to those of us who are scattered in the Americas today. To have one’s belonging lodged in a metaphor is voluptuous intrigue; to inhabit a trope; to be a kind of fiction. To live in the Black Diaspora I think is to live in a fiction - a creation of empires, and also self-creation. It is to be being living inside and outside herself. It is to apprehend the the sign one makes yet to be unable to escape it except in radiant moments of ordinariness made like art. To be a fiction in search of its most resonant metaphor then is even more intriguing.”
― A Map to the Door of No Return
― A Map to the Door of No Return
“This declaration of my blackness is not in the sense that I would wish to hold victim inclinations against myself at the expense of the works of Marcus Garvey. I'm Black not because the colonizer came to Africa and drew his askew borders around,
I'm Black not because ships developed familiarity with the atlantic waters,
I'm Black only because we needed the atlantic for there to ever exist such a person as Malcolm X.”
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I'm Black not because ships developed familiarity with the atlantic waters,
I'm Black only because we needed the atlantic for there to ever exist such a person as Malcolm X.”
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