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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,624 ratings — published 2003
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,823 ratings — published 1999
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 — 631,504 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,783 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,217 ratings — published 2013
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 410,809 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.23 — 604,004 ratings — published 2021
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 96,887 ratings — published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,499 ratings — published 1989
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.16 — 169,269 ratings — published 2024
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,046,679 ratings — published 2023
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,093 ratings — published 2020
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,552 ratings — published 2000
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.26 — 265,676 ratings — published 2019
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,138 ratings — published 2017
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.17 — 50,443 ratings — published 2016
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,063 ratings — published 2020
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.68 — 235,902 ratings — published 1984
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,169 ratings — published 2007
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,110 ratings — published 2005
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 479,160 ratings — published 2022
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,394 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.83 — 613,031 ratings — published 2014
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 — 84,556 ratings — published 2007
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,645 ratings — published 2013
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,229 ratings — published 2008
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.67 — 19,364 ratings — published 2022
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,855 ratings — published 2021
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 151,888 ratings — published 2017
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,817 ratings — published 2015
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,085 ratings — published 1958
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.15 — 167,233 ratings — published 2021
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 111,954 ratings — published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,410 ratings — published 2017
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,113 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,986 ratings — published 1997
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,581 ratings — published 2022
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.49 — 76,991 ratings — published 2022
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,353 ratings — published 2020
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 38,850 ratings — published 2016
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,479 ratings — published 2018
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,733 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,641 ratings — published 1982
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,908 ratings — published 1976
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,241 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,506,583 ratings — published 2003
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,941 ratings — published 2022
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,203 ratings — published 2021
The Arsonists' City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,127 ratings — published 2021
The Other Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,526 ratings — published 2019
“Inoshiro laughed. "So what am I now? Wise enough to be weak? Or strong enough to be foolish?”
― Diaspora
― Diaspora
“Isn't content also context? I ask him. Your experiences, your circumstances, the time you live in? Consciousness isn't free-floating; it's enmeshed.
That is true, he says, but you know, I believe that the modern diaspora--that so many of us find ourselves somewhere else, migrants of some kind--global, multicultural, less rooted, less dependent on our immediate history of family or country to shape ourselves--all of that is preparing us for a looser and freer understanding of ourselves as content whose context can change.
Nationalism is on the rise, I say.
He nods. That's a throwback. A fear. A refusal of the future. But the future cannot be refused.”
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
That is true, he says, but you know, I believe that the modern diaspora--that so many of us find ourselves somewhere else, migrants of some kind--global, multicultural, less rooted, less dependent on our immediate history of family or country to shape ourselves--all of that is preparing us for a looser and freer understanding of ourselves as content whose context can change.
Nationalism is on the rise, I say.
He nods. That's a throwback. A fear. A refusal of the future. But the future cannot be refused.”
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
