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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,585 ratings — published 2003
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,463 ratings — published 1999
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 — 667,574 ratings — published 2017
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 632,197 ratings — published 2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.00 — 432,064 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,755 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,880 ratings — published 2016
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,650 ratings — published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.97 — 715,857 ratings — published 1989
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 202,698 ratings — published 2024
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,695 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,122,810 ratings — published 2023
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.25 — 270,815 ratings — published 2019
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,923 ratings — published 2016
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,304 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,601 ratings — published 2000
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,407 ratings — published 2017
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,327 ratings — published 2013
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,100 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.09 — 166,474 ratings — published 2020
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.67 — 245,606 ratings — published 1984
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,277 ratings — published 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,936 ratings — published 2007
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,899 ratings — published 2017
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.83 — 621,961 ratings — published 2014
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,709 ratings — published 2007
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,009 ratings — published 2022
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.66 — 20,303 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.13 — 520,611 ratings — published 2022
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 75,309 ratings — published 2020
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,988 ratings — published 2017
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,559 ratings — published 2015
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.14 — 179,621 ratings — published 2021
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 113,721 ratings — published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,233 ratings — published 2017
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,034 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,679 ratings — published 1997
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,569,038 ratings — published 2003
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,823 ratings — published 2022
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.49 — 82,529 ratings — published 2022
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,056 ratings — published 2016
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.84 — 158,997 ratings — published 2019
A Place for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.17 — 67,782 ratings — published 2018
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,436 ratings — published 2017
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 — 138,650 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,273 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,855 ratings — published 1958
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,351 ratings — published 1976
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,609 ratings — published 2010
Maame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,749 ratings — published 2023
“I only ever know myself hanging, in the exulted tempest untouched
by nativities—the possibilities of my name
emptied to the firmaments, which could not care to claim me
yet labour to intubate the clouds, blithely feeding my body to the greying
furies. My own jettisoned to the moors, a bay of white
polyester sheets, illuminated by ornate keys, bandaged
after Catastrophe.”
― Visiting Hours
by nativities—the possibilities of my name
emptied to the firmaments, which could not care to claim me
yet labour to intubate the clouds, blithely feeding my body to the greying
furies. My own jettisoned to the moors, a bay of white
polyester sheets, illuminated by ornate keys, bandaged
after Catastrophe.”
― Visiting Hours
“Who are you and who am I to set ourselves up as judges of an ancient people, and furthermore our own?”
“Who are you and who am I not to help an ancient people, and furthermore our own, refrain from serious error? Their salvation may depend on it, and ours certainly does!”
― The Forgotten
“Who are you and who am I not to help an ancient people, and furthermore our own, refrain from serious error? Their salvation may depend on it, and ours certainly does!”
― The Forgotten
