New books about Immigration

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Are you participating in the library’s Read Great Things Challenge 2019?  Do you need suggestions for books about immigration? 

Here are some recent books, both nonfiction and fiction, that explore immigration and the immigrant and refugee experience.  These are now available in the library collection. 

  • The Good Immimgrant
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
  • Line becomes a river dispatches from the border
  • American Like Me by America Ferrera
  • Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  • American Intolerance
  • Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
  • Immigrant Experiences by Walter Ewing
  • Last Days of Cafe Leila by Donia Bijan
  • Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
  • America Classifies the Immigrants From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census by Joel Perlmann
  • Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
  • The Displaced Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
  • Woman is no man by Etaf Rum
  • We are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
  • The Leavers by Lisa Ko
  • This Land is Our Land by Sukeu Mehta
  • Solita, Solita: crossing borders with youth refugees from Central America
  • The death and life of Aida Hernandez A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow Strain
  • The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Durham Tech Library Read Great Things Challenge 2019