by Dohra Ahmad
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (UK → Australia)
Faïza Guène, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Morocco → France)
Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (China → UK)
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (Ghana → USA)
Rawi Hage, Cockroach (Lebanon → Canada)
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (unnamed country very much like Pakistan → Greece → UK → USA); The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Pakistan → USA → Pakistan)
Bessie Head, A Question of Power; When Rain Clouds Gather (South Africa → Botswana)
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans (Mexico/Panama → USA)
Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (Mexico → USA)
Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Niger → USA → Canada → Sierra Leone → UK)
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (unspecified Caribbean → dystopian future Canada); Midnight Robber (fictional Afrofuturistic planet colonized by Caribbean settlers); The Salt Roads (African diaspora); Skin Folk: Stories (Jamaica and other Caribbean → Canada)
Vanessa Hua, A River of Stars (China → USA)
Yang Huang, My Old Faithful: Stories (China → USA)
Djamila Ibrahim, Things Are Good Now (Ethiopia and elsewhere → Canada and elsewhere)
Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife (China → USA)
*Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants (UK → USA)
Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil (USA → Nigeria)
Naomi Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill (USA → Barbados)
*Henry James, The Europeans (Europe → USA)
Ha Jin, A Free Life; A Good Fall (China → USA); A Map of Betrayal; Nanjing Requiem (USA → China)
*James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (USA → France)
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars (Syria → USA → Syria)
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Montecore (Tunisia → Sweden / Sweden → USA)
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (Antigua → USA)
*Rudyard Kipling, Kim (first generation India)
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train (Ireland → USA)
Joy Nozomi Kogawa, Itsuka; Obasan (Japan → Canada)
Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana (India → USA)
Akil Kumarasamy, Half Gods (multiple migrations)
Hari Kunzru, Transmission (India → USA/global migrations)
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (first generation UK)
Harold Sonny Ladoo, No Pain Like This Body (India → Trinidad and Tobago)
Dany Laferrière, The Enigma of the Return (Haiti → Canada)
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies; The Lowland; The Namesake (India → USA)
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Vietnam → USA)
Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (Morocco → Spain); The Moor’s Account (Morocco → North America)
George Lamming, The Emigrants; Of Age and Innocence (Barbados → UK)
Nella Larsen, Quicksand (USA → Denmark)
Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (first generation USA)
Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East (China → Canada)
Andrea Levy, Every Light in the House Burnin’; The Long Song; Fruit of the Lemon; Never Far from Nowhere; Six Stories and an Essay; Small Island (first generation UK)
Earl Lovelace, Jestina’s Calypso (Trinidad and Tobago → USA)
Michael David Lukas, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo (USA → Egypt)
Sindiwe Magona, Push-Push! and Other Stories (South Africa → USA)
Gautam Malkani, Londonstani (first generation UK)
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (UK → Australia)
*Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales (Germany → Italy)
Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (Rhodesia [present-day Zimbabwe] → UK)
Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Daughters (first generation USA)
Demetria Martínez, Mother Tongue (El Salvador → USA)
Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance (unnamed country → Egypt)
Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers (Cameroon → USA)
Colum McCann, Dancer (Russia → USA); Songdogs (Ireland → Spain → Mexico → USA → Ireland); TransAtlantic (multiple migrations)
*Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile; Moby-Dick; Omoo; Typee (USA → various places)
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Ethiopia → USA); How to Read the Air (Ethiopia → USA → Ethiopia)
Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag (India → Canada)
Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night (Lantanacamara [fictionalized version of Trinidad] → UK → Lantanacamara); Out on Main Street and Other Stories (Trinidad and Tobago → Canada)
Bharati Mukherjee, Darkness; Jasmine; The Middleman and Other Stories; The Tiger’s Daughter; Wife (India → USA)
*Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Netherlands → Java)
Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Sri Lanka → USA)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (France → USA); Pale Fire (fictional Eastern European country → USA); Pnin (Russia → USA)
V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (Trinidad and Tobago → UK); The Mimic Men (fictional Caribbean country → UK)
Shenaaz Nanji, Child of Dandelions (India → Uganda)
Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women (Senegal → France)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees (various migrations); The Sympathizer (Vietnam → USA)
Elizabeth Nunez, Anna In-Between; Boundaries; Grace (Trinidad and Tobago → USA)
Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch (USA → Nigeria); Binti and Binti: Home (fictional interplanetary migration)
Ben Okri, Incidents at the Shrine (Nigeria → UK)
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra (Iran → USA → Spain)
Joseph O’Neill, Netherland (Netherlands → USA)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Mother Tongue (Turkey → Germany)
George Papaellinas, The Trip (Greece → Australia)
A. S. Patrić, Black Rock White City (Yugoslavia/Serbia → Australia)
Sasenarine Persaud, Canada Geese and Apple Chatney: Stories (Guyana → Canada/USA)
Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Harriet’s Daughter (Trinidad and Tobago → Canada)
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (African diaspora); A Distant Shore (unnamed African country → UK); A View of the Empire at Sunset (Dominica → UK)
Velma Pollard, Homestretch (UK → Jamaica)
Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (Afghanistan → UK, and other migrations)
Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing (Syria → Canada)
Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter (India → USA); An Unrestored Woman (India → Pakistan → USA/Europe)
Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (Dominica → UK)
*José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere (Philippines → Spain → Philippines)
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Shadow Child (Japan → USA)
Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories (Puerto Rico → mainland USA)
Sandip Roy, Don’t Let Him Know (India → USA)
*María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Who Would Have Thought It? (Mexico → USA)
Salman Rushdie, East, West: Stories; Fury; The Satanic Verses (India → UK, and other migrations)
Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used for God: Stories (multiple migrations)
Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (India → UK)
Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field (Japan → Canada)
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Sudan → UK → Sudan)
Kim Scott, Taboo (Indigenous Australian internal migration); That Deadman Dance (indigenous view of Australi
an colonial migration)
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (UK → North America)
Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go (Ghana → UK/USA)
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy; The Hungry Ghosts (Sri Lanka → Canada)
Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark; The Lonely Londoners; Moses Ascending; Moses Migrating (various Caribbean → UK)
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (Pakistan → UK → USA/Syria)
Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (Russia → USA)
Makeda Silvera, The Heart Does Not Bend (Jamaica → Canada)
*Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (Lithuania → USA)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories; Enemies: A Love Story (Eastern Europe → USA)
Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan (India → Pakistan)
*Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia (Ivory Coast → UK); Swing Time (first generation UK)
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman (Nigeria → UK → Nigeria)
*John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (USA internal migration)
Misa Sugiura, It’s Not Like It’s a Secret (first generation USA)
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado (Philippines → USA → Philippines)
Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home (Mexico → USA)
Nafcote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant (Ethiopia → USA → fictional island commune)
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (China → USA)
Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised (China → USA)
H. Nigel Thomas, Lives: Whole and Otherwise (various Caribbean → Canada); No Safeguards (St. Vincent → Canada); When the Bottom Falls Out: And Other Stories (fictional Caribbean island → Canada)
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Ireland → USA); The Master (USA → Europe); The South (Ireland → Spain)
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt (Vietnam → France)
Katia D. Ulysse, Drifting (Haiti → USA); Mouths Don’t Speak (USA → Haiti)
Thrity Umrigar, The Weight of Heaven (USA → India)
Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels; Into the Beautiful North (Mexico → USA)
M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin’s Song (India → Canada); The Book of Secrets (India → Tanzania); The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (India → Kenya); The Magic of Saida (Tanzania → Uganda → Canada); No New Land (Tanzania → Canada)
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer, The Water Diviner and Other Stories (Sri Lanka → USA)
Eric Walrond, Tropic Death (various Caribbean → Panama Canal Zone)
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country’s Good (UK → Australia)
Zoë Wicomb, October (Scotland → South Africa); The One That Got Away: Short Stories (South Africa → Scotland); You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (South Africa → UK)
Tara June Winch, After the Carnage (multiple migrations)
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (Indigenous Australian internal migration)
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (China → USA)
Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning (St. Thomas → USA)
Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers; Hungry Hearts; Salome of the Tenements (Poland/Russia → USA)
Mia Yun, Translations of Beauty (South Korea → USA)
Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky (Hong Kong → USA)
Arnold Zable, Cafe Scheherazade (Eastern Europe → Australia)
POETRY
Chris Abani, Sanctificum (Nigeria → USA)
Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Iran → USA)
Meena Alexander, Atmospheric Embroidery (multiple migrations); Illiterate Heart (India → USA)
Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral (Trinidad and Tobago, and other Caribbean → Canada)
Joseph Brodsky, Selected Poems (Russia → USA)
Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm (USA → Canada)
Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone (first generation UK)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Rules of the House (Tibet → India/Nepal)
Ali Cobby Eckermann, Inside My Mother (Indigenous Australian internal migration)
Federico García Lorca, Poet in New York (Spain → USA)
Lorna Goodison, Supplying Salt and Light; Travelling Mercies; Turn Thanks (multiple migrations)
Nathalie Handal, Poet in Andalucía; The Republics (multiple migrations)
Lawson Fusao Inada, Drawing the Line; Legends from Camp (USA internment)
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread Beat and Blood; Mi Revalueshanary Fren (Jamaica → UK)
Canisia Lubrin, Voodoo Hypothesis (multiple migrations)
Grace Nichols, I Have Crossed an Ocean (Guyana → UK); I Is a Long Memoried Woman (West Africa → Caribbean)
Sasenarine Persaud, In a Boston Night: Poems; Love in a Time of Technology: Poems; Monsoon on the Fingers of God: Poems (Guyana → Canada/USA)
Andy Quan, Bowling Pin Fire (first generation Canada); Slant (China → various places)
Lalbihari Sharma, I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara, translated by Rajiv Mohabir (India → Guyana)
H. Nigel Thomas, Moving Through Darkness (St. Vincent and other Caribbean → Canada)
Tenzin Tsundue, Crossing the Border (Tibet → India)
*Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems (Russia → Germany → Czechoslovakia → Russia)
Gina Athena Ulysse, Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me, & THE WORLD (USA → Haiti)
*César Vallejo, “Spain, Take This Chalice from Me” and Other Poems (Peru → Spain/France)
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Vietnam → USA)
*Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings (West Africa → North America)
Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Writings (Japan → USA)
Ouyang Yu, Moon Over Melbourne & Other Poems (China → Australia)
MEMOIR/NONFICTION/MULTIGENRE
Meena Alexander, Fault Lines (India → Sudan → UK → USA); The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (India → USA)
Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (India → Guyana)
Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (West Africa → Trinidad and Tobago → Canada)
Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Philippines → USA)
Staceyann Chin, The Other Side of Paradise (Jamaica → USA)
Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire (Jamaica → UK)
*Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Ghana → West Indies → UK)
Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (first generation UK)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging (India → Tibet)
*Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (USA internal migration)
Ali Cobby Eckermann, Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood (Indigenous Australian internal migration)
*Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (West Africa → Barbados → UK)
Aminatta Forna, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest (Sierra Leone → UK)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (India → South Africa → UK → India)
*Emma Goldman, Living My Life (Russia → USA)
Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Jamaica → UK)
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (African diaspora)
Abeer Y. Hoque, Olive Witch: A Memoir (Nigeria → USA → Bangladesh)
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (West Africa [present-day Benin] → USA)
*Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African
Childhood (UK → Kenya)
Francisco Jiménez, Breaking Through; Reaching Out; Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Mexico → USA)
Ha Jin, The Writer as Migrant (China → USA)
Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty; When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; A Small Person Far Away (Germany → UK)
Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book) (Antigua → USA)
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men; The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (China → USA)
Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant (first generation Canada)
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland (Togo → Greenland)
Amitava Kumar, Passport Photos (India → USA)
Murat Kurnaz, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo (Germany → Pakistan → Guantánamo → Germany)
George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (Caribbean → UK)
Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Mexico → USA)
Paule Marshall, Triangular Road: A Memoir (first generation USA)
*José Martí, Selected Writings; Our America: Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence (Cuba → USA)
Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Libya → Kenya → Egypt → UK → USA → Libya)
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes; Teacher Man; ’Tis (Ireland → USA)
Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming; Singing My Him Song (Ireland → USA)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Caste and Outcast (India → USA)
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Russia → UK → USA)
*Shiva Naipaul, North of South: An African Journey (Trinidad and Tobago → East Africa)
Shoba Narayan, Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes (India → USA)
*Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (USA internal migration)
Elizabeth Nunez, Not for Everyday Use (Trinidad and Tobago → USA)
Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Dominican Republic → USA)
Shailja Patel, Migritude (Kenya → UK → USA)
Caryl Phillips, Colour Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging (St. Kitts → UK)
*Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (Bermuda → UK)
Jacob G. Rosenberg, Sunrise West (Poland → Australia)