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Books Like Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · about this book

Loved Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? If its immigration, immigrant protagonist and racism hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Interior Chinatown, Pachinko and All the Lonely People. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Americanah: Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Racism · Female Lead · Cultural Identity

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   Interior Chinatown

   Charles Yu

   Cultural Identity · Immigration · Racism · Belonging · Literary Fiction

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Belonging · Racism

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   All the Lonely People

   Mike Gayle

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Racism · Belonging · Starting Over

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction

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   The Golem and the Jinni

   Helene Wecker

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Self-Discovery

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   On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

   Ocean Vuong

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction

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   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   The Weight of Ink

   Rachel Kadish

   Writer Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Character-Driven · Feminism

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   The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

   Taylor Jenkins Reid

   Writer Protagonist · Character-Driven · Dual Timeline · Feminism · Cultural Identity

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    And the Mountains Echoed

    Khaled Hosseini

    Nonlinear Narrative · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Belonging · Immigrant Protagonist

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    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    Immigrant Protagonist · Writer Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative

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    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    James McBride

    Immigration · Racism · Belonging · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity

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13. 

    Almost Life

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave

    Second Chance Romance · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Dual Timeline · Character-Driven

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14. 

    The Personal Librarian

    Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

    Cultural Identity · Racism · Belonging · Feminism · Character-Driven

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    Jemima J

    Jane Green

    Long-Distance Romance · Writer Protagonist · Self-Discovery · London · Contemporary Fiction

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    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    R.F. Kuang

    Cultural Identity · Racism · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Literary Fiction

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    The German Wife

    Kelly Rimmer

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Belonging · Dual Timeline · Character-Driven

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    Good in Bed

    Jennifer Weiner

    Writer Protagonist · Starting Over · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven · Female Lead

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    I Have Some Questions for You

    Rebecca Makkai

    Social Media · Literary Fiction · Feminism · Dual Timeline · Character-Driven

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    The Shadow Sister

    Lucinda Riley

    Self-Discovery · Writer Protagonist · Contemporary Fiction · London · Emotional

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