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Books Like Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri · about this book

Loved Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri? If its short stories, cultural identity and literary fiction hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Secret Daughter, The Joy Luck Club and Everything I Never Told You. 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 Unaccustomed Earth: Short Stories · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · India · Immigrant Protagonist

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   Secret Daughter

   Shilpi Somaya Gowda

   India · Belonging · Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity

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   The Joy Luck Club

   Amy Tan

   Belonging · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Estranged Family

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   Everything I Never Told You

   Celeste Ng

   Belonging · Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Estranged Family

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   Brooklyn

   Colm Toibin

   Belonging · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Sparse Prose · Cultural Identity

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5. 

   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Multigenerational Family · Grief Over a Parent · Estranged Family · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity

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6. 

   And the Mountains Echoed

   Khaled Hosseini

   Multigenerational Family · Estranged Family · Belonging · Immigration · Bittersweet

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigration · Belonging · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Multigenerational Family

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8. 

   Olive Kitteridge

   Elizabeth Strout

   Slow-Paced · Bittersweet · Belonging · Short Stories · Marriage in Trouble

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9. 

   Shanghai Girls

   Lisa See

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Multigenerational Family · Cultural Identity

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10. 

    This Is How You Lose Her

    Junot Diaz

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Short Stories · Cultural Identity · Belonging

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11. 

    The Shipping News

    Annie Proulx

    Belonging · Sparse Prose · Slow-Paced · Multigenerational Family · Bittersweet

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12. 

    'Tis A Memoir

    Frank McCourt

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Sparse Prose

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13. 

    House of Sand and Fog

    Andre Dubus III

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Belonging · Marriage in Trouble

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14. 

    Moloka'i

    Alan Brennert

    Belonging · Estranged Family · Bittersweet · Death of a Parent · Immigration

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15. 

    Americanah

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Belonging · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Character-Driven

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    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

    Barack Obama

    Belonging · Cultural Identity · Grief Over a Parent · Estranged Family · Multigenerational Family

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17. 

    Everything Sad Is Untrue

    Daniel Nayeri

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Bittersweet

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18. 

    Digging to America

    Anne Tyler

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Multigenerational Family

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19. 

    Arranged Marriage: Stories

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    India · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Short Stories

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    The Other Side of the World

    Stephanie Bishop

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Belonging · Cultural Identity · Slow-Paced

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