Chanda’s Secret by Stratton
Septembers of Shiraz by Sofer
Long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Beah
The Kite Runner by Hosseni
Sold/ /by McCormick Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Staples Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nifisi
Broken Moon by Antieu
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Namesake by Lahiri
Over a thousand hills I walk with you by Jansen
When I was a soldier by Zenatti
One thousand splendid suns by Hosseni
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Laws of Evening by Mary Yakura Waters
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Does My Head Look Big in This; Randa Abdel Fattah
Tasting the Sky; Ibtisam Barakat
Alphabet of Dreams; Susan Fletcher
Anahita's Woven Riddle; Meghan N. Sayres
Copper Sun; Sharon Draper
White Teeth; Zadie Smith
Black Swan Green; David Mitchell
Isabel Allende (lots of choices)
Under the Persimmon Tree by Staple
The God of Small Things by Arudhanti Roy (a personal favorite)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forester (a classic)
In the time of butterflies or How the Garcia Girls lost their accent by Julia Alvarez
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Born Confused by Desai
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Persepolis 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrarp
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Red Scarf Girl by Jiang
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Arthur and George by Barnes
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Afghanistan by Ali
Shattered: Stories of Children and War by Armstrong
The Breadwinner* *by Ellis
Jackal in the Garden: An Encounter with Bihzad* *by Ellis, Deborah
Parvana's Journey* *by Ellis, Deborah
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story* *by Latifa
To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue* *by Rall, Ted.
Refugees by* *Stine, Catherine
Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya
Compiled by
Deborah Motley
Young Adult Services Librarian
Orion Township Public Library