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Award Winning Books About Immigration and Exile
66 books from 16 lists, 1906 to 2025
Leaving one country for another is the story behind a striking share of prize winning writing, partly because so many of the writers lived it. These books cover arrival and what comes after, the language that has to be learned and the home that stops being home.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2025 The Emperor of Gladness
- 2017 Pachinko
- 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- 2003 The Kite Runner
- 1989 The Joy Luck Club
- 1918 My Ántonia
- 1906 The Jungle
- 2024 My Friends
- 2022 Bliss Montage: Stories
- 2019 Everything Inside
- 2013 Americanah
- 2011 Binocular Vision
- 2001 Austerlitz
- 1988 The Middleman and Other Stories
- 1975 Ragtime
- 2024 Soldiers and Kings
- 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana
- 1981 China Men
- 1977 World of Our Fathers
- 2023 Prophet Song
- 2006 The Inheritance of Loss
- 1971 In a Free State
- 2022 The Wrong End of the Telescope
- 2019 Call Me Zebra
- 2017 Behold the Dreamers
- 2015 Preparation for the Next Life
- 2012 The Buddha in the Attic
- 2009 Netherland
- 1987 Soldiers in Hiding
- 2020 How to Wash a Heart
- 2020 The End of the Myth
- 2008 Desert
- 1966 Only Yesterday
- 1933 The Life of Arseniev
- 2008 The Road Home
- 2004 Small Island
- 2000 When I Lived in Modern Times
- 1997 Fugitive Pieces
- 2000 In America
- 1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
- 1959 The Magic Barrel