Multicultural Fiction

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Joan Abelove

Go and Come Back

Diana Abu-Jaber

Arabian Jazz

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Elizabeth Adler

Fortune is a Woman

Kathleen Alcala

Spirits of the Ordinary

Sherman Alexie

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune
The House of Spirits

Julia Alvarez

Before We Were Free

Rudolfo A. Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima

Piers Anthony

Shame of Man

Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

Rosemary Aubert

Free Reign

Nurjehan Aziz, ed.

Her Mother's Ashes, 2

Adam Bagdasarian

The Forgotten Fire

Mark Behr

The Smell of Apples

Eleanor Taylor Bland

Scream in Silence

Giles Blunt

Forty Words for Sorrow

Andre Brink

An Act of Terror

Connie Briscoe

Sisters and Lovers

Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

Bonnie Burnard

A Good House

Bebe Moore Campbell

Singing in the Comeback Choir

Albert Camus

The Plague

Lan Cao

Monkey Bridge

Peter Carey

The True History of the Kelly Gang

Charlotte Carter

Coq Au Vin

Omar S. Castaneda

Among the Volcanoes

Patrick Chamoiseau

Texaco

Denise Chavez

Loving Pedro Infante

Frank Chin

Donald Duk

Wayson Choy

The Jade Peony

Hsaio-lung Chiu

Death of a Red Heroine

Denise Cisneros

Caramelo
The House on Mango Street

Breena Clarke

River, Cross My Heart

James Clavell

Noble House

Pearl Cleage

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

Matt Cohen

Elizabeth and After

Don Coldsmith

The Long Journey Home

Claire Cook

Must Love Dogs

Edwidge Danticat

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Kavita Daswani

For Matrimonial Purposes

Robertson Davies

The Deptford Trilogy

Seamus Deane

Reading in the Dark

Tom Deitz

Above the Lower Sky

Charles De Lint

Someplace to be Flying

Anita Desai

Fasting, Feasting

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

Eric Jerome Dickey

Between Lovers

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Mistress of Spices
Sister of My Heart

Michael Dorris

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Roddy Doyle

The Commitments
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Margaret Drabble

The Seven Sisters

Alexander Dumas

Camille

David Anthony Durham

Gabriel's Story

Kathleen Eagle

Night Falls Like Silk

Carol Edgarian

Rise the Euphrates

Stanley Elkin

Mrs. Ted Bliss

Deborah Ellis

The Breadwinner
Parvana's Journey

Ralph Ellison

The Invisible Man

Howard Engel

There Was an Old Woman

Louise Erdrich

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate

Nuruddin Farah

Secrets

Nancy Farmer

A Girl Named Disaster

Rosario Ferre

Eccentric Neighborhoods

Timothy Findley

The Piano Man's Daughter
Pilgrim

Richard Flanagan

Death of a River Guide

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Lisa Huang Fleischman

Dream of the Walled City

Susan Fletcher

Shadow Spinner

Suzanne Frank

Sunrise on the Mediterranean

Joaquin Fraxedas

The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera

John Fullerton

The Monkey House

Alberto Fuguet

Bad Vibes

Ernest J. Gaines

A Gathering of Old Men

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

Bitter Sugar

Paul L. Gaus

Clouds Without Rain

Donna Gershten

Kissing the Virgin's Mouth

Bartholomew Gill

The Death of an Irish Tinker

Leslie Glass

Burning Time

Myla Goldberg

The Bee Season

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

Francisco Goldman

The Long Night of White Chickens

Nadine Gordimer

July's People

Allegra Goodman

Kaaterskill Falls

Heather Graham

Runaway

Gunther Grass

The Tin Drum

Andrew Greeley

Irish Eyes

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise

David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars

Gary Hardwick

Supreme Justice

Kathryn Harrison

The Binding Chair, or, a Visit From the Foot Emancipation Society

Donald Harstad

A Long December

Melinda Haynes

Mother of Pearl

Carl Hiaasen

Lucky You

Tomson Highway

Kiss of the Fur Queen

Oscar Hijuelos

Mr. Ives' Christmas
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Minfong Ho

Rice Without Rain

Peter Hoeg

The History of Danish Dreams

Cecelia Holland

Pacific Street

Tess Uriza Holthe

When the Elephants Dance

Hugh Holton

Time of the Assassins

Nalo Hopkinson

Skin Folk

Richard Hoyt

Bigfoot

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Zora Neale Hurston

The Eyes Were Watching God

Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

Sebastian Japrisot

A Very Long Engagement

Gish Jen

Typical American

Ha Jin

Waiting

Wayne Johnston

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Lynn Joseph

The Color of My Words

Ken Kesey

Last Go Round

Jamaica Kincaid

Annie John

Thomas King

Medicine River
Truth and Bright Water

William Kinsolving

The Diplomat's Daughter

Bharti Kirchner

Shiva Dancing

Joy Kogawa

Itsuka

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Katherine Kurtz

St. Patrick's Gargoyle

Lorraine Lachs

Flowers for Mei-Ling

Rosalind Laker

To Dance With Kings

Mercedes Lambert

Soultown

Margaret Laurence

A Jest of God

Chang-rae Lee

A Gesture Life
Native Speaker

Gus Lee

China Boy

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Ella Leffland

Breath and Shadows

Craig Lesley

Winterkill

Morgan Llywelyn

The Last Prince of Ireland

Bette Bao Lord

Spring Moon

Earl Lovelace

Salt

David Wong Louie

The Barbarians are Coming

Henry Luk

The Heir

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall On Your Knees

David Macfarlane

Summer Gone

John McGahern

By the Lake

Bernard MacLaverty

Grace Notes

Alastair MacLeod

No Great Mischief

Terry McMillan

Waiting to Exhale

Robert MacNeil

Burden of Desire

Najib Mahfuz

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
Palace Walk

David Malouf

Remembering Babylon

Rani Manicka

The Rice Mother

Francesca Marciano

Casa Rossa

Irene Marcuse

Guilty Mind

Paule Marshall

The Fisher King

Sujata Massey

The Bride's Kimono
The Floating Girl

Peter Mayle

Hotel Pastis

Mardi Oakley Medawar

The Fort Larned Incident

Gita Mehta

Raj
A River Sutra

Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces

Anchee Min

Wind Ginger
Becoming Madame Mao

Pankaj Mishra

The Romantics

Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance

N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn

Brian Moore

Black Robe

Harker Moore

A Cruel Season for Dying

Toni Morrison

Beloved
Jazz

Walter Mosley

Devil in a Blue Dress

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Bharati Mukherjee

Jasmine
Leave It To Me

Henry Mynton

The Pachinko Woman

An Na

A Step From Heaven

V. S. Naipaul

A Bend in the River

Lensey Namioka

An Ocean Apart, A World Away
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

Donna Jo Napoli

Daughter of Venice

Lillian Nattel

The River Midnight

Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place

Christopher Nolan

The Banyan Tree

Sigrid Nunez

For Rouenna

Naomi Shihab Nye

Habibi

Edna O'Brien

House of Splendid Isolation

Brendan O'Carroll

The Mammy

Nuala O'Faolain

My Dream of You

Tillie Olsen

Tell Me a Riddle

Michael Ondaatje

Anil's Reign
The English Patient

Han Ong

Fixer Chao

Orhan Pamuk

My Name is Red

Susanne Pari

The Fortune Catcher

Julie Parsons

The Courtship Gift

Katherine Paterson

Of Nightingales That Weep

Eliot Pattison

The Skull Mantra

Iain Pears

The Dream of Scipio

Susan Power

The Grass Dancer

Ann Prospero

Almost Night

Ronald Querry

Bad Medicine

Ishmael Reed

Japanese by Spring

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Magic City

Mordecai Richler

Barney's Version

Eden Robinson

Monkey Beach

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Casting the First Stone

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

Jean-Christophe Rufin

The Abyssinian

Salman Rushdie

Haroun and the Sea Stories
The Moor's Last Sigh

Mary Ryan

Glenallen

Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza Rising

Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche: a Romance of the French Revolution

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Age of Reason

David Schmahmann

Empire Settings

Lisa See

Interior

Annemarie Selinko

Desiree

Shyam Selvadurai

Funny Boy

Hanan Shaykh

Women of Sand and Myrrh

Carol Shields

Stone Diaries

Julie Shigekuni

A Bridge Between Us

Edwin Shrake

The Borderland

Susan Shwartz

Shards of Empire

Leslie Silko

Almanac of the Dead
Gardens in the Dunes

Susan R. Sloan

An Isolated Incident

Julie Smith

The Kindness of Strangers

Ahdaf Soueif

The Map of Love

Stendhal

The Red and the Black

Suzanne Staples

Haveli
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
Shiva's Fire

Starhawk

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Marisa Kantor Stark

Bring Us the Old People

Katherine Stone

Pearl Moon

Manil Suri

The Death of Vishnu

Susanna Tamaro

Follow Your Heart

Amy Tan

The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Joy Luck Club

Ann Tatlock

All the Way Home

Madeleine Thien

Simple Recipes

Pamela Thomas-Graham

A Darker Shade of Crimson

Tomek Tryzna

Miss Nobody

Colm Toibin

The Blackwater Lightship

Peter Tremayne

The Subtle Serpent

Gail Tsukiyama

Women of the Silk

Harry Turtledove

Colonization - Second Contact

Leon Uris

The Haj

Jane Urquhart

Away

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Storyteller

M. G. Vassanji

The Book of Secrets

Alfredo Vea Jr.

La Maravilla

Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Scott Walker, ed.

Stories from the American Mosaic

Katherine Weber

The Music Lesson

James Welch

Fool's Crow
The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Christopher West

Third Messiah

Dorothy West

The Wedding

Morris L. West

The Tower of Babel

Niall Williams

Four Letters of Love

Tim Winton

Dirt Music

Paula L. Woods

Inner City Blues

Eric Wright

Death on the Rocks

Irene Zahava, ed.

My Father's Daughter
My Mother's Daughter

Emile Zola

Nana

 

 

 

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