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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
Michael Dorris |
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
Roddy Doyle |
The Commitments |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Peter Mayle |
Hotel Pastis |
Mardi Oakley Medawar |
The Fort Larned Incident |
Gita Mehta |
Raj |
Anne Michaels |
Fugitive Pieces |
Anchee Min |
Wind Ginger |
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 |
Walter Mosley |
Devil in a Blue Dress |
Haruki Murakami |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
Bharati Mukherjee |
Jasmine |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Emile Zola |
Nana |

Booklists









