| Title | Author | Country of Origin |
| A Fine Balance | Rohontin Mistry | India |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie | China |
| Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa |
| The Gardener of Baghdad | Ahmad Ardalan | Iraq |
| There There | Tommy Orange | Cheyenne-Arapaho-American |
| In the Country of Men | Hisham Matar | Libya |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | Korean-American |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Chicana (Mexican and American) |
| In the Time of Butterflies | Julia Alvarez | Dominican Republic |
|
The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga | Indo-Australian |
| A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening | Mario de Carvalho | Portuguese |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche | Nigerian |
| The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak | Turkish-British |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | Greek |
| In the Shadow of the Banyan |
Vaddey Ratner |
Cambodian |
When we read fiction, we can become someone we'd never otherwise have the chance to become - another gender, another age, someone of another nationality or another circumstance. We can be an explorer, a scientist, an artist, a young and single mother or an orphaned cabin boy or a soldier.
When we take off the guise again - set down the book - we walk away changed. We understand things we didn't understand before, and that shapes our worldview.
Adapted from https://medium.com/the-mission/the-importance-of-reading-fiction-7f57546a229b.
Multicultural fiction books are fascinating looking glasses into disparate cultures and perspectives. There is beauty in diversity and these books bridge boundaries and shatter stereotypes. They reveal that as human beings, we experience the same feelings and emotions and when stripped bare of our external differences, we are more alike than we are different.
Richland Library, Richland County, South Carolina <https://www.richlandlibrary.com/blog/2018-11-13/multicultural-fiction-adults>
Aside from autobiographies and memoirs, the titles included in this guide are primarily works of literary fiction. The emphases in these works is on style and depth and character development. Generally, plot takes a back seat to these elements.
Multicultural literature, in most cases, describes how people live in different parts of the world. Reading this type of fiction often allows us to learn about different cultures and beliefs. It usually presents a fairly accurate representation of the culture it portrays and is most likely to avoid stereotypes, or beliefs about a particular group that are oversimplified or based upon generalizations.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/multicultural-literature-definition-books-importance.html
Stereotypes are characteristics imposed upon groups of people because of their race, nationality, and sexual orientation. These characteristics tend to be oversimplifications of the groups involved, and while some people truly do embody the traits of their stereotype, they are not necessarily representative of all people within that group. Stereotypes are not always accurate and, even if positive, can be harmful.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-stereotype-2834956