Books are my love language. Here are a few favorites on multicultural topics that I hope you’ll enjoy!
Novels and Memoirs
(clockwise from top left)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Happy Birthday or Whatever by Annie Choi
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (center)
Immigration
Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, & Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang Yang
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible by Daniel Carroll
Translation Nation: American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States by Hector Tobar
Multicultural Parenting
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood
7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child by Naomi Steiner
Faith and Justice
(clockwise from top left)
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by Randolph Richards and Brandon O’Brien
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
Freedom of Simplicity by Richard Foster
Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life by Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, and Douglas Morrison.
Toxic Charity by Robert Lupton
What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Out of Solitude by Henri Nouwen
Overrated: Are We More In Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World by Eugene Cho (center)
Race and Culture
Being White by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp
Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson
Spanglish Kiddos
Historias de Jesús / The Jesus Storybook Bible
Queen Esther Helps God’s People / La reina Ester ayuda al pueblo de Dios