Multicultural

For multicultural nonfiction, multicultural children's books, and other multicultural resources see also World Cultures.

AFRICAN

African Authors:
This is a representative list of African authors whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Aboulela, Leila Achebe, Chinua Amadi, Elechi Armah, Ayi Kwei Ata Aidoo, Ama Ba, Mariama Chinodya, Shimmer Darko, Amma Emecheta, Buchi La Guma, Alex Mapanje, Jack Marechera, Dombudzo Mofolo, Thomas Ndibe, Okey Nwapa, Flora Oguine, Ike Pepetela Rifaat, Alifa Salih, Tayeb Soyinka, Wole Tutuola, Amos Zeleza, Tiyambe

(Sudan) (Nigeria) (Nigeria) (Ghana) (Ghana) (Senegal) (Zimbabwe) (Ghana) (Nigeria) (South Africa) (Malawi) (Zimbabwe) (South Africa) (Nigeria) (Nigeria) (Nigeria) (Angola) (Egypt) (Sudan) (Nigeria) (Nigeria) (Zimbabwe)

AFRICAN AMERICAN

African-American Authors:
This is a representative list of African American authors whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Angelou, Maya Ansa, Tina M. Baisden, Michael Baldwin, James Berry, Venise Butler, Octavia Chase-Riboud, Barbara Campbell, Bebe M. Channer, Colin Chesnutt, Charles Cleage, Pearl Cooper, J. California Copeland, Sheila Deberry, Virginia Dickey, Eric J. Ellison, Ralph Gaines, Earnest Giovanni, Nikki Guy, Rosa Haley, Alex Harris, E. Lynn Hill, Donna Himes, Chester Hughes, Langston Hurston, Zora N. Jackson, Sheneska

Joe, Yolanda Jones, Gayl Kitt, Sandra Lamar, Jake Larsen, Nella Lester, Julius Little, Benilde Marshall, Paule McMillan, Rosalyn McMillan, Terry Mitchell, Sharon Morrison, Toni Mosley, Walter Pate, Alexs Reed, Ishmael Roby, Kimberla Sanders, Dori Sinclair, April Skinner, Robert Tyree, Omar Walker, Alice Wesley, Valerie Wright, Richard Yerby, Frank Young, Al

A Sampling of Classic African-American Novels and Popular Contemporary African-American Novels:
http://www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/booklists.html

African-American Mystery Fiction:
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/reading/blackdetectives.html

African-American Romances:
http://www.readersadvice.com/readadv/000280.html, and also:

Bunkley, Anita

Balancing Act fic B94183 ba

Mirrored Life fic B94183 mi

Relative Interest fic B94183 re

Starlight Passage fic B94183 st

Wild Embers fic B94183 wi

Hill, Donna

In My Bedroom fic H645 in

McKinney-Whetstone, Diane

Blues Dancing fic M1583 bl

Leaving Cecil Street fic M1583 le

Tempest Rising fic M1583 te

Tumbling fic M1583 tu

McMillan, Terry

How Stella Got Her Groove Back fic M1676 ho

Waiting to Exhale fic M1676 wa

Thomas, Trisha

Nappily Ever After T4626 na

Roadrunner T4626 ro

Would I Lie to You? T4626 wo

ASIAN

East Asian (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea) Authors:
This is a representative list of authors with an East Asian heritage whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Abe, Kobo Chang, Lan Chang, Leonard Chao, Patricia Chee, Alexander Dai Sijie Furutani, Dale Hwang, Caroline Jen, Gish Jin, Ha Kim, Suki Lee, Chang Rae Lee, Edward Jae-Suk Liu, Aimee Liu, Heng

Louie, David Wong Massey, Sujata Min, Anchee Ozeki, Ruth Park, Frances Takagi, Akimitsu Takashi, Matsuoka Tan, Amy Tsukiyama, Gail Yan, Mo Yamanaka, Lois Ann Yoshikawa, Mako Yoshimoto, Banana Yoshimura, Akira

Southeast Asian (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, and other nations of Indochina) Authors:
This is a representative list of authors with a Southeast Asian heritage whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Alumit, Noel
Bacho, Peter
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata
Ngo, The Vinh
Nguyen, Khai
Nguyen, Kien
Ong, Han
Roley, Brian Ascalon
Somtow, S.P.
Truong, Monique
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta

South Asian (India, Pakistan, and other nations of the Indian subcontinent) Authors: This is a representative list of authors with a South Asian heritage whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Ali, Monica Chandra, Vikram Chaudjuri, Amit Desai, Anita Desai, Kiran Divakaruni, Chitra B. Ganesan, Indira Ghish, Amitav Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Khan, Uzma Aslam Kirchner, Bharti Kunzru, Hari Lahiri, Jhumpa Malladi, Amulya Markandaya, Kamala

Mehta, Gita Mistry, Rohinton Mukherjee, Bharati Naipaal, Shiv Naipaul, V.S. Narayan, R.K. Nigam, Sanjay Roy, Arundhati Rushdie, Salman Selvadurai, Shyam Seth, Vikram Shamsie, Kamila Sidhwa, Bapsi Syal, Meera

If You Liked Memoirs of a Geisha You Might Enjoy:
http://www.multcolib.org/books/lists/memsgeisha.html

A Sampling of Japanese Detective Novels:

Abe, Kobe

The Ruined Map fic A138 ru

Backer, Sara

American Fuji fic B126 am

Eisler, Barry

Hard Rain fic E36573 ha

Rain Fall fic E36573 ra

Furutani, Dale

Death at the Crossroads fic F992 de

Death in Little Tokyo fic F992 dl

Jade Palace Vendetta fic F992 ja

Kill The Shogun fic F992 ki

The Toyotoma Blades fic F992 to

Ikenami, Shotaro

Master Assassin fic I2585 ma

Jones, Susanna

Earthquake Bird fic J7955 ea

Water Lily fic J7955 wa

Kirino, Natsuo

Out fic K589 ou

Lewis, Libby

The Apprentice fic L694 ap

Massey, Sujata

The Bride's Kimono fic M416 br

The Floating Girl fic M416 fg

The Flower Master fic M416 fl

The Salaryman's Wife fic M416 sa

The Samurai's Daughter fic M416 sam

Zen Attitude fic M416 ze

Matsumoto, Seicho

Inspector Imanishi Investigates fic M435 in

Melville, James

The Body Wore Brocade fic M53136 bo

The Bogus Buddah fic M53136 bog

The Death Ceremony fic M53136 dc

Death of a Daimyo fic M53136 de

Go Gently, Gaijin fic M53136 go

Haiku for Hanae fic M53136 ha

Kimono for a Corpse fic M53136 ki

The Ninth Netsuke fic M53136 ni

The Reluctant Ronin fic M53136 re

Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis fic M53136 sa

Sort of Samurai fic M53136 so

Miyabe, Miyake

All She Was Worth fic M6859 al

Moore, Harker

A Cruel Season for Dying fic M8221 cr

A Mourning in Autumn fic M8221 mo

Murakami, Haruki

A Wild Sheep Case fic M9718 wi

Parker, I.J.

Hell Screen fic P397 he

Rashomon Gate fic P2397 ra

Rowland, Laura Joh

Black Lotus fic R8877 bl

Bundori fic R8877 bu

Concubine's Tattoo fic R8877 co

Dragon King's Palace fic R8877 dr

Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria fic R8877 pi

The Samurai's Wife fic R8877 sa

Shinju U fic R8877 sh

The Way of the Traitor fic R8877 wa

Takagi, Akimitsu

Honeymoon to Nowhere fic T139 ho

The Informer fic T139 in

The Tattoo Murder Case fic T139 ta

Togawa, Masako

The Lady Killer fic T645 la

Slow Fuse fic T645 sl

Van de Wetening, JanWillem

Inspector Saito's Small Satori fic V2444 in

Cao, Lan (Vietnamese)

Monkey Bridge fic C235 mo

Chang, Lan (Chinese)

Hunger: A Novella and Stories fic C4567 hu

Chiu, Christina (Chinese)

Troublemakers and other Saints fic C5435 tr

Choi, Susan (Chinese)

American Woman fic C548 am

Jen, Gish (Chinese)

The Love Wife fic J513 lo

Mona In the Promised Land fic J513 mo

Typical American fic J513 ty

Who's Irish? fic J513 wh

Le, Thi Diem Thuy (Vietnamese)

The Gangster We Are All Looking For fic L6477 ga

Lee, Chang-Rae (Japanese)

A Gesture Life fic L47734 ge

Lee, Don (Chinese)

Yellow: Stories fic L4774 ye

Louie, David Wong (Chinese)

The Barbarians Are Coming fic L886 ba

Pangs of Love fic L886 pa

Ng, Mei (Chinese)

Eating Chinese Food Naked fic N573 ea

Otsuka, Julie (Japanese)

When the Emperor Was Divine fic O8867 wh

Ozeki, Ruth L. (Japanese)

All Over Creation fic O993 al

My Year of Meats fic O993 my

Tan, Amy (Chinese)

The Bonesetter's Daughter fic T1597 bo

The Joy Luck Club fic T1597 jo

The Kitchen God's Wife fic T1597 ki

The One Hundred Secret Senses fic T1597 on

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann (Japanese)

Heads by Harry fic Y1913 he

Wild Meat and Bully Burgers fic Y1913 wi

Yoshikawa, Mako (Japanese)

Once Removed fic Y649 o

One Hundred and One Ways fic Y649 on

CARIBBEAN

Selected Novels by Caribbean Authors:

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez (Dominican)
fic A4725 ho

Green Days by the River
by Michael Anthony (Trinidadian)
fic A62857 gr

The Color of Summer
by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuban)
fic A681 co

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
by Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinican)
fic C447 ch

Desirada
by Maryse Conde (Guadalupe)
fic C7445 de

Feeding the Ghosts
by Fred D'Aguiar (Guyanese)
fic D1288 fe

The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat (Haitian)
fic D1934 de

The House on the Lagoon
by Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rican)
fic F382 ho

Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina Garcia (Cuban)
fic G2148 dr

Dirty Havana Trilogy
by Pedro Gutierrez (Cuban)
fic G9843 di

The Salt Roads
by Nilo Hopkinson (Guyana, Trinidad)
fic H797 sa

Autobiography of My Mother
by Jamaica Kincaid (Antiguan)
fic K512 au

The Mystic Masseur
by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidadian)
fic N157 my

The Nature of Blood
by Caryl Phillips (Saint Kitts)
fic P55784 na

The Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys (Dominican)
fic R4795 wi

Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa
Express
by Beatriz Rivera (Cuban)
fic R6214 mi

Precinct Puerto Rico
by Steven Torres (Puerto Rican)
fic T693 pr

HISPANIC

Native Spanish-Speaking Authors:
This is a representative list of native Spanish-speaking authors whose fiction (translated into English) we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Allende, Isabel Alvarez, Julia Amado, Jorge Anaya, Rudolfo Arenas, Reynaldo Bell, Christine Benitez, Sandra Borges, Jorge Luis Castillo, Ana Cervantes, Miguel De Chavez, Denise Cisneros, Sandra Cortazar, Julio De Bernieres, Louis Donoso, Jose

Escandon, Maria Amparo Esquivel, Laura Ferre, Rosario Fuentes, Carlos Garcia, Cristina Garcia Marques, Gabriel Gutierrez, Pedro Hijuelos, Oscar Islas, Arturo Neruda, Pablo Puig, Manuel Ramos, Manuel Rodriquez, Luis J. Santiago, Esmeralda Vargas Llosa, Mario

A Sampling of Popular Hispanic Fiction (as compiled by the Johnson County, Kansas Library):
http://www.jocolibrary.org/index.asp?/DisplayPageID=257

Mystery/Detective Stories by Chicano Authors:

Abella, Alex

Final Acts fic A1414 fi

Anaya, Rudolfo

Jemez Spring fic A5357 je

Rio Grande Fall fic A5357 ri

Shaman Winter fic A5357 sh

Zia Summer fic A5357 zi

Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina

Bitter Sugar fic G2164 bi

Bloody Secrets fic G2164 bl

Bloody Shame fic G2164 bs

Bloody Waters fic G2164 bw

Havana Heat fic G2164 ha

A Miracle in Paradise fic G2164 mi

Limon, Martin

Buddha's Money fic L734 bu

Jade Lady Burning fic L734 ja

Slicky Boys fic L734 sl

Ramos, Manuel

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero fic R1755 ba

Blues for the Buffalo fic R1755 bl

The Last Client of Luis Montez fic R1755 la

Moony's Road to Hell fic R1755 mo

Wishnia, K.J.A.

Blood Lake fic W81495 bl

The Glass Factory fic W81495 gl

Red House fic W81495 re

Soft Money fic W81495 so

Ybarra, Ricardo

Brotherhood of Dolphins fic Y36 br

IRISH

Irish Authors:
This is a representative list of Irish authors whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Beckett, Samuel Binchy, Maeve Bowen, Elizabeth Boyle, Clare Buecher, Frederick Callaghan, Mary Rose Cary, Joyce Conlon-McKenna, Marita Deane, Seamus Delaney, Frank Dillon, Eilis Donleavy, J.P. Doyle, Roddy Edgeworth, Maria Eickhoff, Randy Lee Flanagan, Thomas Gill, Bartholomew Greeley, Andrew Hart, Erin Horsley, Kate Joyce, James Keane, John B. Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Lewis, C.S. Llywelyn, Morgan Lynch, Sarah Kate

Macardle, Dorothy Madden, Deirdre Maturin, C.R. McCafferty, Kate McGill, Patrick Montague, John Moore, Brian Murdoch, Iris Nolan, Christopher O'Brian, Patrick O'Brian, Edna O'Brien, Flann O'Brien, Kate O'Carroll, Brendan O'Faolain, Nuala O'Faolain, Sean O'Flaherty, Liam Osborne-McKnight, Juilene Stoker, Bram Swift, Jonathan Pim, Shelia Toibin, Colm Tremayne, Peter Trevor, William Wilde, Oscar Uris, Leon

Stories of the Irish in America:

Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
by Colin Bateman
fic B3286 of

A Shadow on Summer
by Christy Brown
fic B87744 sh

A Riddle of Stars
by Pierce Butler
fic B98577 ri

Oh, Play That Thing
by Roddy Doyle
fic D7548 oh

The Other Side
by Mary Gordon
fic G664 ot

Younger Than Springtime
by Andrew Greeley
fic G794 yo

Land of a Thousand Dreams
by B.J. Hoff
fic H6982 la

The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
by Sarah Orne Jewett
fic J59 ir

Rackets
by Thomas Kelly
fic K298 ra

The Land of Women
by Regina McBride
fic M11883 la

Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
by Kate McCafferty
fic M1193 te

Terrible Angel: A Novel of Michael Collins in New York
by Dermot McEvoy
fic M142 te

Leaving Ireland
by Ann Moore
fic M82123 le

Lighthouse Keeper
by James Michael Pratt
fic P915 li

Banished Children of Eve
by Peter Quinn
fic Q745 ba

Houseguest
by Agnes Rossi
fic R8325 ho

Crazyladies of Pearl Street
by Trevanian
fic T8118 cr

And All the Saints
by Michael Walsh
fic W225 an

ISLAMIC

Stories Exploring the Islamic Woman's Experience:

Crescent
by Diana Abu-Jabar
fic A16546 cr

Year of the Elephant
by Layla Abu Zayd
fic A1567 ye

Moghul Buffet
by Cheryl Benard
fic B456 mo

Hayati, My Life
by Miriam Cooke
fic C773 ha

West of the Jordan
by Laila Halaby
fic H1566 we

Halide's Gift
by Frances Kazan
fic K23766 ha

Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
fic K4514 sw

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
by Hilary Mantel
fic M2915 ei

The Fortune Catcher
by Susanne Pari
fic P2296 fo

Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
by Alifa Rifaat
fic R5645 di

Pretty Birds
by Scott Simon
fic S59668 pr

In the Eye of the Sun
by Ahdaf Soueif
fic S7197 in

Seraglio
by Janet Wallach
fic W195 se

Virgins of Paradise
by Barbara Wood
fic W872 vi

JEWISH

This is a representative list of Jewish interest fiction in our collections (novels in which the Jewish experience is a significant element of the story). If you would like to learn more about this genre, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

The Romance Reader
by Pearl Abraham
fic A15947 ro

The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
fic B4466 ad

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
fic C4285 am

Just Revenge
by Alan Dershowitz
fic D4387 ju

Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Foer
fic F6548 ev

Bee Season
by Mila Goldberg
fic G61798 be

Mazel
by Rebecca Goldstein
fic G62455 ma

Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
fic K3335 sc

The Inn at Lake Devine
by Elinor Lipman
fic L765 i

Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud
fic M236 co

Collected Stories
by Grace Paley
fic P1582 co

The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
fic P8646 ch

Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
fic R84515 ca

Portnoy's Complaint
by Phillip Roth
fic R8454 po

The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
fic S344 re

The Illuminated Soul
by Aryeh Lev Stollman
fic S8759 il

Mila 18
by Leon Uris
fic U76 mi

The Fifth Son
by Elie Wiesel
fic W651 fi

Marjorie Morningstar
by Herman Wouk
fic W9384 ma

How I Found America
by Anzia Yezierska
fic Y493 ho

The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature, as Published by the National Yiddish Book Center:
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/+13

NATIVE AMERICAN

Native American Authors:
This is a representative list of Native American authors whose fiction we carry in our collections. If you would like to learn more about these authors and others, please ask a librarian to show you our reference and/or online resources.

Sherman Alexie D.L. Birchfield Joseph Bruchac Robert J. Conley Michael Dorris Louise Erdrich Diane Glancy Linda Hogan Thomas King D'Arcy McNickle Mardi Medawar N. Scott Momaday Simon J. Ortiz Louis Owens W. S. Penn Susan Power William Sanders Leslie M. Silko Martin Cruz Smith Gerald Vizenor James Welch

(Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) (Choctaw) (Abenaki) (Cherokee) (Modoc) (Chippewa) (Cherokee) (Chikasaw) (Cherokee) (Cree/Salish/Kootenai) (Cherokee) (Kiowa) (Acoma Pueblo) (Choctaw/Cherokee) (Nez Perce/Osage) (Dakota Sioux) (Cherokee) (Laguna Pueblo) (Pueblo/Yaqui) (Chipewa) (Blackfoot/Gros Ventre)

A Sampling of Contemporary Native American Fiction (as compiled by the Durham County Library):
www.durhamcountylibrary.org/reader/nativeamer.htm

Native American Mysteries: Mysteries featuring Native American tribes and/or Native American detectives, usually contemporary, and usually set in the Western U.S.:
http://www.readersadvice.com/readadv/000302.html

Also:

Hager, Jean

The Fire Carrier fic H1447 fi

Ghostland fic H1447 gh

Masked Dancers fic H1447 ma

Night Walkers fic H1447 ni

Ravenmocker fic H1447 ra

The Redbirds fic H1447 re

Seven Black Stones fic H1447 se

The Spirit Caller fic H1447 sp

Yellow-Flower Moon fic H1447 ye

Jones, Stan

Shaman Pass fic J794 sh

White Sky, Black Ice fic J794 wh

Krueger, William Kent

Boundary Waters fic K939 bo

Iron Lake fic K939 ir

Mercy Falls fic K939 me

Purgatory Ridge fic K939 pu

NEW ORLEANS CULTURES

Cultures of New Orleans:
http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/place/neworleans.html