• Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu
• Escape From Slavery by Francis Bok
• The Gangster We Are All Looking For Lê Thi Diem Thúy
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian
• My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• Olive Witch: A Memoir by Abeer Hoque
• Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Pretty much anything by Bharati Mukherjee, but these especially:
• Jasmine
• Three Sisters From Calcutta
• The Management of Grief
