Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. New York, New York: Riverhead Books, 2017.
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet - sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. Exit West imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.

Henriquez, Cristina. The Book of Unknown Americans: A Novel. New York: Penguin Random House Books, 2014.
A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families whose hopes collide with destiny. A novel that offers a new definition of what it means to be American. Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.

Khakpour, Porachista. The Last Illusion. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
The Last Illusion explores the powers of storytelling while investigating contemporary and classical magical thinking. Its potent lyricism, stylistic inventiveness, and examination of otherness can appeal to readers of Salman Rushdie and Helen Oyeyemi.

Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. New York, New York: Workman Publishing, 2005.
In Laila Lalami’s debut novel, she explores what propels people to risk their lives in search for a better future.

Mbue, Imbole. Behold the Dreamers. New York, New York: Random House, 2016.
In Behold the Dreamers, Mbue explores marriage, immigration, class, race and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.

Reza, Parisa and Adriana Hunter. The Gardens of Consolation. New York, New York: Europa Editions, 2017.
In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi.