Start with high-confidence cultural heritage fiction books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum
Ramadan Ramsey
Louis Edwards
Banana Bottom
Claude McKay
The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Watermelon Nights
Greg Sarris, Reginald Dyck
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Celtic Tales
Kate Forrester
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson-Davies
The Last Tea Bowl Thief
Jonelle Patrick
Hungry Hearts
Anzia Yezierska
The Wreck
Dewe Gorode, Déwé Gorodé
Laughing Boy
Oliver La Farge
