Below is a gathered list of novels from the 1990s that touch upon themes of migration.
| Ruby by Rosa Guy | 1991 |
| The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur | 1991 |
| Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia | 1992 |
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler | 1993 |
| Reef by Romesh Gunesekera | 1995 |
| When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai | 1995 |
| Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt | 1996 |
| The Salaryman’s Wife by Sujata Massey | 1997 |
| Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri | 1999 |
| The Last Life by Claire Messud | 1999 |
| Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende | 1999 |