In This Grave Hour
Jacqueline Winspear
Published 2017
320 pages
The most popular refugees books
Books about refugees tell the stories of people forced to flee. War, persecution or disaster drives them from home, and the story follows the dangerous journey and the uncertain welcome. Novels, memoirs and reporting here give names and faces to people too often seen as numbers.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe, Luis Noriega
Published 2006
320 pages
The Hanging Garden
Ian Rankin, Mark Beal
Published 1998
335 pages
Alicia
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Published 1988
356 pages
No Friend But the Mountains Writing from Manus Prison
Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani
2018 · 2019 edition
398 pages
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
2007 · 2008 edition
600 pages
The Strange Death of Europe Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray
Published 2017
343 pages
I Love Yous Are for White People
Lac Su
Published 2009
272 pages
Parvana's Journey
Deborah Ellis
2002 · 2013 edition
218 pages
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Scott Turow
1997 · 1998 edition
360 pages
Eat the Buddha Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Barbara Demick
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Childhood of Jesus
J. M. Coetzee
2013 · 2021 edition
336 pages
An Ordinary Man
Tom Zoellner, Paul Rusesabagina
Published 2006
264 pages
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Melissa Fleming
Published 2017
274 pages
Munich Signature
Brock Thoene
1990 · 2005 edition
424 pages
Outcasts United A Refugee Soccer Team, an American Town
Warren St. John
Published 2009
307 pages
The Latehomecomer
Kao Kalia Yang
Published 2008
277 pages
Running for My Life One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Lopez Lomong, Mark Tabb
Published 2012
229 pages
Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai
Published 2010
262 pages
Savage Continent Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe
2012 · 2013 edition
460 pages
Butterfly From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph
Yusra Mardini
2018 · 2022 edition
304 pages
Do They Hear You When You Cry?
Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir
Published 1998
528 pages
The Children of Willesden Lane A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II
Lee Cohen, Mona Golabek
2003 · 2017 edition
224 pages
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
Published 1990
368 pages