When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
1990 · 1993 edition
400 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 Ungrateful Refugee What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri
Published 2019
368 pages
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman
Published 2017
352 pages
How Dare the Sun Rise Memoirs of a War Child
Abigail Pesta, Sandra Uwiringiyimana
2017 · 2018 edition
304 pages
Last Boat Out of Shanghai The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia
Published 2019
499 pages
Pegasus
Danielle Steel
Published 2014
464 pages
The Schooldays of Jesus
J. M. Coetzee
Published 2016
288 pages
The Chef
Martin Suter, Olivier Mannoni
2010 · 2014 edition
304 pages
God Grew Tired of Us
John Bul Dau, Michael S. Sweeney
Published 2007
287 pages
How I Learned Geography
Uri Shulevitz
Published 2008
32 pages
The Naked Don't Fear the Water An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
Matthieu Aikins
Published 2022
325 pages
City of Thorns Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence
Published 2016
384 pages
Butterfly Yellow
Thanhha Lai
2019 · 2020 edition
296 pages
Lucky Child A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Loung Ung
Published 2005
268 pages
Nujeen One Girl's Incredible Journey from Syria in a Wheelchair
Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb
Published 2016
289 pages
Babylon Sisters A Novel
Pearl Cleage
Published 2005
292 pages
The FitzOsbornes in Exile (The Montmaray Journals)
Michelle Cooper
Published 2011
464 pages
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka A Memoir
Lev Golinkin
Published 2014
307 pages
The Invisible Girls A Memoir
Sarah Thebarge, Kirsten Potter
Published 2013
272 pages
Of Beetles and Angels A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Mawi Asgedom
2001 · 2002 edition
176 pages
Last Hope Island Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Lynne Olson
2017 · 2018 edition
576 pages
The Other Side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo
2000 · 2001 edition
272 pages
The Unwanted A Memoir
Kien Nguyen
Published 2001
343 pages
The Only Road
Alexandra Diaz
Published 2016
308 pages