The Unwanted A Memoir
Kien Nguyen
Published 2001
343 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 Only Road
Alexandra Diaz
2016 · 2017 edition
336 pages
Islands at the End of the World
Austin Aslan
2014 · 2015 edition
384 pages
What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper
Published 2018
272 pages
The Girl from Junchow
Kate Furnivall
Published 2009
512 pages
Captive Witness
Leslie McFarlane
1981 · 2005 edition
186 pages
My Fourth Time, We Drowned Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Sally Hayden
Published 2022
448 pages
A Thousand Sisters My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
Lisa J. Shannon
Published 2010
335 pages
The White Pearl
Kate Furnivall
2011 · 2012 edition
448 pages
Good Braider
Terry Farish
2012 · 2014 edition
217 pages
War Child
Emmanuel Jal, Ademola Adeyemo
Published 2009
288 pages
Freakling
Lana Krumwiede
2012 · 2014 edition
320 pages
I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Marjorie Agosin
Published 2014
454 pages
Across Many Mountains Three Daughters of Tibet
Yangzom Brauen
Published 2011
324 pages
50 Children One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Steven Pressman
Published 2014
320 pages
My Family for the War
Anne C. Voorhoeve
Published 2012
416 pages
By the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah
2001 · 2002 edition
245 pages
Children of the River
Linda Crew
Published 1991
240 pages
The Fortunate Ones A Novel
Ellen Umansky
Published 2017
336 pages
The Fox Hunt
Mohammed Al Samawi
Published 2018
336 pages
After Auschwitz
Eva Schloss
Published 2013
336 pages
The People Smuggler The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia'
Robin de Crespigny
Published 2012
351 pages
The Far Country
Nevil Shute
1971 · 2009 edition
248 pages
The Girl Who Beat ISIS Farida's Story
Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann
2016 · 2017 edition
224 pages