A Faraway Island
Annika Thor
Published 2009
256 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 Far Away Brothers
Lauren Markham
Published 2017
320 pages
Star Wars
Elizabeth Wein
Published 2017
256 pages
German Boy A Child in War
Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Published 2001
448 pages
The Bridge at Andau
James Albert Michener
Published 1975
254 pages
Under the Same Sky From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
Joseph Kim
Published 2015
274 pages
Refugee 87
Ele Fountain, Karl Beth
2018 · 2019 edition
256 pages
Now Is the Time for Running
Michael Williams
Published 2011
233 pages
The Far Side of the Sky
Daniel Kalla
2011 · 2013 edition
499 pages
Golden Earrings
Belinda Alexandra
2011 · 2013 edition
595 pages
The Song Poet A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Published 2016
271 pages
Black Rock White City
A. S. Patric
2015 · 2017 edition
240 pages
Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto
1992 · 2006 edition
256 pages
The Journey That Saved Curious George The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey
Louise Borden
2005 · 2010 edition
70 pages
Welcome to the New World
Jake Halpern, Michael Sloan
Published 2020
192 pages
Drita, My Homegirl
Jenny Lombard
Published 2006
176 pages
Paper Love Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
Sarah Wildman
Published 2014
386 pages
Girl Underground
Morris Gleitzman
2004 · 2005 edition
184 pages
The Lightless Sky
Gulwali Passarlay
2015 · 2016 edition
384 pages
Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples
2005 · 2008 edition
304 pages
Dark at the Crossing
Elliot Ackerman
Published 2017
272 pages
The Train
Georges Simenon
1984 · 2011 edition
144 pages
The Optician of Lampedusa
Emma Jane Kirby
Published 2016
117 pages
Fire Road
Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley Wiersma
Published 2017
336 pages