Refugees


When Stars Are Scattered
Refugee
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Exit West
The Journey
Lubna and Pebble
Little Bee
What Is the What
A Long Walk to Water
Inside Out & Back Again
Sea Prayer
Other Words for Home
The Boy at the Back of the Class
The Night Diary
Wishes
Luck Follows the Brave by Aida ŠibićThe Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy LefteriThe Ungrateful Refugee by Dina NayeriUndocumented by Aviva ChomskyIn the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
Stories of refugees in Europe/US
8 books — 4 voters
Awakened by Love by Azin SametipourWhat Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellAnissa of Syria by Zack LoveUnspoken Rules by Lora InakMahtab's Story by Libby Gleeson
Migrant Novels
12 books — 11 voters

Room by Emma DonoghueThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyWives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
40 Books by Oppressed People
68 books — 15 voters
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Last Secret of The Soul by Stephen P.   SmithMy Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-JacksonThe Aftermath by Rhidian BrookThe Story Keeper by Fred   Feldman
Post-Holocaust
34 books — 19 voters

#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawThe War on Poverty by Carolee LaineThe Syrian Conflict by Michael Capek
Special Reports series
44 books — 8 voters

Warsan Shire
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory. I watch the news and my mouth becomes a sink full of blood. The lines, the forms, the people at the desks, the calling cards, the immigration officers, the looks on the street, the cold settling deep into my bones, the Englis ...more
Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Carlos Fuentes
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos Fuentes

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