Book Recommendations
Stay connected with Exodus during this time of social distancing by reading about the refugee and immigrant experience. We have compiled a list of some of our favorite books for adults and children.
Books for Adults
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Brothers of the Gun – A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian by Yusra Mardini
City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
Love Thy Neighbor – A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America by Ayaz Virji
Once We Were Strangers by Shawn Smucker
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Bee Keeper of Aleppo: A Novel by Christy Lefteri
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
To Stop a Warlord by Shannon Sedgwick Davis
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Graphic Novels
Ilegal by Eoin Colfer
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh
Zenobia By Morten Durr
When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed (Published April 14, 2020)
Books for Young Adults
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
Escape from Aleppo by N. H. Senzai
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
Books for Children
Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Williams and Khadra Mohammed
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
I’m New Here by Anne Sibley O’Brien
