Refugee Week reading suggestions

Refugee Week is 16-22 June 2025. This year's theme is 'Community as a Superpower'.

Titles for Adults

A Man of Two Faces - Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri

Dust Child - Phan Qué̂ Ma Nguyẽ̂n

Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish Refugee Story - Andrew Hesketh

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Hope Not Fear - Hassan Akkad

In Every Mirror She's Black - Lola Akinmade-Akerstrom

The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak

The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee - Gulwali Passarlay

My Fourth Time, We Drowned - Sally Hayden

My Friends - Hisham Matar

Peach Blossom Spring - Melissa Fu

People Like Us - Hashi Mohamed

Refugees: A Very Short Introduction - Gil Loescher

Sea Prayer - Khaled Hosseini

Small Island - Andrea Levy

This is Europe - Ben Judah

We Are Displaced - Malala Yousafzai

The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende

Titles for Teenagers

Alpha: Abidian to Gare du Nord - Bessora and Barroux

Boy, Everywhere - A.M. Dassu

The Crossing - Manjeet Mann

Hidden - Miriam Halahmy

Seven Million Sunflowers - Malcolm Duffy

The Things We Leave Behind - Clare Furniss

Titles for Children

Adnan: The Boy Who Helped His Mummy Remember - Mark Arrigo and Steven Chatterton

The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q. Rauf

The Day War Came - Nicola Davies

Everybody's Welcome - Patricia Hegarty

Forced to Flee: Refugee Children Drawing on their Experiences - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Girl at the Front of the Class - Onjali Q. Rauf

Home is Where My Heart Is - Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Alice Courtley

If Polar Bears Disappeared - Lily Williams

The Journey - Francesca Sanna

Leila and the Blue Fox - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Lily and the Polar Bears - Jion Shelbani

Lubna and Pebble - Wendy Meddour

Me and My Fear - Francesca Sanna

The Power of Welcome - Marie Bamyani

Refguees and Homelands - Louise Spilsbury

Safiyyah's War - Hiba Noor Khan

Saving the Butterfly - Helen Cooper

To the Other Side - Erika Meza

Under the Red Shawl - Vikki Conley

Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Refugees - Katie Daynes and Ashe de Sousa

What is a Refugee? - Elise Gravel

When Stars Are Scattered - Victoria Jamieson

Who Are Refugees and Migrants? - Michael Rosen and Annemarie Young

Xanthe and the Ruby Crown - Jasbinder Bilan

You Are Life - Phi Bao