Academic Resources
- Bosnian Refugees in America. By Reed Coughlan and Judith Owens-Manley
- Global Changes in Asylum Regimes: Closing Doors. By Daniele Joly (editor)
- Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return. By Fran Markowitz and Anders Stefansson (editors)
- Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights. By Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, and Gil Loescher (editors)
Autobiography
- A Long Way Gone. By Ishmael Beah
- Achieving Against the Odds. By Helene Ramazani
- Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel. By Alek Wek
- The Bite of the Mango. By Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland (Voices of Courage Honoree by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children)
- The Day of the Pelican. By Katherine Paterson
- The Eaves of Heaven: A life in Three Wars. By Andrew X. Pham
- Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country. By Mike Kim
- Escape from slavery the true story of my ten years in captivity--and my journey to freedom in America. By Francis Bok
- From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey. By Pascal Khoo Thwe
- From There to Here: 16 Tales of Immigration to Britain, The Second Decibel Penguin Prize Anthology. By Arts Council England (editor)
- God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir. By John Bul Dau and Michael S. Sweeney
- I Live Here. By Mia Kirshner, J.B. Mackinnon, Paul Shoebridges, and Michael Simons
- I Love You’s Are for White People: A Memoir. By Lac Su
- Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West. By Zoya Phan and Damien Lewis
- No Dream Beyond My Reach: One Woman’s Remarkable Journey from Cambodian Refugee to American MD. By Sopheap Ly
- Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945. By Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg
- The Shan: Refugees without a Camp - An English Teacher in Thailand and Burma. By Bernice Koehler Johnson
- Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President and Won. By Brandt Goldstein
- This Flowing Towards Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers. By Marilyn Lacey and Helen Prejean
- Under the Persimmon Tree. By Suzanne Fisher Staples
- The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood. By Kien Nguyen
- When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. By Chanrithy Him
- White Pearl and I: A Memoir of a Political Refugee. By Svetlana Kim
- Autobiographical Notes: A Centennial Edition. By Albert Einstein
- Burma Chronicles. By Guy Deslisle
- Child Soldier. By China Keitetsi
- In The Land of The Magic Soldiers. By Daniel Bergner
- The Middle of Everywhere. By Mary Pipher, PhD
- My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. By The Dalai Lama
- Notes From My Travels. By Angelina Jolie
- Nowhere Man. By Aleksandar Hemon
- Refugee. By Adnan Mahmutovic
- Slave. By Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis
- So Many Things I Could Have Written. By Asha Mohamed
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. By Anne Fadiman
- Standing On My Own Two Feet. By Faizia Zaman,
- From The Land of Green Ghosts. By Pascal Khoo Thwe
- They Poured Down Fire on Us from the Sky. By Alphonsian Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, and Judy A. Bernstein
- United Stress of America (in Serbo-Croation language only). By Dalibor Bilic
- What is the What. By Dave Eggers
Biography
- Andy Grove: The Life and Times of An American Business Icon. By Richard Tedlow
- The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. By Kati Marton
- The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day. By Elie Wiesel
- My Flag Grew Stars: World War II Refugees’ Journey to America. By Kitty Coggins
- Strength in What Remains. By Tracy Kidder
Fiction
- By the Sea. By Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002 (Zanzibar)
- Call Me By My True Names. By Thich Nhat Hanh
- Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. By Robert Olin Butler
- Kite Runner. By Khaled Hosseini
- Little Bee. By Chris Cleave. Story of a Nigerian asylee in England.
- Minaret: A Novel. By Leila Aboulela
- When the Stars Fall to Earth: A Novel of Africa. By Rebecca Tinsley. Story of 5 young Darfuri refugees as they flee their villages.
Non-Fiction
- Artists in Exile: How Refugees from 20th Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts. By Joseph Horowitz
- Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America. By Philip G. Schrag
- Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad
- Becoming a City of Sanctuary. By Craig Barnett and Inderjit Bhogal
- Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees. By Deborah Ellis
- Courageous Journey: Walking the ‘Lost Boys’ Path from Sudan to America. By Barbara Youree, Ayuel Leek, and Beny Ngor
- The Empire Trauma: In Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. By Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman, and Rachel Gomme
- End of Hell: One Woman’s Struggle to Survive Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. By Denise Affonco and Jon Swain
- For Us Surrender is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War. By Mac McLelland
- Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World. By Richard F. Mollica
- Hmong in Minnesota. By Chia Vang
- Human Cargo. By Caroline Moorehead
- Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East. By Joseph Sassoon
- New Londoners: Reflections on Home. Photo Voice, UK
- Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individuals Fates and Global Impact. By Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
- Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota. By Jon D. Holtzman and Nancy Foner
- New Mainers: Portraits of Our Immigrant Neighbors. By Pat Nyhan
- Out of Iraq: Refugees’ Stories in Words, Paintings, and Music. By Sybella Wilkes
- Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India. By Audrey Prost
- Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. By Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman, and Gary Troeller
- Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa. By David Hollenbach
- Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century. By Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman
- Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death. By Josephe Marie Flynn. A powerful account of the long and painful journey toward asylum for two Congolese refugees
- Safe Haven?: A History of Refugees in America. By David Haines
- Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking. By Louisa Waugh
- Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile. By Khaled Hosseini and Zalmai
- Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the US. By Sucheng Chan
- The Economic Life of Refugees. By Karen Jacobsen
- The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000. By Solomon Addis Getahun
- The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town. By Mary Pipher. How Lincoln, NE was transformed by refugee resettlement.
- Where the Rivers Meet: A Tibetan Refugee Community’s Struggle to Survive in the High Mountains of Nepal. By Clint Rogers
- Website: Bhutanese Refugees:The Story of a Forgotten People.
- Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America. By Aihwa Ong
- Coming Home? Refugees, Migrants, and Those who Stayed Behind. By Lynellyn Long and Ellen Oxfeld (editors)
- Darfur Diaries Stories of Survival. By Marlowe, Jen, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro
- First they Killed my Father. By Loung Ung
- Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps. By Julie Peteet
- Lost Boys of Sudan. By Mark Bixler
- Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference. By Warren St. John
- The Politics and Ethics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the response to Refugees. By Matthew Gibney
- Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. By Liisa H. Malkki
- Refugees in a Global Era. By Philip Marfleet
- Refugee Women. By Susan Forbes Martin
Titles for Children & Youth
- Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees. By Deborah Ellis
- Drita, My Homegirl. By Jenny Lombard
- Four Feet Two Sandals. By Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammad, and Doug Chayka
- Gervelie’s Journey: A Refugee Diary. By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young, and June Allan
- How I Learned Geography. By Uri Shulevitz
- How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story. By Eve Bunting and Beth Peck
- Muktar and the Camels. By Janet Graber and Scott Mack
- My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary. By Nadja Halilbegovich
- Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba. By Margarita Engle
- Kiss the Dust. By Elizabeth Laird
- Mai Ya’s Long Journey. By Sheila Cohen
- Making it Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee. By Beverly Naidoo
- Refugee Boy. By Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Silence Seeker. By Ben Morley
- The Clay Marble. By Minfong Ho
- The Other Side of Truth. By Beverly Naidoo
- The Silver Sword. By Ian Serraillier
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. By Judith Kerr
- Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. By Zlata Filipovic