📚 Refugees

Forced movement: asylum, the camps, and the first-person accounts of people carrying what they could.

Below are the 26 works carrying the subject refugees in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Bridge at Andau	James A. Michener	1957	27
	In Order to Live	Yeonmi Park	2015	13
	The refugee in international law	Guy S. Goodwin-Gill	1983	10
	When heaven and earth changed places	Le Ly Hayslip	1989	9
	The girl who smiled beads	Clemantine Wamariya	2018	8
	Lucky Child	Loung Ung	2005	7
	Infidel	Ayaan Hirsi Ali	2007	6
	Refugee boy	Benjamin Zephaniah	2008	6
	City of thorns	Ben Rawlence	2016	6
	The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 19471949 (Cambridge Middle East Library)	Benny Morris	1987	5
	Of Beetles and Angels Bookmarks	Mawi Asgedom.	2002	5
	Latehomecomer	Kao Kalia Yang	2008	5
	Transnational Nomads	Cindy Horst	2006	4
	Escape from North Korea	Melanie Kirkpatrick	2012	4
	When Broken Glass Floats	Chanrithy Him	2000	3
	They poured fire on us from the sky	Benson Deng	2005	3
	The other side of the sky	Farah Ahmedi	2007	3
	The happiest refugee	Anh Do	2010	3
	Do they hear you when you cry	Fauziya Kassindja	1998	2
	The Displaced	Viet Thanh Nguyen	2018	2
	The story of rehabilitation	U. Bhaskar Rao	1967	1
	Rehabilitation	Pran Nath Luthra	1972	1
	International encyclopedia of communications	George Gerbner	1989	1
	The marginal men	Prafulla K. Chakrabarti	1990	1
	The Vietnamese boat people, 1954 and 1975-1992	Nghia M. Vo	2006	1
	Outcasts united	Warren St. John	2012	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

Nearby shelves

ReggaeReincarnationRelativityRelaxationRelicsReligion & Science

Want the ideas behind these books explained rather than listed? Try Study for short explainers, Academy for deeper tracks, and the periodic table or the night sky when the book is about matter or stars.