Titles in blue have been recommended by the CoS staff team, CoS groups or Newcastle Libraries Reading Group list!

Fantasy

• Toggle by Wyon Stansfeld
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Novels

• The Go-Away Bird by Warren Fitzgerald
• Vanished by Ahmed Masoud
• What Is The What by Dave Eggers
• A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
• By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
• The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
• This Is Where I Am by Karen Campbell
• Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
• Harare North by Brian Chikwava
• Minaret by Leila Aboulela
• Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela
• Refusal Shoes by Tony Saint
• The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Kirby
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Welcome to Paradise by Mahi Binebine
• The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages by Sophie Hardach
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
• Outcasts United by Warren St John
• Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon

Biographies and auto-biographies

• The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
• Antigona and Me by Kate Clanchy
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Cast Away by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
• City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
• Embracing the Infidel by Bahzad Yaghmaian
• Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
• Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Bah
• Slave by Mende Nazar and Damien Lewis
• In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
• Strength in What Remains by Tracey Kidder
• Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
• The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri

Short Stories

• breach by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes
• Refugee Tales I and II edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus
• The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle
• The Last Tram by Nedim Gursel
• Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf

Poetry

See https://arts.cityofsanctuary.org/resources/poems for lots of other examples

• Birds Without Sky: Poems From Exile by Malka al-Haddad
• Welcome to Leicester edited by Emma Lee and Ambrose Musiyiwa
• Refugee by Sophie Nicholls
• Hands and Wings
• Over Land, Over Sea edited by Kathleen Bell, Emma Lee and Siobhan Logan
• No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani

Collections

• Are You Happy With That?
• The Mara Crossing by Ruth Padel
• My Heart Loves in My Language
• Trauma Awareness Publishing has launched two books:

‘Under the Shade of a Tree: Somali Women Speak’

‘Leaving Our Homeland: Syria to the Isle of Bute’

• The Journey Back from Hell by Anton Gill - a collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors