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
• Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story - Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and hoping to make a new life in Europe. Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who runs the lone medical clinic on the island, has been caring for many of them—both the living and the dead—for a quarter century.
• Refugee Tales
• Refugee Tales: Volume II
• Refugee Tales: Volume III

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
• On the Move: Poems about Migration by Michael Rosen

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