Tara Westover

educated (2018)

One woman's story of educating herself following a childhood of isolation from mainstream society in the mountains of Idaho.

Wab Kinew

The Reason You Walk (2015)

Kinew revisits his childhood and connects to his father's traumatic experience in residential school.

Nadia Murad

The Last Girl (2017)

A harrowing memoir of Nadia's Yazidi experience in northern Iraq.

Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump (2007)

The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with Autism.

Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray (2011) & Salt to the Sea (2016)

Two historical fiction novels detailing the  Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in the 1940s and the terrible genocide that occurred.

Deborah Ellis

The Breadwinner Trilogy (2009) & My Name is Parvana (2015)

Novels set in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the time of the Taliban and the following war. Parvana's story continues in Post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Kim Thúy

Ru (2009)

The story of a Vietnamese family who leave a Malaysian refugee camp to find refuge in Québec.