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Omaha Reading Challenge 2024: Read a book by, about, or featuring a refugee or immigrant

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list contains titles by, about, or featuring a refugee or immigrant. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • We Were Dreamers

    An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

    Liu, Simu, 1989-
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. — B Liu 2022
  • Book, 2020New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — 305.9 Yang 2020
  • Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — FICTION Cruz 2019
  • Book, 2018New York, New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC, [2018] — FICTION Hosseini 2018
  • Book, 2021Seattle : Amazon Crossing, 2021. — FICTION Segovia 2021
  • Book, 2022New York : Pantheon Books, 2022. — FICTION Amiry 2022
  • Graphic Novel, 2021New York : Abrams ComicArts - Megascope, 2021. — GRAPHIC NOVEL Jennings
  • Book, 2023New York : Ballantine Books, [2023] — FICTION Allende 2023
  • Hawker Fare

    Stories & Recipes From a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots

    Syhabout, James,
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — 641.5959 Syhabout 2018
  • Drawn to Berlin

    Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories From a New Europe

    Fitzgerald, Ali,
    Graphic Novel, 2018Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2018. — GRAPHIC NOVEL B Fitzgerald
  • A Long Way Gone

    Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
    Book, 2007New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — B Beah 2007
  • Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — GRAPHIC NOVEL 362.87 Halpern