Books like Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

Ishmael Beah’s memoir chronicles his harrowing journey from a nine‑year‑old rebel fighter in Sierra Leone’s civil war to a survivor rehabilitated by UNICEF and later a storyteller traveling the United States.

A book about a flower thing

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

I ten-year-old Gabriel’s carefree childhood in 1992 Burundi is shattered as civil war and genocide engulf his country and its neighbour, Rwanda.

A true account of William Kamkwamba, a Malawian boy who, against famine, drought and poverty, builds a working windmill from scrap to bring electricity and water to his village.

A sweeping memoir of a Sudanese child refugee who overcomes war, exile, and the challenges of resettlement in the United States.

The Deerslayer: A prequel to James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, focusing on the rapid civilizing of New York and the introduction of the hero, Natty Bumppo, to the frontiersmen of the time.

A thrilling historical spy novel set during the American Revolution, inspired by accusations of venality and featuring a common man wrongly suspected as a spy for the British, who refuses to accept payment for information vital to the Patriot's cause.

Allan Quatermain, the seasoned hunter from H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 classic, quests for wilderness after the loss of his son, rallying companions on a perilous inland journey from Africa’s east coast where they face Masai warriors.

A fable set in Africa that follows a street child’s journey from a burned village to the coast, weaving themes of war, magic and survival.

An albino woman, Memory, writes her recollected truth while awaiting execution in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum‑security prison, questioning the nature of her conviction for the murder of her adopted father.

Jacob and Oteka are young hostages of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, where their friendship and courage are tested as they struggle to survive the brutal guerrilla war.

This book recounts the rise of Sam Childers from violent, drug-addicted biker to a man willing to risk everything to rescue the orphans and child soldiers of Sudan. "All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war." - Sam Childers. Sam Childers has always been a fighter. Born to a violent father and a mother of great faith, his life was a contradiction. With an affinity for drugs and women, the angry young man grew into a drug-dealing biker. But that was then. Nowadays Sam -- along with the cadre of Sudanese soldiers he employs -- spends his time in the most dangerous parts of Sudan and Uganda rescuing the youngest victims of war, orphans and child-soldiers. His mission is simple: save the children, no matter the cost. - Publisher.

Three farmers depicted by August Sander in 1914 become the nexus of a 20‑century story, linking a young narrator in the present, a Boston computer writer, and the looming horrors of World War I.

Pulitzer‑winning 1955 novel depicting the horrors of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate concentration camp that walled the lives of Civil War POWs.