The Arsonists' City
By: Hala Alyan
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rend…
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1. The Blue Between Sky and Water
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more
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2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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- audiobook
4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
5. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
6. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
7. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
8. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
9. Mother of Strangers
By: Suad Amiry
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
11. The Beauty of Your Face
By: Sahar Mustafah
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face
12. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
13. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- adult
- family
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
14. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
15. No Land to Light On
By: Yara Zgheib
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian … read more
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- historical
- family
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- lgbt
- family
- contemporary
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
17. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- audiobook
18. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Unlikely Animals
By: Annie Hartnett
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals
20. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
21. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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- audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
22. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
23. The Arsonists' City
By: Hala Alyan
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rend… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
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- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
- lebanon
- audiobook
24. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
By: Duchess Goldblatt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseu… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
"When someone you love dies, you lose them in pieces over time, but you also get them back in pieces: little fragments of memory come rushing back through what they cared about, what brought them joy.…"-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
25. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
26. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
By: Alan Jacobs
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary g… read more
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- audiobook
"When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever "is better than we are" ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it."-Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
27. Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
28. The Lion Women of Tehran
By: Marjan Kamali
4.50
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
29. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
30. Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
By: Alissa Wilkinson
3.64
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? That's the question fi… read more
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31. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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