5 best-selling science fiction books like Palestine +100 by Basma Ghalayini

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Palestine +100

By: Basma Ghalayini

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like i…

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Cover of Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh, Trevor Le Gassick, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

1. Wild Thorns

By: Sahar Khalifeh , Trevor Le Gassick , Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement… read more

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  • fiction
"هذا الجيل قوي ، متوقد ، صلب كالصوان، رغم قده الممشوق كعود الخيزران. وتذكرها. كتبها، وسبابتها المرفوعة بالغبار، وقامتها النحيلة الضامرة. قالت : - الأقوياء لا يطأطئون."

-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns

" لماذا توجعنا الأغاني الحزينة ؟ ألأننا شعب رومانسي؟ ولم يكن هو رومانسياً. لم يعد كذلك. أو هكذا بات يعتقد. كيف توصل إلى هذي النتيجة؟ تدريب. طلقات. زحف على البطون. شدّ البطون. ويصبح الإنسان لارومانسي الف…"

-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns

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2. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

3. Iraq + 100: stories from a century after the invasion

By: Hassan Blasim , Diaa Jubaili , Ali Bader , Ra Page , Hassan Abdulrazzak , Anoud , None , None , Mortada Gzar , None , None

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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5. The Coming Insurrection

By: Comité invisible

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe… read more

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6. Gaza Writes Back (#1)

By: Refaat Alareer

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine", edited by Refaat Alareer i… read more

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7. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. 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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  • politics
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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9. 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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  • politics
  • 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

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10. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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  • politics
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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11. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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13. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • politics
  • contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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14. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • asia
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

15. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

By: Harsha Walia

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more

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  • politics
"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

16. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
Cover of They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi

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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  • politics
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18. Palestine +100

By: Basma Ghalayini

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like i… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

19. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy) by Kung Li Sun

21. Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

By: Kung Li Sun

4.44

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black… read more

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  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • speculative fiction
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10 Best fiction books like Palestine +100 by Basma Ghalayini

Transform Your Habits

Wild Thorns

Sahar Khalifeh , Trevor Le Gassick , Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

3.83

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Spirits Abroad

Zen Cho

4.35

Iraq + 100: stories from a century after the invasion

Hassan Blasim , Diaa Jubaili , Ali Bader , Ra Page , Hassan Abdulrazzak , Anoud , None , None , Mortada Gzar , None , None

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

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4.50

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3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

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3.36

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3.63

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