18 must-read audiobook books like Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

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Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe…

"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

If you liked the audiobook plot in Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

By: Robin Coste Lewis

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction

2. Before the Next Bomb Drops

By: Remi Kanazi

3.31

Format: None pages,

we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the ir… read more

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3. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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4. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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6. 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

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"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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7. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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9. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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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

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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11. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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12. 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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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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13. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
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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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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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  • feminism
  • 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

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20. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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21. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more

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  • audiobook
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

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23. Oculus: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.18

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film l… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"The sun doesn't set in Lost in Translation, but I will make sure it does here."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Where do you wander, where do you search for this petal that grows from the stone in your chest?"

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Every day I try to fight my own brokenness. But once you are forgotten, it's not so bad: a heart broken joins another chorus."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

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24. The Skin and Its Girl

By: Sarah Cypher

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

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25. Mother Country

By: Etaf Rum

4.19

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Palestinian American woman comes to terms with the lessons imparted by her mother in an evo… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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27. Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • audiobook
  • islam
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

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28. Concentrate

By: Courtney Faye Taylor

4.58

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic deb… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
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29. Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens

30. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Cravens's Pleasure Principle: Poems book and Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year

  • poetry
Cover of Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets) by Adrienne Chung

31. Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)

By: Adrienne Chung

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“ Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Ch… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Top adult books like Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Noor Hindi

4.52

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If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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Kaveh Akbar

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Isabella Hammad

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