First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
By: Huda Al-Marashi
3.64
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it m…
Want to Read $ 18.62"Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
"Maybe Mama was right, and you could learn to love someone. Maybe knowing a guy loved you was enough to flip the switch in your heart that made you love him back."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
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1. Bastards
By: Mary Anna King
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with he… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
2. When the Moon is Low
By: Nadia Hashimi
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known.… read more
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3. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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4. She Wore Red Trainers
By: Na'ima B. Robert
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When Ali first meets Amirah, he notices everything about her--her hijab, her long eyelashes and her… read more
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5. The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
By: None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages,
From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-… read more
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6. Queen of the Tiles
By: Hanna Alkaf
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen gi… read more
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- audiobook
7. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
8. My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
By: Kevin Toolis
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. 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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- religion
- islam
"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
10. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
11. Ayesha at Last
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
"No, she is not with child,"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
12. Salaam, with Love
By: Sara Sharaf Beg
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This heartfelt and humorous YA contemporary follows Dua, who spends the month of Ramadan making une… read more
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- romance
- religion
- islam
- audiobook
13. Hana Khan Carries On
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.95
Format: 368 pages, ebook
From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of “You’ve Got Mail”. H… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
"Books are like people, you have to give them room to breathe."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On
"Everything is better told as a story, and mine is still unfolding."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On
"I had filled my heart and hands with everyone else’s burdens, had accepted their worries as if they had been my own, assuming they were all doing the same for me—but they weren’t."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On
"Then you tell me your favourite colour so I can send you flowers, your favourite place so I can take you there, your favourite book so I can read it just so we can argue about it. I know you want to …"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On
14. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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- romance
- family
"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
15. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
By: Anissa Gray
3.63
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, id… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"Burn it all down. Let it go."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"I keep wondering how you find compassion for your own self when you go against what's good in you."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"My Big Mama raised us. She'd tell me and my two girl cousins every time we left the house, 'Y'all be careful. It's dangerous being a girl out there.'"-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
"Sometimes life an pull a lot out of you, Althea. Just squeeze you dry. And if you don't have a way to get back whatever's good and precious to you, it's like losing your soul."-Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
16. Once Upon an Eid
By: S.K. Ali
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Once Upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices w… read more
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- religion
- audiobook
"It's hard to see the beauty in things when you can't see past your insecurities."-S.K. Ali, Once Upon an Eid
"If we can be strong enough to resist the stuff Allah has allowed, it makes it easier to resist the stuff that's forbidden."-S.K. Ali, Once Upon an Eid
17. All of This
By: Rebecca Woolf
3.93
Format: 256 pages, ebook
"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- marriage
- nonfiction
- 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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- family
- audiobook
19. The Mermaid from Jeju
By: Sumi Hahn
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Yangsze Choo's Night Tiger and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko comes a magical saga that… read more
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- audiobook
"Tendrils of vine and fern fell from both sides of the gully, like green waterfalls spilling from rocks. Sunlight beamed through the trees, illuminating every tiny insect and mote in the air..."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
"The half moon disappeared behind a cloud, casting the scene into darkness. The silence between the boy and girl expanded. It filled with memories of promises made, words that the world had broken"."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
20. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.96
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
21. Much Ado about Nada
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more
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- audiobook
"Life really was bizarre on occasion."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
22. It All Comes Back to You
By: Farah Naz Rishi
3.49
Format: 432 pages, ebook
After Kiran Noorani's mom died, Kiran vowed to keep her dad and sister, Amira, close. Then out of … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
"Where you live, where you love, where you breathe--that is where your home will be."-Farah Naz Rishi, It All Comes Back to You
"Who you have feelings for—that is not a choice. Feelings happen whether you want them to or not. But love isn’t a feeling; it’s the act of planting a seed and putting in the time and care it needs to…"-Farah Naz Rishi, It All Comes Back to You
"DEEN: What about you? KIRAN: Hmm . . . seeing the future! KIRAN: I want to be able to see the future. DEEN: Feeling anxious about the future? KIRAN: Yeah. Always. KIRAN: Especially lately. DEEN: How’…"-Farah Naz Rishi, It All Comes Back to You
"There are millions of shayaris and ghazals and songs that spin beautiful words about what love is: fire, wine, pain," he goes on. "But that is all passion. Feeling. Love, on the other hand, is an act…"-Farah Naz Rishi, It All Comes Back to You
23. Love from Mecca to Medina
By: S.K. Ali
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprisin… read more
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- romance
- religion
- islam
- audiobook
"So he would get away from it all and sit in the cave to grieve and pray for change-yes, in the best ways he knew how. And then"-S.K. Ali, Love from Mecca to Medina
"Everyone is important. When you know that and believe and act upon it, everything and everyone around upou will feel at peace with you"-S.K. Ali, Love from Mecca to Medina
"Everyone is important. When you know that and believe it and act upon it, everything and everyone around you will feel at peace with you."-S.K. Ali, Love from Mecca to Medina
24. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Ink Girls
By: Marieke Nijkamp
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Every secret is a story waiting to happen. From New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijka… read more
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26. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen … read more
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- romance
- islam
- memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
"Her cat hotel did very well. LOL"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"Her daughter got married in pants. Lol"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"I find you. . . r citizenship very attractive. Lol"-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
"Yeah, I've been there. It had a funky smell and reminded me of a graveyard."-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
27. First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
By: Huda Al-Marashi
3.64
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it m… read more
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- romance
- islam
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- marriage
- family
- audiobook
"Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
"Maybe Mama was right, and you could learn to love someone. Maybe knowing a guy loved you was enough to flip the switch in your heart that made you love him back."-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
28. The Marriage Clock
By: Zara Raheem
3.27
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In Zara Raheem's fresh, funny, smart debut, a young, Muslim-American woman is given three months to… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
29. The Kinship Of Secrets
By: Eugenia Kim
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Calligrapher’s Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised … read more
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30. Rewitched
By: Lucy Jane Wood
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more
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- romance
31. Musings of a Muslim Chaplain
By: Sondos Kholaki
4.48
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2021 Daybreak Press Book Awards: Non-Fiction Books! This book chronicles the journ… read more
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