Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
By: Heba Hayek
4.56
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine, filled with honey and warmth. Samb…
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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- poetry
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- lesbian
- historical fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
3. Amrita
By: Banana Yoshimoto
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconve… read more
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- fiction
4. 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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5. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- lgbt
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
6. 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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- poetry
"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
7. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
8. 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
- historical fiction
"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
9. 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
"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
10. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
11. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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12. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
14. Intervals
By: Marianne Brooker
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more
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15. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
16. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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- poetry
"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
17. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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- short stories
18. 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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- poetry
"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
19. They Fell Like Stars from the Sky & Other Stories
By: Sheikha Helawy
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a collection of eighteen short stories celeb… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
20. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
By: Lola Olufemi
4.24
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn… read more
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- poetry
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
21. Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
By: Cradle Community
4.35
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of … read more
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"Crime is a construct that changes depending on its targets, applied to some but never to others."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"The existence of trans people presents a threat to one of the central tenets of the white-supremacist, capitalist state - that we all need to just accept our place within its violent system."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"In a world where we didn't have to commit most of our energy to making enough money to keep a roof over our heads, we might actually have time to engage in self-reflection, community care and collect…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologi…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
22. The Stone House
By: Yara Hawari
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The year is 1968. The recent Arab defeat in the Naksa has led to the loss of all of historic Palest… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
23. I cannot be good until you say it
By: Sanah Ahsan
4.29
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry a tender m… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
24. Curious Affinities
By: Sophie Chauhan
4.30
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
How much distance and difference can intimacy hold? How much proximity and likeness does it require… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
25. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lesbian
- fiction
- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
26. She's Always Hungry: Stories
By: Eliza Clark
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
27. Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
By: Heba Hayek
4.56
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine, filled with honey and warmth. Samb… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. Forest of Noise: Poems
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.73
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more
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- poetry
29. Seeing For Ourselves and Even Stranger Possibilities
By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
4.46
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Why do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visible? How do we want to be perceived, and… read more
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- poetry
30. The Leaf of the Neem Tree
By: Jamal Mehmood
4.34
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Known for their bitter taste, neem leaves have been used for centuries in South Asian traditional m… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
31. You Must Believe in Spring
By: Mohamed Tonsy
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Twenty years after she first chanted in Tahrir, Hanan’s son is living under military rule in Egypt.… read more
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- fiction
