14 Best nonfiction books like Our Syria: Recipes from Home by Dina Mousawi

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Our Syria: Recipes from Home

By: Dina Mousawi

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Syria is where food, memory, and resilience recreate the flavors of this beautiful country in Our …

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1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. Out of Place

By: None

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. 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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4. On the Move: A Life

By: Oliver Sacks

4.02

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will … read more

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  • nonfiction
"In 1966, after arriving in New York, I read two of Luria's books, Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Human Brain and Psychological Processes. The latter, which contained very full case histories of…"

-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

"Individuality is deeply imbued in us from the very start, at the neuronal level. Even at a motor level, researchers have shown, an infant does not follow a set pattern of learning to walk or how to r…"

-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

5. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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6. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more

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7. Jerusalem: A Cookbook

By: Yotam Ottolenghi , Sami Tamimi

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

With Jerusalem, Ottolenghi re-teams with his friend and co-owner of his restaurants, Sami Tamimi. B… read more

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8. The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Last Widow returns with another elec… read more

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"Toddlers are like the worst inmates. When they're not lying to your face and tearing up your shit, they're napping, pooping, or trying to think of different ways to fuck with you."

-Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)

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9. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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10. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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11. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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15. In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean

By: Hawa Hassan

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious by Michael Solomonov

16. Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious

By: Michael Solomonov

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For their first major book since the trailblazing Zahav , Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook go stra… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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17. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

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"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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18. Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen

By: Yasmin Khan

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Yasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey

By: Laila El-Haddad

4.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This award-winning cookbook shares with readers the little-known but distinctive cuisine of the Gaz… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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20. Our Syria: Recipes from Home

By: Dina Mousawi

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Syria is where food, memory, and resilience recreate the flavors of this beautiful country in Our … read more

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  • history
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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21. The Scent of Pomegranates and Rose Water: Reviving the Beautiful Food Traditions of Syria

By: Habeeb Salloum

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The traditions of Syrian cooking go back hundreds of years, and is notable for its sensory componen… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction

6 must-read history books like Our Syria: Recipes from Home by Dina Mousawi

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Out of Place

None

4.44

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

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