29 best-selling fiction books like As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

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Similar categories in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• historical
• war
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Na'ima B. Robert's She Wore Red Trainers book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• war
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• young adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Songs help me process life. They help me feel."

-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your fait in something greater than yourself."

-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself."

-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

"Oh God, Toufiq," I whispered. "So much money we put in. What will we do now? I am a fool!" "Kindness is not foolish, my heart." He put his arm around me. "Anyway. At least they didn't steal the pictu…"

-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

Similar categories in Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• historical
• war
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Bury me before I bury you" I did."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"There are enough people hurting you,"

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."

-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Shelley Read's Go as a River book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• young adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived. -Thea Attwood"

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2) book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• young adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"You are capable of far more than you know. Why do you think I look at you now and marvel? Why do you think I draw close to your kind? I have sung many of you to eternal rest after death, and I have f…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"In all my years I have discovered that the most precious of things are often taken for granted and that we tend to let time wheel forward at such a pace that we cannot catch every detail that makes t…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

Similar categories in S.K. Ali's Love From A to Z book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"We're allowed to cry."

-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z

"Life goes on, even if love doesn't."

-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z

"But it's not smooth sailing." "Life isn't"

-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z

"But it's not smooth sailing" "Life isn't?"

-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Stationery Shop book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Hope This Doesn't Find You book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"No,"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."

-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• magical realism
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• historical
• young adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• fiction
• young adult
• contemporary

"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• fiction
• contemporary
• fantasy
• audiobook

"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• fiction
• contemporary
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• fiction
• contemporary
• fantasy
• audiobook

"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook

Similar categories in Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• historical
• war
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Unmaking of June Farrow book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• magical realism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• fantasy
• audiobook

"[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped w…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no b…"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

"My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would …"

-Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

Similar categories in S.K. Ali's Love from Mecca to Medina book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• romance
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

• audiobook
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran