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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Middle-East (West Asia)

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  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 08/20/2024
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • Nicked
    Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • Every Rising Sun
    Jamila Ahmed
    Paperback: 07/16/2024
     
    In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit ...
  • The Lion Women of Tehran
    Marjan Kamali
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop,...
  • The Moon That Turns You Back
    Hala Alyan
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the ...
  • Once We Were Home
    Jennifer Rosner
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel ...
  • Martyr!
    Martyr!: A Novel
    Kaveh Akbar
    Hardcover: 01/23/2024
     
    A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks ...

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