Book Recommendations for
General Fiction + Middle-Eastern Authors
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Aria Aber
Hardcover: 01/14/2025
An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and ...
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Amira Ghenim
Hardcover: 01/14/2025
A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that ...
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Hisham Matar
Paperback: 01/07/2025
A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–...
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Kaveh Akbar
Paperback: 12/31/2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks ...
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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...
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Yasmin Zaher
Hardcover: 07/09/2024
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City ...
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Marjan Kamali
Hardcover: 07/02/2024
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop,...
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