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Palestinian book recs
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items A list of diverse book recommendations by Palestinian authors. All proceeds earned via Benable will go to a family in Gaza.
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Contemporary
Fantasy & magical realism
Graphic novels
Historical
Nonfiction
Older Classics
Contemporary
Contemporary fiction by Palestinian authors.
Yara Murad has worked hard to outrun the demons of her tumultuous Brooklyn childhood. Now living far from home, Yara has achieved everything she aspired to: She is highly educated and teaches art to college student. She's also raising two daughters w...
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
Fantasy & magical realism
Fantasy and magical realism by Palestinian authors.
Award-winning novelist Randa Jarrar's new story collection moves seamlessly between realism and fable, history and the present, capturing the lives of Muslim women and men across myriad geographies and circumstances. With acerbic wit, deep tenderness...
Him Me Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar
Graphic novels
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It’s the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions,...
Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh
Historical
Historical fiction by Palestinian authors.
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles ca...
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, the...
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Nonfiction
Nonfiction, memoir, and essays by Palestinian authors.
Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring...
They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri
Life changes forever for six-year-old Nada when Iraq's invasion of her birth country of Kuwait pushes her mother to immigrate with her to the United States. Just as she finally settles into her strange new existence apart from her father in Rhode Isl...
All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo
In this intimate and eye-opening book, Diya Abdo--daughter of refugees, U.S. immigrant, English professor, and activist—shares the stories of seven refugees. Coming from around the world, they’re welcomed by Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), an organizat...
American Refuge by Diya Abdo
Older Classics
Older classic novels by Palestinian authors.
The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St. Louis all the way to Palestine. Though her father grew up there, Liya...
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry
Poetry by Palestinian authors.
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and oth...
Blood Orange by Yaffa As
Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without honeybees? Where would we be without one another? In eighty-two poems and paragraphs (including the renowned Gate A-4), ...
Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time ...
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
Romance
Romance by Palestinian authors.
Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special...
You Started It by Jackie Khalilieh