Fiction

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The Arsonists' City

By Hala Alyan.
Harper, 2021.

The Beauty of Your Face

By Sahar Mustafah.
W.W. Norton & Co., 2020.

Behind You is the Sea

By Susan Muaddi Darraj. HarperVia, 2024.

The Book of Disappearance: A Novel

Written by Ibtisam Azem. Translated by Sinan Antoon. Syracuse University Press, 2019.

The Coin

By Yasmin Zaher.
Catapult, forthcoming July 2024.
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The Cosmic Trilogy

By Nadia Afifi.
Flame Tree Press. 2020-2023.

Courting Samira: A Novel

By Amal Awad.
HarperVia, 2023.

Enter Ghost

By Isabella Hammad.
Grove Press, 2023.

Evil Eye: A Novel  

By Etaf Rum.
Harper, 2023.

A Map of Home: A Novel

By Randa Jarrar. Penguiin, 2009.
Recommended by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Minor Detail

Written by Adania Shibli. Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
New Directions, 2020. 

Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

By Sonia Sulaiman. Independently published, 2023. 

My First and Only Love

By Sahar Khalifeh.
Hoopoe, 2021.

Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam 

Written by Samira Azzam. Translated by Ranya Abdelrahman. ArabLit, 2022.

The Parisian

By Isabella Hammad.
Grove Press, 2019.

Salt Houses

By Hala Alyan.
Harper Perennial, 2018. 

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

By Heba Hayek.
Hajar Press, 2021.

The Sea Cloak: And Other Stories 

By Nayrouz Qarmout.
Comma Press, 2020.

The Skin and Its Girl: A Novel

By Sarah Cypher.
Ballantine Books, 2023.
Recommended by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Songs for the Dead and the Living

By Sara M. Saleh.
Affirm Press.

Velvet

Written by Huzama Habayeb.
Translated by Kay Heikkinen.
Hoopoe, 2019. 

We Wrote In Symbols: Love and Lust By Arab Women Writers

Edited by Selma Dabbagh.
Saqi Books, 2021.

A Woman Is No Man

By Etaf Rum.
Harper, 2019. 

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

Written by Sonia Nimir. Translated by Marcia Lynx Qualey.
Interlink Books, 2020. 
Recommended by Hannah Moushabeck

You Exist Too Much: A Novel 

By Zaina Arafat.
Catapult, 2021.