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Middle-East (West Asia)

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For the Sun After Long Nights

The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising

by Nilo Tabrizy, Fatemeh Jamalpour

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists.

Between Two Rivers

Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

by Moudhy Al-Rashid

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Humanity's earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.

Nicked

A Novel

by M.T. Anderson

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint

The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

There Are Rivers in the Sky

A Novel

by Elif Shafak

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

Martyr!

A Novel

by Kaveh Akbar

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. ...

What the Taliban Told Me

by Ian Fritz

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.

The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.

Every Rising Sun

A Novel

by Jamila Ahmed

Hardcover: Jul 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit and political mastery to navigate opulent palaces brimming with treachery and the perils of the Third Crusade as her Persian homeland teeters ...

The Moon That Turns You Back

Poems

by Hala Alyan

Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.

Once We Were Home

by Jennifer Rosner

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.

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