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Middle-Eastern Authors

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One Word, Six Letters

by Adib Khorram

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two teen boys grapple with identity and accountability and set off a ripple effect within their community after a school assembly is disrupted by a shouted slur.

Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history.

A girl can get in ...

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.

The Coin

A Novel

by Yasmin Zaher

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind

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.

A Calamity of Noble Houses

by Amira Ghenim

Hardcover: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A finalist for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a compelling saga of two families that illuminates the lives of women in modern Tunisia.

My Friends

A Novel

by Hisham Matar

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return

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. ...

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.

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