Book Recommendations for
General Fiction, set in Middle-East (West Asia)
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Marjan Kamali
Paperback: 07/08/2025
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop,...
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Elif Shafak
Paperback: 07/01/2025
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
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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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M.T. Anderson
Hardcover: 07/23/2024
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
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Jamila Ahmed
Paperback: 07/16/2024
In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit ...
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Hala Alyan
Paperback: 03/12/2024
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the ...
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Jennifer Rosner
Paperback: 03/12/2024
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel ...
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