2026 Reading Challenge

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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima MernissiThe Caliph's House by Tahir ShahA House in Fez by Suzanna ClarkeLa Mémoire D'un Roi by HassanThe Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Books set in, or about, Morocco
38 books — 23 voters
ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 471 voters

Tehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina NayeriEqual of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] by Kaoru Mori
Fictitious Iran
43 books — 23 voters
My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukAnd I Darken by Kiersten WhiteAdora by Bertrice SmallThe Bastard of Istanbul by Elif ShafakThe Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Ottoman Empire - Fiction
42 books — 27 voters

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeSoulless by Gail CarrigerStardust by Neil GaimanThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Gaslamp Fantasy
211 books — 182 voters
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersGlass and Gardens by Sarena UlibarriThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersWings of Renewal by Claudie Arseneault
Solarpunk
129 books — 160 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert CamusNedjma by Kateb YacineCe que le jour doit à la nuit by Yasmina KhadraThe Eight by Katherine Neville
Books Set in Algeria
118 books — 36 voters
The Caliph's House by Tahir ShahBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughDreams of Trespass by Fatima MernissiHideous Kinky by Esther FreudThe Button Box by Bridget Hodder
Books Set in Morocco
138 books — 107 voters

The Nibelungenlied by UnknownTristan by Gottfried von StrassburgParzival & Titurel by Wolfram von EschenbachThe Lament of the Nibelungen by Winder McConnellLegends of the Ring by Elizabeth Magee
Best books on Old and Middle High German in English.
129 books — 13 voters