Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/69095381-yara">Yara</a> (12 Lists)

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Forthcoming Books for 2020 by African-Americans

95 books — 349 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz

In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz

Books by Egyptian Authors (in English)

100 books — 10 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Around the World One Book from Each Country

1,100 books — 1,022 voters

Nevada Lowball by Antonio Nicassio

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fictitious Africa

563 books — 319 voters

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Immigrant Experience Literature

1,095 books — 1,838 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh Sinha

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad Akreyi

412 books — 174 voters

Adhaata Asao's Liege by Afroz Alam

Eon by Alison Goodman

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan

YA Books inspired by Non-Western/Eastern Mythology

216 books — 335 voters

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa Ashour

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Azazil by Youssef Ziedan

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

Best Middle East Fiction

446 books — 500 voters

The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

Friendly Fire by Alaa Al Aswany

Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

The American University in Cairo Press - Fiction in Translation

134 books — 11 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine Autesserre

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd

A Capitalist in North Korea by Felix Abt

Sketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers

Conflict-Zone Journalism

286 books — 145 voters

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi

No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

English Books on Modern Egypt

180 books — 53 voters

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

ساعة بغداد by Shahad Al Rawi

There There by Tommy Orange

Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018

262 books — 288 voters

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