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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,084 books — 976 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 266 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,015 books — 1,457 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Cultural reads
402 books — 165 voters

Adhaata Asao's Liege by Afroz AlamEon by Alison GoodmanThe Red Pyramid by Rick RiordanCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan
YA Books inspired by Non-Western/Eastern Mythology
212 books — 332 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 — 472 voters

The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa AshourFriendly Fire by Alaa Al AswanyChicago by Alaa Al AswanyI Saw Ramallah by Mourid BarghoutiNo 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 AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
284 books — 142 voters

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al AswanyTaxi by Khaled Al KhamissiNo One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel MeguidThe Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
English Books on Modern Egypt
179 books — 51 voters
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesEverything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Leeساعة بغداد by Shahad Al RawiThere There by Tommy OrangeRainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018
259 books — 284 voters


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