Bethie's Palestine syllabus (60 books)

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1	Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 52,292 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Breaking Poems by Suheir Hammad 4.38 avg rating — 203 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani 4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani 4.37 avg rating — 3,719 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Interlink World Fiction Series) by Emile Habiby 3.83 avg rating — 2,824 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco 4.35 avg rating — 6,997 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish 4.37 avg rating — 4,370 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 4.38 avg rating — 1,063 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh 4.27 avg rating — 2,335 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 39) by Bashir Bashir (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry 3.88 avg rating — 2,172 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 489 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine by Jewish Voice for Peace (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 157 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall 4.35 avg rating — 12,489 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein 4.13 avg rating — 3,945 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer (Editor) 4.65 avg rating — 289 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 106 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home by Fida Jiryis 4.40 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	1949: The First Israelis by Tom Segev 3.88 avg rating — 207 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification by Jeff Halper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé 4.40 avg rating — 5,810 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappé 4.30 avg rating — 346 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 2,790 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Michelle Campos 3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past by Salim Tamari 4.19 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat 4.56 avg rating — 965 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi 4.49 avg rating — 34,161 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman 4.04 avg rating — 264 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé 4.55 avg rating — 10,306 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand 4.13 avg rating — 1,907 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse by Ali Abunimah 4.25 avg rating — 325 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury 3.91 avg rating — 2,596 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev 4.25 avg rating — 305 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim 4.22 avg rating — 961 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 4.02 avg rating — 1,207 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Our Vision For Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out by Ramzy Baroud (Editor) 4.69 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story by Ramzy Baroud 4.37 avg rating — 177 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 (New Directions in Palestinian Studies Book 6) by Adel Manna 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba by Ronit Lentin 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba by Nahla Abdo (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory by Ahmad H. Sa'di (Editor) 4.41 avg rating — 88 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba by Atef Alshaer (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory by Nur Masalha 4.27 avg rating — 83 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities by Anaheed Al-Hardan 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Gaza as Metaphor by Dina Matar (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman 4.19 avg rating — 220 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor) 4.68 avg rating — 2,113 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein 4.66 avg rating — 1,314 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction by Atef Abu Saif 3.78 avg rating — 368 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer (Editor/Contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 1,237 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank by Suha Sabbagh (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy 4.29 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development by Sara Roy 4.71 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy 4.20 avg rating — 495 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass 4.10 avg rating — 394 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi 4.20 avg rating — 256 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi 3.63 avg rating — 155 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine by Ghada Karmi 3.91 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi 4.18 avg rating — 1,233 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars