April is Arab American Heritage Month and Penguin Random House Education is celebrating Arab American heritage and culture by recognizing our authors who have shared their experiences and perspectives through their writing and work. The titles included in this list discuss topics ranging from growing up Arab American to finding oneself to living as a refugee, from complex and unique perspectives. The collection includes memoirs, fiction, and non-fiction.
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review).
From the widely acclaimed, author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun, author and illustrator of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda
A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she tries to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine)
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Award, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of The Oracle of Stamboul, following a young man's captivating journey from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children
In honor of Arab American Heritage Month in April, we are sharing books by Arab and Arab American authors that share their culture, history, and personal lives.
