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.
Books for Arab American Heritage Month
By Coll Rowe | March 1 2024 | LiteratureSociologyArab American
A novel
978-1-9848-9924-8
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.
$18.00 US
Jun 07, 2022
Paperback
256 Pages
Vintage
- English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Commonwealth Nations > Canadian
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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A novel
978-0-593-53761-9
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
$28.00 US
Jan 23, 2024
Hardcover
352 Pages
Knopf
A Graphic Memoir
978-1-9848-6029-3
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.
$19.99 US
Sep 20, 2022
Paperback
224 Pages
Ten Speed Graphic
A Novel
978-0-385-54861-8
Between Two Moons is a deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.
$28.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Hardcover
336 Pages
Doubleday
A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
978-0-593-18679-4
In a beautifully written and science-packed debut memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina Nance shares her personal story of overcoming sexism, racism, and adversity, and appreciating the most important moments and people in her life by focusing on her lifelong love of the stars.
$29.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Hardcover
336 Pages
Dutton
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Science
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Technology
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Work
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Healthcare Professions > Nursing > Women's Health
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Women's Health
- Physics and Astronomy > Astronomy > Astrophysics
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A Memoir
978-1-64622-122-6
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. 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).
$16.95 US
Apr 18, 2023
Paperback
240 Pages
Catapult
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Women in America
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Literature
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A Novel
978-0-525-43603-4
Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
$17.00 US
Mar 17, 2020
Paperback
320 Pages
Vintage
A Novel
978-1-64622-059-5
A novel 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
$16.95 US
Jun 08, 2021
Paperback
272 Pages
Catapult
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Israeli
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Palestinian
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- English > Literature > American Literature – American: Novel
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Middle East Studies
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978-1-61219-907-8
Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry–set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.
Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry–set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.
$17.99 US
Apr 13, 2021
Paperback
400 Pages
Melville House
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