Fiction
Ahmed Saadawi. Frankenstein in Baghdad. Penguin Books, 2018.
Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Sand Child. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Ghassan Kanafani. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
Collection of Middle Eastern Literature
Arab American Book Awards: The Arab-American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn, Michigan hosts these Book Awards, “is a literary program created to honor books written by and about Arab Americans.” Books are awarded annually in the categories of Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Children/Young Adult.
Memoirs/Social Commentary
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Pantheon, 2004.
Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran. Random House, 2003.
Fatima Mernissi. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Perseus Books, 1995.
Ahdaf Soueif. Cairo. My City, Our Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
