The Bookish Mindset

I hope I don’t need to give any explanation as to why it’s important to read and learn from Palestine voices right now. Read on for both my own reads and recommendations, plus those on my TBR.

Literary

• A Woman Is No Man – Etaf Rum
• Evil Eye – Etaf Rum
• Against The Loveless World – Susan Abulhuwa
• Enter Ghost – Isabella Hamad
• Minor Detail – Adania Shibli
• You Exist Too Much – Zaina Arafat
• Salt Houses – Hala Alyan *
• Behind You Is The Sea – Susan Muaddi Dharaj *

Romance

• Something More – Jackie Khalilieh *

Short Stories

• The Sea Cloak – Nayrouz Qarmout

Poetry

• Objects from April and May – Zena Agha
• Forrest of Noise – Mozab Abu Toha
• Rifqa – Mohammed El-Kurd *

Non-Fiction

• The Hundred Years War on Palestine – Rashid I Khalidi
• Recognising the Stranger – Isabella Hamad
• Greater than the Sum of Our Parts – Nada Elia *
• Namesake: Reflection on a Warrior Woman – NS Nuseibeh *
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique – Sa’ed Atshan *
• Love Is an Ex-Country – Randa Jarrar *
• They Called Me a Lioness – Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri *

Those with a * denote that these books are on my TBR and I haven’t read them, just for full transparency.

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of any of the above, you can support local bookshops while doing so on Bookshop.org with this link here.

If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, I’d love if you could take a look at my patreon and consider supporting my content on there too.

And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.

Last updated 11/12/24