April is Arab American Heritage Month -- a time for celebrating the history, contributions, and culture of the diverse population of Arab Americans. We've compiled a booklist of books by and about Arab Americans for all ages!

This article previously included authors not of Arab descent. We have updated the list and sincerely apologize for our mistake.

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Arab American Heritage Month Booklist with links

Children's Picture Books

The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha and Irene Latham

In My Mosque by M.O. Yuksel

The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Sitti’s Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye

Children's and Preteen Chapter Books

The Magical Reality of Nadia by Basim Yusuf

Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye

Teen and Young Adult Fiction

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

There Is No Long Distance Now by Naomi Shihab Nye

We Hunt the Flame by Faizal Hafsah

Teen and Young Adult Nonfiction

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

Adult Fiction

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan

The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Adult Nonfiction

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance by Fady Joudah

A Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

Life Without a Recipe by Diana Abu-Jaber

Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War by Anthony Shadid

Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said

The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In by Ayser Salman