Arab American Heritage Month Booklist
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.
Find all of these titles and more at cobbcat.org
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