Spotlighting Palestinian Authors and Books About Palestine

Literary Fiction

• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
• Against the Loveless World: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
• The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
• Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
• A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
• Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
• The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
• The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam
• Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
• My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifah
• The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
• Fractured Destinies by Rabai al Madhoun
• Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasr Allah
• Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam
• The Stone House by Yara Hawari
• Guapa by Saleem Haddad
• The Book of Queens by Joumana Haddad
• Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
• On Zionist Literature by Ghassan Kanafani
• Baba al-Saha or Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh
• Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
• The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem
• Velvet by Huzama Habayeb
• Arabesques by Anton Shammas
• The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Hanini
• All That's Left to You by Ghassan Hanafani
• Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani
• Out of It by Selma Dabbagh
• Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry

Nonfiction

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
• One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi
• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour (Memoir)
• I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
• Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifah
• We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
• Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, & Palestine by Nada Elia
• Don't Look Left: A Diary of Genocide by Atef Abu Saif
• Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
• Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman by N.S. Nuseibeh (LGBTQ)
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan (LGBTQ)
• The Last Earth by Ramzy Baroud
• Orientalism by Edward W. Said
• Where the Line is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh
• In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
• Love is an Ex-Country: A Memoir by Randa Jarrar (LGBTQ)
• Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invite: Capital and State Builiding in the West Bank by Kareem Rabie
• Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir by Hussein Barghouthi
• The Blue Light by Hussein Barghouthi
• Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
• Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq
• Stories Under Occupation And Other Plays from Palestine edited by Samer al-Saber and Gary M. English
• Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance edited by Ahmad Qabaha and Rachel Gregory Fox
• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
• Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine by Ibtisam Barakat
• Country of Words: A Transnationals Atlas for Palestinian Literature by Refqa Abu Ramaileh
• Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
• Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life by Sayed Kashua
• Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Fashioning the Modern Middle East by Yasmine Nachabe Taan
• Gaza Unsilenced by Refaat Alareer, PhD
• Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine edited by Diana Allan
• Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad
• Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro
• My Nakba: A Palestinian's Odyssey of Love and Hope by Samir Toubassy
• They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Taimi and Dena Takruri
• In My Mother's Footsteps by Mona Hajjar Halaby
• Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said
• Palestine: A Guide by George Azar, Marian Shahin
• The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know About Each Other by Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson
• Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank by Stefan Szepsi
• Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917-Present edited by Lena Jayyusi
• Jerusalem: Arab Social Life, Traditions, and Everyday Pelasures in the 20th Century by Subhi S. Ghosheh
• A Vision for My Father: The Life and Work of Palestinian-American Artist and Designer Rajie Cook
• Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
• BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
• Visualizing Palestine edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, et al.
• Palestine in a World on Fire by Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappe
• The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
• Culture and Resistance by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
• On Edward Said by Hamid Dabashi
• Shell Shocked by Mohammed Omer
• Apartheid Israel edited by Sean Jacobs and Jon Soske
• Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing by Rebecca Vilkermerson and Alissa Wise, foreword by Omar Barghouti
• On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, edited by Frank Barat
• Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita
• Against Apartheid edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen
• Stateless Citizenship by Shourideh C. Molavi
• Israelis and Palestinians by Moshe Machover
• The Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948 by musa Budeiri
• The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Tikva Honig-Parnass
• On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice by Jewish Voice for Peace
• Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass
• Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
• Freud and the Non-European by Edward Said
• Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman
• They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby by Paul Findley
• Sharon and My Mother-in-Law by Suad Amiry
• Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward Said
• The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

Poetry