For now, here is an unsorted list of books we might read…suggestions, tips, reviews are welcome. We have tried to sort the list by country and author so it is easier to peruse.
Libya
Ibrahim Al-Koni
· Badhth An al-Makan al Da’I (al-Mu’assas al-Arabiya lil-Firassat wal-Nashr
· Anubis
Egypt
Alifa Rifaat
· Distant View of a Minaret
Yahya Taher Abdullah
· The Mountain of Green Tea & Other Stories
Edward Al-Kharrat
· Stones of Bobello
· Girls of Alexandrai
· Rama & the Dragon
Ghamal al Ghitani
· Pyramid Texts
· Zayni Barakat
Hamdy Abowgliel
· Lusus mutaqa’idun/Thieves of Retirement
Ibrahim Alsan
· The Heron
· Nile Sparrows
Mourid Barghouti
· I Saw Ramallah
Yusuf Abu Rayya
· The Wedding Night
Mohammed El-Bisatie
· Over The Bridge
· Clamour of the Lake
· Houses Behind the Trees
Yahya Hakki
· The Lamp of Umm Hashim & Other Stories
Sonallah Ibrahim
· The Committee
Ibrahim Abdel Megid
· Distant Train
Sabri Moussa
· Seeds of Corruption
Latifa al-Zayyat
· The Search
· The Open Door
Hala al Badry
· A Certain Woman
· Muntaha
Ibrahim Abdel Magid
· Birds of Amber
· No One Sleeps in Alexandria
· The Other Place
Miral al Tahawy
· Blue Aubergine
· The Tent
Yusuf Idris
· City of Love & Ashes
Idris Ali
· Dongola
Somaya Ramadan
· Leaves of Narcissus
Bahaa Taher
· Love in Excile
Ahdaf Soueif
· Map of Love
· In the Eye of the Sun
Naguib Mahfouz
· Children of the Alley
Nawal el-Saadawi
· God Dies by the Nile
· Woman at Point Zero
· The Fall of the Imam
Tawfik al Hakim
· Diary of a County Prosecutor
· Fate of a Cockroach
· The Prison of Life
Iraq
Betool Khedairi
· Absent
Samuel Shimon
· An Iraqi in Paris
Khalid Kishtainy
· Tomorrow is Another Day
Mohammad Khudayyir
· Basrayatha
Fadhil Al-Azzwani
· The Last of the Angels
Alia Mamdouh
· The Loved Ones
· Naphtalene
Hala El Badry
· Muntaha: A Village Novel
Fuad al Takarli
· The Long Way Back
Selim Matar
· The Woman of the Flast
Tunisia
Hassan Nasr
· Return to Dar al-Basha
Algeria
Assia Djebar
· A Sister to Scheherazade
· Fantasia
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
· The Chaos of the Senses
Lebanon
Elias Khoury
· The Little Mountain, 1977
· The Gates of the City, 1981
· The Journey of Little Gandhi, 1989
· The Kingdom of Strangers, 1993
· Yalo, 2002
Hannan al-Shaykh
· I Sweep the Sun off the Rooftops
· Only in London
· Women of Sand and Myrrh
Yussef Bazzi
· Yasser Arafat Looked at Me & Smiled
Suhail Shadoud
· Burning in the Past tense
Hoda Barakat
· The Tiller of Waters
· Disciples of Passion
Ghada Samman
· The Night of the First Billion
· Beirut Nightmares
Leila al Atrash
· A Woman of Five Seasons
Amin Maalouf
· Samarkind
Rashid al Daif
· This Side of Innocence
· Passage to Dusk
· Dear Mr Kawabata
Saudi Arabia
Turki al-Hamad
· Adama
· Shumaisi
Zainab Hifni
· I Weep No Longer
Abdullah Al-Taezi
· Al Hafa’ir Still Lives
Abd al Rahman Munif
· Cities of Salt
Abdallah al Nasser
· The Tree and Other Stories
Hamza Bogary
· The Sheltered Corner
Morocco
Mohamed Berrada
· Fugitive Light
Leila Abouzeid
· The Last Chapter
· The Year of the Elephant
Bensalem Himmich
· The Polymath
· The Theocrat
Syria
Hanna Mina
· Fragments of a Memory
Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib
· Just Like a River
Rafik Schami
· Damascus Nights
Ghada Samman
· Beirut Nightmare
Ulfat Idilbi
· Sabriya
Israel
Emile Habiby
· The Secret Life of Saaed the Pessoptomist
· Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter
Palestine
Sahar Khalifeh
· Wild Thorns
· The Image, The Icon, The Covenant
Fadwa Tuqan
· Mountain Journey
Yemen
Mohammed Abdul Wali
· They Die Strangers
Books and Authors Not Sorted by Country
Nedjma (an unknown North African Muslim woman writer, using the Pseudonym Nedjma)
· The Almond
