Historical Fiction Books
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A House Without Windows
Nadia Hashimi • 2017
There are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak • 2025
Sea Prayer
Khaled Hosseini • 2018
The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra • 2005
One Night Beneath the Lemon Trees
Mary Karras • 2023
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali • 2024
In My Mother's Footsteps
Mona Hajjar Halaby • 2021
The Blue Between Sky and Water
Susan Abulhawa • 2015
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi • 2014
My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk • 2011
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli • 2020
A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.
The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani • 2019
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
The Architect's Apprentice
Elif Shafak • 2014
Last Train to Istanbul
Ayşe Kulin • 2013
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam • 2012
Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Deborah Rodriguez • 2023
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Deborah Rodriguez • 2016
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Deborah Rodriguez • 2013
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri • 2019
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Marjan Kamali • 2019
Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa • 2021
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini • 2014
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh • 2022
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini • 2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini • 2018
