Recs if you like Asad's Secret: A Novel of Gaza...

PALESTINIAN AUTHORS & WRITERS (including half-Palestinian or of Palestinian heritage) ❗️includes translated titles ❗️some books are not available on Pagebound; more can be found on my Storygraph & Instagram accounts

By people who are from (and preferably lived most of their lives in) the Global South. Trying to avoid people paid alot of money by Western institutions.

I'll also include some books by Indigenous authors from the Global North

A list of the YA books published in 2026. Please comment if any are missing.