Recs if you like We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I...
Read for Palestine
Books by Palestinian authors or that highlight Gaza.
Non-fiction for Palestine
Non-fiction books about Palestine currently, it's history, and its people. Including poetry. These are important books, and some of them are must-reads to understand the oppression of Palestine. Don't forget them. Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Palestinian Literature
PALESTINIAN AUTHORS & WRITERS (including half-Palestinian or of Palestinian heritage) โ๏ธincludes translated titles โ๏ธsome books are not available on Pagebound; more can be found on my Storygraph & Instagram accounts
on not being home
in which characters (real and fictional) deal with being refugees, exiles, or immigrants, sometimes staying in exile and sometimes journeying back home
โif mastering the language is too hard, only be patient; the telegram imploring your return wonโt need translation.โ
Palestine tbr ๐ต๐ธ
On Palestine: A Reading List
Widen your horizons ๐ NON-FIC
A list of books to help you assimilate different perpectives - in politics, sociology, race studies, humanities, real history, psychology.
Books you might need in order to become "disgustingly educated" on various topics that concern all of us.
As always, anything must be taken with a grain of salt, even when it's a perspective we agree with โ ๏ธ
Never forget ๐ธ
Beyond the Echo Chamber: Israel-Palestine
These are some of the books that I and others have added to my "Beyond the Echo Chamber" Reading Challenge on StoryGraph for books about Israel and Palestine. I'm not going to write out each individual prompt here, but they include a wide range of authors and topics, both fiction and nonfiction, and prioritize OwnVoices books.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/ceaa3a21-ee76-4360-af25-6d3a978f73c9
Memoirs
Memoirs open and share the life of extraordinary people with us all. It's a privilege to read and know someone's story. Here are a few amazing, memorable memoirs.
