I would recommend Gaza Writes Back!! It’s a collection of short stories by Palestinian authors

One Day Everyone Will have always been against this was so good, on my TBR are The Hundred Years War on Palestine and The World After Gaza

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique is also good! It delves into the issue of pinkwashing quite a bit! For fiction, I'd also recommend checking out Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa and Salt Houses by Hala Alyan!

Appreciate the list ✌🏼 As a Palestinian it's refreshing seeing lists dedicated to Palestinian books and more people learning about our cause. Hopefully we'll see a free and liberated Palestine in our lifetime 🇵🇸

i personally haven't read it yet, but I've seen a lot of people recommending The Eyes of Gaza: a Diary of Resilience by Plestia Alaqad!

This is a great list and resource as someone who has also been trying to read more about Palestine.

I just picked up "We Are Not Numbers" which is an essay collection written by young Palestinian authors between 2014 and 2024 which also shines a light on events prior to Oct 2023 that many people aren't aware of. One of the authors included is actually Mosar Abe Toha who wrote "Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear" that you have on the list already. On my shelf I also have "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa which is a historical & literary fiction novel about a Palestinian refugee.

I'm not sure if you're including books that are not authored by Palestinians as well, but if you are I have a few recs: "The Message" by Ta-Nehesi Coats, "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza" by Peter Beinart, "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" by Angela Y. Davis, and "Except for Palestine" by Mac Lamont Hill. (Personally I have only read the first two and the others are TBR for me as of now) but they largely focus on intersectionality and the ways the west perceives the genocide in Gaza for better and for worse.

Thank you for this list, I also recommend anything written by Ghassan Kanafani. I don't know if all his writings are translated though since I read them in arabic.

Also men in the sun!!!

books i can recommend by palestinian authors: forest of noise by mosab abu toha, [...]: Poems by fady joudah, against the loveless world by susan abulhawa, minor detail by adania shibli

Please don’t add One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. He “vigorously condemns” Palestinian resistance—even “despises” it (and all other “governing entities in the Middle East”) for its “violent ethos.”

A better book, imo, for discussing journalism and the genocide in Gaza from the perspective of a Western journalist is A Genocide Foretold by Chris Hedges. He doesn’t condemn Palestinian resistance (understanding and uplifting Palestinian resistance is a big part of the book) and he discusses Palestinians in a much more humanizing way than El Akkad (who only discusses Palestinians as dead bodies)—probably because Chris Hedges has been reporting from within the Palestinian Occupied Territories for decade (whereas El Akkad has never been there) ❤️

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Recommending The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem!

some more poetry recs: Rifqa, Mohammed El-Kurd Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi

Great list. I would like to recommend Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman. One of the best books I've ever read.

Voices of Resistence is a recently published one that is a collection of four women's diary entries from October 2023 through to I believe January 2025. Harrowing but very important

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé is also a good one!

Popping in to say it's Read Palestine Week! (29 Nov - 5 December) and you can get free books to read here at Publishers for Palestine ❤️🇵🇸

I'll be keeping an eye on this list!

looks good

add joe sacco and noam choosey!!

great list!

Love this! This is going to come in so handy for my reading circle. Please also add Mohammed El Kurd's Perfect Victims

Genocide Bad by Sim Kern was published by a Palestinian-American publisher. It goes into the history and debunks myths :D

The eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad is also good! It contains personal accounts of the ongoing genocide through the lens of the journalist (Plestia) after Oct 7

I would recommend Mornings in Jenin!

Thanks for the list!!

Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for this!

Hell yeah, big thank you for making this list ✊🏻🍊🍉🔻

You should also add Minor detail!! great book

'Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind' by Haider Eid is something I would recommend

Love this!

Thank you for the list, I have seen 'Letters from Gaza' people haven't read it personally. Just a suggestion. I have read Minor detail, and A woman is no man, a novel about women from conservative family living abroad.

I’m somewhere between actively reading through this list and preserving my mental health. It’s both extremely important and extremely heartbreaking and infuriating to read about Palestine. I think my sweet spot is to read 1 book on Palestine to 2 fiction novels as my ratio.

Anyway… FREE PALESTINE TILL IT’S BACKWARDS 🍉

add: gaza's gravediggers an investigation into corruption in high places by finkelstein

Hi! I would like to recommend "The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth" by Andreas Malm, if you're also adding books from non Palestinian authors :).

On another note, I don't know if this is the place to ask, but I also don't know where else to do it: I'd like to read more about the more ancient history of the territory and its people (both the middle east in general, which I know is a lot, and more specifically Palestine), and I don't know which books are better or even if there are any books covering this properly. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Should I ask this somewhere else like the Pagebound Club? Thank you anyways!!