To Read
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan
“Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an by Asma Barlas
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
White Mughals: Love and Betrayl in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil by Katherine Bullock
Cringe by Sarah Brown
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
A Case of Exploding Mangos by Mohammed Hanif
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands by Rachel Shabi
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Corner Shop by Roopa Farooki
The Tsarina’s Daughter by Carolly Erickson
Girl Most Likely To by Poonam Sharma
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar
The Fire Gospel by Michael Faber
The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
The View from Garden City by Carolyn Baugh
Black Ships by Jo Graham
Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Year Zero by Jeff Long
The Reckoning by Jeff Long
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
Abraham on Trial by Carol Delaney
Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Accidental Pope: A Novel by Raymond Flynn
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler
The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby
At the Drop of a Veil by Marianne Alireza
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy
The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford
The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
God’s Politics by Jim Wallis
Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni
Immortal by Traci L. Slatton
The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner
The Blue Notebook by James Levine
Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
The Way Home by George Pelecanos
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
Roanoke by Lee Miller
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
I have read Candide, Atonement, and The Sound of Language. All very good stories. I especially enjoyed The Sound of Language. You have some good reading to look forward to on this list.