Reading Guides

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  1. Book ImageArabian Jazz

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    "This oracular first novel, which unfurls like gossamer [has] characters of a depth seldom found in a debut."—The New YorkerMore

  2. Book ImageOrigin

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    “Finally, a novel of literary suspense that gets almost everything right—forensically and psychologically.”—Sarah Weinman, Baltimore SunMore

  3. Book ImageCrescent

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    "Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

  4. Book ImageBirds of Paradise

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    “A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber’s] table.”—Ron Charles, Washington PostMore

  5. Book ImageOne Hundred Names for Love

    Diane Ackerman

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    Finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award

    "A testament to the power of creativity in language, life—and love." —Heller McAlpin, Washington PostMore

  6. Book ImageThe Zookeeper's Wife

    Diane Ackerman

    2008 Orion Book Award

    The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

  7. Book ImageMeeting Faith

    Faith Adiele

    A wry account of the road from Harvard scholarship student to ordination as northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun.More

  8. Book ImageRotten English

    Dohra Ahmad

    A global anthology of fiction and poetry in vernacular English.More

  9. Book ImageI, The Divine

    Rabih Alameddine

    Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly incomplete. More

  10. Book ImageLeela's Book

    Alice Albinia

    With a nod to the Indian masterpiece the Mahabharata, a multithraded, raucous epic about family and faith.More

  11. Book ImageLeela's Book

    Alice Albinia

    “Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining.”—The Times (London)More

  12. Book ImageGenesis

    Robert Alter

    Robert Alter sets a new standard in the translation of this formative book of the Hebrew Bible.More

  13. Book ImageThe Sari Shop

    Rupa Bajwa

    "An impressive debut, full of lean and lyrical prose." —Ligaya Mishan, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  14. Book ImageThe Salt Letters

    Christine Balint

    The sensuous evocation of a young woman's sea journey from refined England to the wilds of Australia.More

  15. Book ImageOphelia's Fan

    Christine Balint

    "Reconstructs the vibrantly intoxicating atmosphere of the theatrical world in the early nineteenth century. Lavishly romantic." --BooklistMore

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