World History Reading List: World Wars
World War I
The Man From St. Petersburg by Ken Follett
*After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
*The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
*Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
*War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
World War II
*Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
*When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
*Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Echoes From the Infantry: A Novel by Frank Nappi
*Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
The Wall by John Hersey
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
*Desert Exile by Yoshiko Uchida
*Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson
*Under a War-Torn Sky by Laura M. Elliot
*Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
*I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant
*A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
*If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
*Blizcat by Robert Westall
*The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Disguised: A Wartime Memoir by Rita de Clercq Zubli
*The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
*Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer
*Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas
*The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
*The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
*Fire in the Hills by Donna Jo Napoli
The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
The End of War: A Novel of the Race for Berlin by David L. Robbins
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
*Heroes Don’t Run: A Novel of the Pacific War by Harry Mazer
*Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes
*Rumors of War by Dean Hughes
When Duty Whispers Low by John J. Gobbell
The Burning Mountain by Alfred Coppel
*Surviving the Angel of Death by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek (NF)
The Persimmon Tree by Bruce Courtenay
No-No Boy by Joe Okada
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
*B for Buster by Ian Lawrence
Friedrich by Han Peter Richter
Going Solo by Robert Dahl (NF)
The Hiding Place by Corie Ten Boom (NF)
*I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand (NF)
World History Reading List: Cross-Region and The Immigrant Experience
Cross-Region
*The Blood Stone by Jamila Gavin
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen (NF)
The India Fan by Vic toria Holt
The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood
Samurai by Endo Shasaku
Deep River by Endo Shasaku
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape of Vietnam by Andrew X.
Pham
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (NF)
Brother Fish by Bruce Courtenay
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary (NF)
Tulagi Hotel by Heikki Hietala
*Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang
The Immigrant Experience
*A Group of One by Rachna Gilmore
*Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
*Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
*First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins
*The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen by Mitali Perkins
*Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
*Children of the River by Linda Crew
The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna Catherine Scott
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao
*A Step From Heaven by An Na
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Macho! by Victor Villasenor
*Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Travino Hart
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
*Jumping Off to Freedom by Anilu Bernardo
*Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez
*The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
*Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
*The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
*Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Seth
*Looking for Bapu by Anjali Banerjee
*Red Glass by Laura Resau
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
World History Reading List: South, Southeast, and Central Asia
Afghanistan
*Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
*Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
*Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart (NF)
Lie Down With Lions by Ken Follett
Caravans by James Michener
Charlie Wilson’s War by Ceorge Crile (NF)
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Come Back to Afghanistan by Said Hyder Akbar (NF)
*Mud City by Deborah Ellis
*Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar (NF)
Australia
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
*Everlasting by Angie Frazier
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
Solomon’s Song by Bryce Courtenay
Bangladesh
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Fireflies in the Mist by Qurratulain Hyder
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Cambodia
*The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho
*To Destroy You Is No Loss by Joan Criddle
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (NF)
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him (NF)
On the Wings of a White Horse by Oni Vitandham (NF)
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors
India
*Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins
*Shiva’s Fire by Suzanne Fisher Staples
*Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
*Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet by Kashmira Seth
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Space Between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
Raj by Gita Mehta
Water: A Novel by Bapsi Sidhwa
Riot: A Love Story by Shashi Tharoor
Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden
*Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
*Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
Nine Lives by William Dalrymple (NF)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (NF)
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
There is Room for You by Charlotte Bacon
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
*No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis
*Karma by Cathy Ostlere
*Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed
*Sold by Pamela McCormick
Tell a Thousand Lies by Rasana Atreya
Indonesia
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout
Myanmar (Burma)
Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
*Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
New Zealand
Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
Pakistan
In the Name of Honor: A Memoir by Mukhtar Mai (NF)
Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie
*Broken Moon by Kim Antieau
*Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Amjed Qamar
Dizzy in Karachi: A Journey to Pakistan by Maliha Masood (NF)
Philippines
Dusk: A Novel by F. Sionil Jose
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Vietnam
Paradise of the Blind: A Novel by Thu Huong Duong
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
*The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White
*Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
*Song of the Buffalo Boy by Sherry Garland
*Search and Destroy by Dean Hughes
What It’s Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (NF)
*Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Eaves of Heaven: A life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham (NF)
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
World History Reading List: Africa
Say You’re One of Them by Uwen Akpan
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King (NF)
Algeria
In the Name of God by Yasmina Khadra
Egypt
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
Year of the Hyenas by Brad Geagley
The Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge
Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale by Amitav Ghosh (NF)
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
*The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Ethiopia
*Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurz
Kenya
Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa‘Thiong’o
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
Liberia
*Abe in Arm by Pegi Deitz Shea
Nigeria
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Everything Good Will Come: A Novel by Sefi Atta
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta
Rwanda
*Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed Wit h Our Families by Phillip Gourevitch (NF)
Sierra Leone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Somalia
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller (NF)
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden (NF)
Hostage Three Nick Lake
South Africa
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (NF)
The Wilderness Family: At Home With Africa’s Wildlife by Kobie Kruger (NF)
*Chanda’s Secrest by Allan Stratton
*Chanda’s Wars by Allan Stratton
The Power of One by Bryce Courtney
My Traitor’s Heart by Rian Malan (NF)
*Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
The Covenant by James Michener
Sudan
*Year of No Rain by Alice Mead
*A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Uganda
*Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
*Angel of Mercy by Lurlene McDaniel
Zimbabwe
*A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (NF)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
World History Reading List: Continental Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
April Fool’s Day by Josip Novakovich
The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
France
*Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici by Carolyn Meyer
*Curse of a Winter Moon by Mary Casanova
*Cecile: Gates of Gold by Mary Casanova
The Many Lives of Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
*The Burning Time by Carol Matas
To Dance With Kings by Rosalind Laker
Phantom by Susan Kay
*Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb
*Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Nancy Garden
The Children of Freedom by Marc Levy
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
Germany
*The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina
Rosa by Jonathan Rabb
Floating in My Mother’s Palm by Ursula Hegi
Greece
*Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney
*Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War by Clemence
McLaren and Joel Peter Johnson
*Ariadne, Awake! By Doris Orgel
*Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
Black Ships by Jo Graham
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Hungary
*I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener (NF)
Italy
*The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff
A Place in the Hills by Michelle Paver
The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw
Render Unto Caesar by Gillian Bradshaw
Cleopatra’s Heir by Gillian Bradshaw
*The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
Rubicon by Steven Saylor
His Majesty’s Elephant by Judith Tarr
Imperium by Robert Harris
The Accusers by Lindsey Davis
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
*On Etruscan Time by Tracy Barrett
Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas
Kosovo
*Girl of Kosovo by Alice Mead
*The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson
Netherlands
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
Russia
St. Petersburg by Andrey Bely (sometimes spelled Biely)
Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
*Anastasia by Carolyn Meyer
*Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
*Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan
November 1916: The Red Wheel by H.T. Willets
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Time after Time by Allan Appel
*A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
*The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller
*Between Shades of Gray by Ruth Sepetys
Spain
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Garriel Kay
*Secrets in the House of Delgado by Gloria D. Miklowitz
By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
*Incantation by Alice Hoffman
World History Reading List: The Americas
Argentina
*The Dirty War by Charles Slaughter
*Life, After by Sarah Littman
Barbados
*Star-Crossed by Linda Collison
Brazil
*Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman
Pen, Sword, Camisole: A Fable to Kindle a Hope by Jorge Amado
*Keeper by Mal Peet
Canada
*Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
*Paradise by Joan Elizabeth Goodman
*Far North by Will Hobbs
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Chile
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
*Gringolandia by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Cuba
Betrayal Game by David L. Robbins
Dominican Republic
*Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
*The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
Ecuador
Savages by Joe Kane (NF)
El Salvador
Bitter Grounds: A Novel by Sandra Benitez
The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez
*Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple
Haiti
All Souls’ Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
*Tonight, By Sea by Frances Temple
*Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
*Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
*Taste of Salt by Frances Temple
Jamaica
*Blue Mountain Trouble by Martin Mordecai
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
*Pirates! by Celia Rees
World History Reading List: The United Kingdom
Britain
*The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose by Mary Hooper
*Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
London by Edward Rutherfurd
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
*Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
*The King’s Swift Rider by Mollie Hunter
Legacy by Susan Kay
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
*Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
*The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
*Outcaste by Rosemary Sutcliff
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
*A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
*The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
Circle of Pearls by Rosalind Laker
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
*The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn
*Sign of the Raven by Julie Hearn
*At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper
*Petals in the Ashes by Mary Hooper
*Forged in the Fire by Ann Turnbull
*Queen’s Own Fool by Jane Yolen
*A Song For Summer by Eva Ibbotson
*Ship of Fire by Michael Cadnum
Dark North by Gillian Bradshaw
*Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
*Cromwell’s Boy by Erik Christian Haugaard
*Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
Good King Harry by Denise Giardina
Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery by C.J. Sansom
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge
The Devil’s Company by David Liss
Katherine by Anya Seton
Devil Water by Anya Seton
Avalon by Anya Seton
The Mistletoe and Sword by Anya Seton
Death of the Fox by George Garrett
Entered From the Sun: The Murder of Marlowe by George Garrett
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (NF)
In a Treacherous Court by Michelle Diener
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
*Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
*Lady Macbeth’s Daughter by Lisa Klein
My Enemy the Queen by Victoria Holt
*Grace by Jill Paton Walsh
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Queen’s Rival by Diane Haeger
Shadow of the Crown by Patricia Bracewell
Ireland
Border Crossings by Carole Bellacera
1972: A Novel of Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution by Morgan Llywelyn
1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State by Morgan Llywelyn
1921 by Morgan Llywelyn
Spotlight by Carole Bellacera
*Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
*Over the Water by Maude Casey
World History Reading List: East Asia
China
*Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (NF)
Dream of the Walled City by Lisa Huang Fleischman
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler (NF)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord
*Forbidden City: A Novel of Modern China by William Bell
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Shanghai Station by Bartle Bull
Tell Me No Lies by Elizabeth Lowell
Dragon Bones: A Novel by Lisa See
*The Golden Rat by Don Wulffson
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler (NF)
*Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
*The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse (NF)
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Paul Hessler (NF)
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Myer (NF)
Tai Pan by James Clavell
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
Years of Red Dust by Qiu Xiaolong
Japan
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan Eiji Yoshikawa
The Way of the Traitor by Laura Joh Rowland
*The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard
Black Rain by Masujii Ibuse
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
*Samurai Shortstop by Alan M. Gratz
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
*The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
*The Revenge of the Forty Seven Samurai by Erik Christian Haugaard
*The Boy and the Samurai by Erik Christian Haugaard
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
*In Darkness, Death by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Kill the Shogun: A Samurai Mystery by Dale Furutani
One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura
Death at the Crossroads by Dale Furutani
The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama]
*Little Sister by Kara Dalkey
Island of Exiles by I.J. Parker
Rashomon Gate by I.J. Parker
The Doctor’s Wife by Anyoshi Sawako
Korea
*A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
*Wait for Me by An Na
*Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
*Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul Choi
This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park
Escape From Camp Fourteen by Blaine Harden (NF)
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (NF)
*The Long Season of Rain by Helen Kim
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin and Chi-Young Kim
Mongolia
*I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson
The Death of Attila by Cecelia Holland
Until the Sun Falls by Cecelia Holland
Taiwan
The Third Son by Julie Wu
World History Reading List: The Middle East
Iran
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
*Dawn and Dusk by Alice Mead
*Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
*Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher
*Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
*Anahita’s Woven Riddleby Meghan Nuttal Sayres
Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir by Abbas Milani (NF)
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd (NF)
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Sky of Red Poppies by Zobreh Ghahremani
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee
Iraq
*Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
*Gulf by Robert Westall
Outcast by Shimon Ballas
Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London by Haifa Zangana
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (NF)
*Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (NF)
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson (NF)
Joanna of Kurdistan by Jean Sasson (NF)
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI by Ryan Smithson (NF)
One Hundred and One Nights by Benjamin Buchholz
*Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows by Brian Castner (NF)
Israel and Palestine/The Historical Holy Land
*Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass
Palestine by Joe Sacco and Edward Said
The Dagger and the Cross: A Novel of the Crusades by Judith Tarr
The Scar of David by Susan Abulhawa
Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh (NF)
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi (NF)
*The Weight of the Sky by Lisa Ann Sandell
Devil’s Bargain by Judith Tarr
Queen of Swords by Judith Tarr
The Source by James Michener
The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
*The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
*Masada: The Last Fortress by Gloria D. Miklowitz
*Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean
*Salome by Beatrice Gormley
Book of Abraham by Marek Halter
*Daughters of the Desert by Claire Rudolf Murphy, Sarah Conover, Meghan Sayles, and Mary Farrell
*After the War by Carol Matas
*Light Years by Tammar Stein
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman (NF)
*Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
*A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (NF)
Saudi Arabia
Finding Nouf (AKA The Night of the Mi’raj) by Zoe Ferraris
City of Veils by Zoe Farraris
The Strong Horse by Lee Smith (NF)
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson (NF)
Syria
*In the Name of God by Paula Jolin
*A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami
Turkey
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope by David Kherdian (NF)
Stone Woman by Tariq Ali
*Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett