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Jackie Khalilieh

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JACKIE KHALILIEH is a Palestinian-Canadian writer with a love of nineties pop culture, Dad jokes, and warm and fuzzy romance. Like many autistic females, she received her diagnosis as an adult. She is passionate about positive representation within her writing. She currently resides just outside Toronto, Canada with her husband and two daughters, complaining nightly about having to cook dinner. Something More is her debut YA novel.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 4,112 ratings · 1,512 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Something More really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,041 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Started It 3.86 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Comes Back to You 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Seven Days in June

by Tia Williams (Goodreads Author)

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Jackie Khalilieh said: " Repeating what I wrote on threads:

I'm currently reading Seven Days in June by Tia Williams and the nuance, layers, depth, lived experience, culture, language, voice, the richness of the storytelling is not something a non Black author could have eve ...more "

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Lying in the Deep

by Diana Urban (Goodreads Author)

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Love Letters to the Dead

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“No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind.”
― Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

tags: autism, mental-health, relatable

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“Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them.”
― Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

tags: bipoc, inspirational, palestine, racism

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“I’d introduce you guys, but we’re not really at the ‘meeting each other’s friends’ stage, you know?” Of course not. That would make it too easy for us to identify him in a police lineup.”
― Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

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