My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiSamarkand by Amin Maalouf
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 472 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Author Biographies and Memoirs
425 books — 124 voters

The Open Door by Latifa Al ZayyatTwo Women in One by Nawal El SaadawiIf an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor NagaWild Thorns by Sahar KhalifehThese are not Oranges, My Love by Iman Mersal
Fiction by Arab Women
93 books — 5 voters
The Open Door by Latifa Al ZayyatThe Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al AswanyTwo Women in One by Nawal El SaadawiEmerald Wounds by Joyce MansourWarda by Sonallah Ibrahim
Books by and about Egyptians!
40 books — 5 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,748 books — 1,621 voters

Freshwater by Akwaeke EmeziNevada by Imogen BinnieAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonO Mapa de Sal e Estrelas by Zeyn JoukhadarO Parque das Irmãs Magníficas by Camila Sosa Villada
Enby/Trans-spec Authors
202 books — 74 voters
After Dark by Haruki MurakamiPsycho by Robert BlochPaprika by Yasutaka TsutsuiLa luz negra by María GainzaRuined Map by Kōbō Abe
Novels That Remind Me Of David Lynch
22 books — 7 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonA Head Full of Ghosts by Paul TremblayPsycho by Robert BlochPaprika by Yasutaka TsutsuiSolaris by Stanisław Lem
If you liked Twin Peaks...
42 books — 16 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
Best Surrealist Literature
262 books — 207 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiAfter Dark by Haruki MurakamiPsycho by Robert BlochPaprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Books Like Twin Peaks
50 books — 31 voters
Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleOur Lady of Darkness by Fritz LeiberSong for the Unraveling of the World by Brian EvensonDagon by Fred Chappell
Cosmic Horror
90 books — 9 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiDead Silence by S.A. BarnesThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  Starling
Niche Horror
20 books — 7 voters

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihHuman Acts by Han KangMornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaThe Meursault Investigation by Kamel DaoudI, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
Decolonizing Literature
44 books — 2 voters

Orientalism by Edward W. SaidDiscourse on Colonialism by Aimé CésaireBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Decolonize Art and Academy
41 books — 6 voters

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonDiscourse on Colonialism by Aimé CésaireThe Invention of Africa by V.Y. Mudimbe
Decolonizing the mind
45 books — 10 voters



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