SWANA Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of South West Asian and/or North African descent.
![Either/Or by Elif Batuman](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593587003_1120.jpg)
![Either/Or by Elif Batuman](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593587003_1120.jpg)
Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
Narrated by: Elif Batuman
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
“Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations.” —The New York Times
“Batuman is a genius, rendering human folly at its most colorful... Read more
![Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593587591_1120.jpg)
![Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593587591_1120.jpg)
Son of Elsewhere
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Narrated by: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges—and rewards—of finding one’s way in the world, from a BuzzFeed editor and podcast host.
“A memoir that is immense in its desire to give . . . a rich offering of image, of music, of... Read more
![The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan by Salma Hussain](http://covers.libro.fm/9781770499447_1120.jpg)
![The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan by Salma Hussain](http://covers.libro.fm/9781770499447_1120.jpg)
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
By: Salma Hussain
Narrated by: Asia Mattu
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Mona learns to find her voice over the course of a year that sees her immigrating from Dubai to Canada in this novel for fans of Front Desk by Kelly Yang.
Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn’t what she expects — “We didn’t even get any days off... Read more
![If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705058589_1120.jpg)
![If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705058589_1120.jpg)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Noor Naga
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire.
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living... Read more
![Arab Boy Delivered by Paul Aziz Zarou](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593557594_1120.jpg)
![Arab Boy Delivered by Paul Aziz Zarou](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593557594_1120.jpg)
Arab Boy Delivered
By: Paul Aziz Zarou
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
As Michael maneuvers through his working-class neighborhood delivering groceries, he enters the homes and lives of his customers. He’s confronted by the school yard and street corner violence of local thugs. With the 1967 Arab-Israeli War fresh in public memory, he passes for Greek or Italian and never summons the courage to explain, exactly,... Read more
View audiobook![Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063219977_1120.jpg)
![Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063219977_1120.jpg)
Honeybee
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Nye’s sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.”—Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us—family, friends, and complete strangers.Honey.... Read more
View audiobook![The Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063014190_1120.jpg)
![The Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063014190_1120.jpg)
The Turtle of Michigan
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and adjusts to a new life and a new school in the United States. A wonderful pick for... Read more
View audiobook![You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705051597_1120.jpg)
![You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705051597_1120.jpg)
You Truly Assumed
By: Laila Sabreen
Narrated by: Channie Waites, Tamika Katon-Donegal & Lynette ...
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
After a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths. Sabriya has trained hard for summer ballet auditions, so she’s devastated when everything is canceled after a terrorist attack. She takes solace in writing in her private online... Read more
View audiobook![No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797137728_1120.jpg)
![No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797137728_1120.jpg)
No Land to Light On
By: Yara Zgheib
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ali Andre Ali & Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street comes a “masterful story of tragedy and redemption” (Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses) “written in soul-searing prose” (BookPage, starred review) about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love on the cusp of their bright future when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s... Read more
View audiobook![White on White by Aysegül Savas](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593458778_1120.jpg)
![White on White by Aysegül Savas](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593458778_1120.jpg)
White on White
By: Aysegül Savas
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound” (Marina Abramović) novel about a woman who has come undone.
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio.
In... Read more
![Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063228337_1120.jpg)
![Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063228337_1120.jpg)
Believe Me
By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn’t easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with... Read more
View audiobook![More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410998_1120.jpg)
![More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410998_1120.jpg)
More Than I Love My Life
By: David Grossman
Narrated by: Gilli Messer
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land
“A magnificent book ... The way Grossman writes... Read more
![The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman by Melanie Magidow](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410936_1120.jpg)
![The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman by Melanie Magidow](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410936_1120.jpg)
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman
By: Melanie Magidow
Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known throughout the Middle East and long overdue to join world literature's pantheon of female heroes.
A Penguin Classic
A fearsome, sword-slinging heroine... Read more
![The Tightening Dark by Sam Farran & Benjamin Buchholz](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549101847_1120.jpg)
![The Tightening Dark by Sam Farran & Benjamin Buchholz](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549101847_1120.jpg)
The Tightening Dark
By: Sam Farran & Benjamin Buchholz
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This riveting memoir follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and thirty-year US Marine veteran who suffered a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen—and remained loyal to his country through it all. As air strikes carpeted Yemen's capital, Sam Farran was one of only a few Americans in the war-ravaged country. He was there to... Read more
View audiobook![The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063141193_1120.jpg)
![The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063141193_1120.jpg)
The Viscount Made Me Do It
By: Diana Quincy
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Diana Quincy returns with the second novel in her Clandestine Affairs series featuring a steamy romance between a working class London bonesetter who is dangerously attracted to her mysterious noble client. A seduction that could ruin everything... Hanna Zaydan has fought to become London’s finest bonesetter, but her darkly appealing new... Read more
View audiobook![What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593349274_1120.jpg)
![What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593349274_1120.jpg)
What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.
"Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely... Read more
![Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat](http://covers.libro.fm/9781541440319_1120.jpg)
![Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat](http://covers.libro.fm/9781541440319_1120.jpg)
Alligator and Other Stories
By: Dima Alzayat
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."
Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a... Read more
![People Like Them by Samira Sedira](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410837_1120.jpg)
![People Like Them by Samira Sedira](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593410837_1120.jpg)
People Like Them
By: Samira Sedira
Narrated by: Susan Nezami
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A prizewinning, "riveting" (The New York Times Book Review) psychological suspense novel inspired by a true story about a couple in an insular French village whose lives are upended when a family of outsiders moves in.
“Icy and chilling . . . In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the beauty of a small French village, and the shocking acts... Read more
![Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar](http://covers.libro.fm/9781649040442_1120.jpg)
![Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar](http://covers.libro.fm/9781649040442_1120.jpg)
Silence Is a Sense
By: Layla AlAmmar
Narrated by: Laura Sawahla
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." —The New York Times Book Review
A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war—and the healing power of community.
A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a... Read more
![The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705243923_1120.jpg)
![The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705243923_1120.jpg)
The Book of Collateral Damage
By: Sinan Antoon
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory
Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the... Read more
![The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha & Irene Latham](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593342015_1120.jpg)
![The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha & Irene Latham](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593342015_1120.jpg)
The Cat Man of Aleppo
By: Karim Shamsi-Basha & Irene Latham
Narrated by: Ramsey Faragallah
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The Caldecott Honor-winning true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War courageously offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats.
Aleppo's city center no longer echoes with the rich, exciting sounds of copper-pot pounding and traditional sword sharpening. His neighborhood is empty--except for the many cats... Read more
![This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593341025_1120.jpg)
![This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593341025_1120.jpg)
This is All Your Fault
By: Aminah Mae Safi
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia & Aminah Mae Safi
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Set over the course of one day, Aminah Mae Safi's This Is All Your Fault is a smart and voice-driven YA novel that follows three young women determined to save their indie bookstore.
Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she's in love with him.
Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it's... Read more
![Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593170335_1120.jpg)
![Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593170335_1120.jpg)
Conditional Citizens
By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Laila Lalami
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American... Read more
![Out of Mesopotamia by Salar Abdoh](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666541458_1120.jpg)
![Out of Mesopotamia by Salar Abdoh](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666541458_1120.jpg)
Out of Mesopotamia
By: Salar Abdoh
Narrated by: Sean Rohani
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Saleh Abdoh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows, but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and,... Read more
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