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Hanan Al Shaykh's Reading List

The novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, author most recently of "The Occasional Virgin," avoids reading books longer than 800 pages "unless they are written by my friends."

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By the Book: Hanan Al Shaykh (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-07-05).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Death in Spring
Death in Spring
Mercè Rodoreda · Buy on Amazon
"I was hypnotized, bewitched by the beauty of the prose... although I knew that it was leading me to something sinister but powerful, a realization of the reality of life and death."
Cover of The Cairo Trilogy
The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz · Buy on Amazon
Cities of Salt
Abdul Rahman Munif · Buy on Amazon
The Wedding of Zein
Tayeb Salih · Buy on Amazon
The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
Emile Habibi · Buy on Amazon
Cover of A History of the Arab Peoples
A History of the Arab Peoples
Albert Hourani · Buy on Amazon
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf · Buy on Amazon
Boredom
Alberto Moravia · Buy on Amazon
"As I was reading it in its Arabic translation in the mid-1960s, I told myself, "So one can write about anything, even about his own boredom, himself, or social alienation." I loved the narrator's tone, as if I was hearing him talking to me."
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
Melissa Fleming · Buy on Amazon
""A Hope More Powerful than the Sea," by Melissa Fleming, the story of a Syrian woman refugee in search of a better life. It will help the prime minister relate to refugees as individuals and not as a mere word."

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