Books for Everyone on Israel and Palestine
This list of books available through the BCCLS Consortium has been curated by our librarians. The list has materials for adults, teens and children, and includes fiction and nonfiction titles. In keeping with our Mission, it is designed to connect you, our patrons, to information, ideas and culture; it is for everyone.
Books for Adults
Nonfiction
Abusalim, Jehad. Light in Gaza: Writings born of fire.
Amiry, Suad. Sharon and My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries.
Bashir, Yousef Khalil. The Words of my father: love and pain in Palestine.
Bayoumi, Moustafa. How does it feel to be a problem? : being young and Arab in America.
Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace not apartheid.
Chomsky, Noam. On Palestine.
Fersko, Diana. We need to talk about antisemitism.
Grossman, David. The yellow wind.
Johnson, Paul. A history of the Jews.
Kaufmann, Uri R. Eighteen days of October: the Yom Kippur War and how it created to modern Middle East.
Keret, Etgar. Suddenly, a knock on the door.
Kershner, Isabel. The Land of hope and fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul.
Khalidi, Rashid. The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017.
Loewenstein, Antony The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.
Meir, Golda. My life.
Oren, Michael. Six days of war.
Scott-Baumann, Michael. The shortest history of Israel and Palestine : from Zionism to Intifadas and the struggle for peace.
Shavit, Ari. My promised land: The triumph and tragedy of Israel.
Tessler, Mark. A history of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Thrall, Nathan. A day in the life of Abed Salama : anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy.
Tishby, Noa. Israel: A simple guide to the most misunderstood country on earth.
Tolan, Sandy. The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East.
Yousef, Mosab Hassan. Son of Hamas : a gripping account of terror, betrayal, political intrigue, and unthinkable choices.
Fiction
Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin.
Alyan, Hala. Salt Houses.
Grossman, David. To the end of the land.
Khalilieh, Jackie. Something More.
Oz, Amos. A tale of love and darkness.
Yehoshua, A.B. The Lover.
Yehoshua, A.B. Mr. Mani.
Books for Children and Teens
Nonfiction
Alrawi, Karim. Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook.
Aronson, Marc. Unsettled: The Problem of Loving Israel.
Kassis, Reem. We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition.
Laird, Elizabeth. Folktales for a Better World.
Moushabeck, Hannah. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine.
Peterson, Christie. Welcome to Israel with Sesame Street.
Tolan, Sandy. The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East (young reader’s edition.
Fiction
Balsey, Tilda. It’s a Mitzvah, Grover!
Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar. Wishing upon the same stars.
Friedman, Maya. 3 Falafels in My Pita.
Gilani-Williams, Fawzi. Yaffa and Fatima.
Mattar, Malak. Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story.
Murad, Nora Lester. Ida in the Middle.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti’s Secrets.
Press, J.P. Welcome to Arabic with Sesame Street.
Press, J.P. Welcome to Hebrew with Sesame Street.
Sassoon, Sarah. Shoham’s Bangle.
Sussman, Joni. Grover Goes to Israel.