As the month of June quickly approaches, it’s time to start thinking about your TBR for the month. In the announcement post, we mentioned a few places where you can find books written by Muslim authors, but we also wanted to create our own list of recommendations even though, between us, we haven’t read the majority of books on it. As always, this list is not exhaustive. We actually had to narrow it down!
We also tried to include books from across a range of genres and therefore this will be one half of a two-part post. Here, you’ll find recommendations for middle-grade, young adult and adult fiction. If you’re interested in non-fiction, poetry or graphic novels, you can find a list of these over on Zoya’s blog.
Many of the authors on this list have multiple works, which couldn’t all be listed for obvious reasons, so by clicking on the cover you will be directed to the author’s Goodreads page rather than that for the specific book.
MG / YA
ADULT
These are our recommendations! Don’t forget to check out part two of this post for non-fiction, poetry and graphic novels. Have you read any books written by these authors? Will you be reading any of the above next month? What other books would you recommend?
I didn’t know that Nadiya had written a book :’)
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Have you read Tight Rope by Sahar Abdulaziz? It is a really good book if you like suspense and political thrillers. 🙂 You can see my review of the book on my blog. 🙂
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I haven’t, but I’ve seen it promoted on social media recently. Will check out your review, thanks!
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love This new to your blog ! cannot wait to see what you do 🙂 also ramadan mubark
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Thank you, and Ramadan Mubarak to you too!
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I’ve seen She Wore Red Trainers around and I LOVED The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini though I’m yet to read his other books. Written in The Stars and An Ember In The Ashes are both on my TBR pile! Thanks ❤
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You should definitely read A Thousand Splendid Suns – it’s my favourite of all his books!
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I’ve read Fire Boy, both Sofia Khans and Exit West (still need to write my review for the last two, but I’ve got to post the reviews for Asian Lit Bingo this month first). Exit West’s review will be coming soon. I really enjoyed Fire Boy and Exit West, thy’re very different novels. I liked the form of writing scenes in Exit West, very staggered and uncertain, similar to how the characters felt. Fire Boy is just awesome!!! As is book two, Earth Boy.
The Sofia Khans were quite nice but I didn’t like the subtle aphobia, but that’s a common problem in all romance books. Still undecided how I’ll rate them as the majority of the book was great, ESPECIALLY the ending.
Sunbolt is the only book that I’ve already got on my Ramadan Readathon TBR because I already both it a few weeks ago.
I’m going to think about getting Ayesha Dean: The Istanbul Intrigue. The cover’s lovely.
I’ll have to have a proper look at this before choosing my books. Was there a certain number of books that we should read? A specific time to post the TBR?
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I don’t know why my comments are so long sometimes… I get excited when I talk about books!
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Looking forward to reading your reviews! There’s no specific number, or time to post your TBR. I’ll probably be reading around 5 books (which I haven’t completely decided on yet) and my own TBR will be posted just before the beginning of the month. If that’s anything to go by… 😂
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Ooh, thanks for the recs! I’m planning on reading Fire Boy and the second Sofia Khan, along with a couple of others 🙂
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No problem! I haven’t read either of those yet but I hope you enjoy them!
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Thanks for the rec’s. I’ve only read AEITA so far. And I only heard of 3 others. I’ll definitely put the rest on my tbr too.
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You’re welcome. I haven’t read many books on this list either!
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