Arab American Book Awards
What are the Arab American Book Awards?
The Arab American Book Awards are given every year to outstanding books written by or about Arab Americans. It was "established in 2006 in partnership with librarians from the University of Toledo, and the mission is to celebrate Arab American literature and honor those who have produced exemplary work."
The award is given out every Fall.
Adult Fiction
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Call Number: PR9199.4.N338 I4 20222023 Adult Fiction winner (tie)
Master of the Eclipse by 2010 Adult Fiction winner
Loom : A Novel by Call Number: ebook
Birds of Paradise by 2012 Fiction winner
Lebanese Blonde by 2013 Adult Fiction winner
The Corpse Washer by 2014 Adult Fiction winner
An Unnecessary Woman by 2015 Adult Fiction winner (tie)
The Angel of History by 2017 Adult Fiction winner
As Good As True by 2019 Adult Fiction winner (tie)
In the Country of Men by 2007 Adult Fiction winner
Remember Me to Lebanon : Stories of Lebanese Women in America by 2008 Adult Fiction winner
A Map of Home by 2009 Adult Fiction winner
Adult Non-Fiction
When We Were Arabs : A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History by 2020 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Between the Ottomans and the Entente : The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 by 2020 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Arab Routes : pathways to Syrian California by Call Number: ebook2021 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Stories My Father Told Me : Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon by 2021 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Don't Forget Us Here : Lost and Found at Guantanamo by 2022 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Call Number: ebook2022 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Muslims of the Heartland : how Syrian immigrants made a home in the American midwest by 2023 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Hadha Baladuna : Arab American narratives of boundary and belonging by 2023 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
The Right Kind of Suffering : gender, sexuality, and Arab asylum seekers in America by 2024 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Love Across Borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world by 2024 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Angeleno Days : An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics by 2010 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Arab Americans in Toledo by 2011 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Arab & Arab American feminisms : gender, violence, & belonging by Call Number: ebook2012 Adult Non-Fiction winner
House of Stone : A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by 2013 Adult Non-Fiction winner
We Are Iraqis : aesthetics and politics in a time of war by Call Number: ebook2014 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Old Islam in Detroit : rediscovering the Muslim American past by 2015 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Handbook of Arab American Psychology by 2016 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
This Muslim American Life : dispatches from the War on Terror by Call Number: ebook and E184.M88 B39 20152016 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
Inter/Nationalism : decolonizing Native America and Palestine by 2017 Adult Non-Fiction winner
The Rise of the Arab American Left : Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s by Call Number: ebook2018 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo : From the Levant to Brazil by Call Number: ebook2019 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
The Sound of Listening : poetry as refuge and resistance by Call Number: ebook2019 Adult Non-Fiction winner (tie)
The Iron Cage : the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood by Call Number: DS113.6 .K365 20072007 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Another Arabesque : Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil by 2008 Adult Non-Fiction winner
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? : being young and Arab in America by Call Number: E184.A65 B35 20092009 Adult Non-Fiction winner
Children / Young Adult
I Was Their American Dream : a graphic memoir by Call Number: PN6727.G5 Z46 20192020 Children / Young Adult winner
The Arabic Quilt : an immigrant story by 2021 Children / Young Adult winner (tie)
Farah Rocks Fifth Grade by Call Number: PZ7.1.D3353 Far 20202021 Children / Young Adult winner (tie)
Arab Arab All Year Long! by 2023 Children's Literature winner
Homeland : my father dreams of Palestine by 2024 Children's Literature winner
Old Enough to Know by 2024 Young Adult winner
Saving Sky by 2011 Children or Young Adult winner
Hands Around the Library by 2013 Children / Young Adult winner
A Kid's Guide to Arab American History by 2014 Children / Young Adult winner
The Turtle of Oman by 2015 Children / Young Adult winner
The Treasure of Maria Mamoun by 2017 Children / Young Adult winner
I've Loved You since Forever by 2019 Children / Young Adult winner
One Green Apple by 2007 Children or Young Adult winner
Tasting the Sky : A Palestinian Childhood by 2008 Children or Young Adult winner
Honeybee : poems & short prose by 2009 Children and Young Adult winner
Poetry
- A Book with a Hole in It by2024 Poetry winner
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea by 2010 Poetry winner
Tocqueville by 2011 Poetry winner
Atrium by 2013 Poetry winner
A Concordance of Leaves by 2014 Poetry winner
Tahrir Suite by 2015 Poetry winner
Something Sinister by 2017 Poetry winner
Breaking Poems by 2009 Poetry winner
