Novels & Short stories

Netochka Nezvanova Author's name: Dostoevsky Translated by Sami Al-Daroubi Netochka Nezvanova is a miserable Russian girl. We know this from noting that the name Nezvanova is derived from Nezvanoy, which in Russian means uninvited. This novel, which Fedor did not complete due to his...

In My Heart, a Hebrew Girl  I met Nada, the novel's protagonist, on the pages of an online forum. She recounted her story, which brought tears to my eyes. I left the forum, but the story never left me. After a while, the idea...

Ithma "We will start the game, Isa, together... You have nine commands and nine treasures until you find me." On Isa's thirty-sixth birthday, after a desperate struggle with life that led to his crushing defeat, he receives a gift from the last person he...

Shaima and other hearts Author's name: Alia Al-Kazemi I wish to get away... I wish to depart, to the far away... Where silence liberates me, to make my lonely heart happy. Alia Al-Kadhimi, in continuation of the success of the novel, “Oh, His Distance,”...

dear Author's name: Alia Al-Kazemi Her eyes met his... and she saw in his eyes a torment like hers... and a confusion like hers... Oh God, how they met together! It was as if they were from two different worlds, and both of them...

The Complex A strange novel... very strange   Author: Abdulwahab Al-Sayed Al-Rifaie   You are no one... when you are like everyone else... and the first step to being different is to keep your secrets to yourself... and maintain a distance from everyone around...

magnanimity Author's name: Alia Al-Kazemi The heroine of the novel is (Shahama), who lives up to her name. She is a responsible daughter, a caring sister, and a wonderful mother, with a story of love, marriage, and great loss.

Hypnotist Author's name: Larsh Kepler A thrilling detective novel that begins with a horrific crime against a father, mother, and their young daughter. The perpetrator dismembers their bodies, and the teenage son is found critically injured, while the eldest daughter is nowhere to be...

traveler Author's name: Olga Tokarczuk Life and death, movement, and migration. Here, we see Chopin's sister embark on a perilous journey to secretly return his heart to Warsaw after his death. We see a woman return to her native Poland to inject poison into...

Maybe in another life Author Name: Taylor Jenkins Reid A breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after running into an old flame. In alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold, with startlingly different outcomes....

The objector Author Name: Graham Moore It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, disappears on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African-American man, is the prime suspect....

Tsukuru Tazari Colorless and his years of pilgrimage Author's name: Haruki Murakami Five high school friends who are almost inseparable. Coincidentally, their names all refer to a color. The first is Akamatsu (meaning: red pine), the second is Omi (meaning: blue sea), the third...

Women's Charter Author's name: Hanin Al-Sayegh Governed by fear and powerlessness, Amal Bounemr lives a conservative rural life in her Druze village in Mount Lebanon, where many of life's questions escape into religiosity and isolation. Her father, a sheikh by profession and a blacksmith,...

On the bed of life Author's name: Sarah Al-Nams With tranquilizers and a notebook, Assia tries to repair her mind and reassemble it piece by piece, after living an experience against her will; a thorny experience between something considered miraculous and a daily narration...

Nour's Diary Author's name: Shukri Al-Mabkhout As I await my fortieth birthday in a few days, what can I tell myself about what I have done with my life? I need to sort out my feelings and organize my thoughts. I feel a stifling...

Thursday Club Murder Club Author's Name: Richard Osman Four men in their seventies with a few tricks up their sleeve; a policewoman with her first big case; and a gruesome murder: Welcome to the Thursday Murder Club! In a quiet retirement village, friends meet...

In this novel, Nouha Dawood deviates from her usual realistic writing style to offer readers an intriguing blend of reality and imagination. The protagonist, Safaa, resides in Building 47 and has battled clinical depression for years, striving to recover for the sake of her...

Night companions Author's name: Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Now you know the story, Sami, and you know why I took you to the cemetery at night, and you know why you're bound and gagged next to it now... My story is over and it's time...

Lords of the Earth Between two worlds Author's name: Rajin Muslim An epic novel between humans and jinn in ancient civilizations, wars and conflicts over kingship and sovereignty, interspersed with drama and suspense.

Red Moon Part 1 The Legend of the Non-Human Author's name: Ghada Ahmed Red Moon, a massive novel and a series of several parts, depicts life between humans and "non-humans", psychological conflicts, plots and conspiracies, bloody wars, hatred and revenge, myths and prophecies, and...