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Resurrection Author's name: Leo Tolstoy The novel "Resurrection" does not pay attention to what many novelists do, who try to craft beauty from their words and meanings. I also have no doubt that this novel is a direct statement that does not gravitate toward...

perfume The story of a killer Author's name: Patrick Süskind In the eighteenth century, there lived in France a man who belonged to the most brilliant and odious beings of that era. An era that could not have lacked such beings. The story of...

All people are liars Author's name: Alberto Manguel A poor devil with a troubled childhood, a literary genius and an irresistible seducer, an ordinary man disguised as a hero, a simple and honest impersonator... Which of these faces is the true face of Alejandro...

I'm back looking for you Author's name: Guillaume Musso Hurry up for life, hurry up for love, because you don't know how much time is left in your lifespan. We always think we have enough time, but the truth is otherwise. One day, we...

The Book of Disquiet Author's name: Fernando Pessoa It is a prose text that immortalizes the daily life of the Portuguese poet and writer Fernando Pessoa, who escapes from a reality fraught with the plagues of anxiety, boredom, despair and brokenness. The title of...

I am Malala I fought for the right to education and the Taliban tried to kill me. Author's name: Malala Yousafzai She is seventeen years old, the daughter of the Afghan Pashtun tribe known for its courage, strength, strength, severity and generosity. She is...

The betrayed wills Author's name: Milan Kundera The art of the novel is the main protagonist of this book, and the humor from which it was born, its hidden relationship with music as well, its history that takes place in three eras, the aesthetics...

joke Author's name: Milan Kundera I'll tell you something: He lived in Geneva, when Calvin was its lord, a clever and joking boy. His notebooks, filled with jokes about Jesus Christ and the Bible, fell into the hands of the authorities. No doubt this...

ignorance Author's name: Milan Kundera Ignorance proves to be a captivating novel, and Kundera slaps us with his inevitable and disturbing truths, pessimistic and dreamy, about communism, human relationships, marital relations, romantic misunderstandings, and so much more. But how can one approach so many...

I'm coming light Author's name: Mohamed Abu Al-Gheit I found myself not writing a sick person's diary; rather, I write about events and feelings, what I experienced and what I learned, an autobiography for me and my generation as well. Without realizing it, my...

Land of God Author's name: Ahmed Murad In the spring of 1924, after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, Howard Carter rushed to the British Consulate in Cairo without prior notice, demanding diplomatic intervention to compel the Egyptian authorities to renew the excavation permit,...

The Graveyard Book Author's Name: Neil Gaiman One of the most enjoyable books for young adults, wonderfully translated by our great writer, Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. Nobody Owens, better known as "Bud," is an ordinary boy. But he's not entirely ordinary. He lives in...

Sleeping at the foot of the mountain Author's name: Hamour Ziada It is a collection of short stories by Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziada, and the text from which the international film "You Will Die at Twenty" was taken, directed by Sudanese film director Amjad...

drowning Tales of oppression and companionship Author's name: Hamour Ziada The novel begins with a corpse drowned in the Nile, a woman's body, not the first and will not be the last. Everyone in the village of Hajar Narti begins to wonder: Whose body...

The priest's daughter Author's name: George Orwell The Clerk's Daughter is the third book by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in London in 1935 and again in New York in 1936. Orwell had previously published his autobiographical book, *A Life of Hardship...

Season of Migration to the North Author's name: Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North is the novel that elevated Tayeb Salih to the ranks of international writers. It was selected among the 100 best Arabic novels of the 20th century, and the...

Reader Author's name: Bernhard Schlink Michael, a fifteen-year-old teenager, falls into the trap of an unequal relationship with Hannah, a thirty-year-old woman. Michael repeatedly reads passages from the Odyssey to Hannah after he has finished making love, and she later stipulates that he must...

Murder at the Lake Author Name: John Budd In the quiet English countryside, this strange and mysterious crime takes place, a crime that has baffled the most skilled detectives. This novel was written by the English writer Ernest Elmore, who appears to have been...

What the ashes hide Author's name: Yahya Safwat The protagonist, who suffers from his father's neglect of him and his success in judo, and his confusion after his mother's early death, meets Murad in a tragic event and is forced to accept him as...

red-haired Author's name: Orhan Pamuk The Red-Haired Woman "In his search for the soul of his sad city, Pamuk discovered new symbols of the clash and interdependence of civilizations." Swedish Nobel Academy In his novels, Orhan Pamuk takes us to a small town 30...

Musa When the anger subsided Author's name: Fares Saleh A boy lay face down in a semi-dark, filthy cell, with a high ceiling and a single window with two steel bars, and polished, shiny walls that made the place feel colder than it was....

Emirati in London Author's name: Hind Al-Khalidi  

I signed and no one named me Author's name: Dr. Dalal Al-Naimi The heroine of the novel is a young woman named Hanan who lives with her brother's wife Aisha, her son Hamid, and the maid. Hanan met an architect named Yazan and fell...

Italian folk tales Author's name: Giuseppe Pietri, Domenico Comparetti, Luigi Capuana It presents a selection of Italian folk tales, translated from the Italian by Dr. Najla Wali in a distinctive translation. Although these tales belong to oral literature, which constitutes a melting pot of...

Our spy in Kuwait Author's Name: Louise Pervet Dunn This novel is based on true events. The author was born and lived in Kuwait in the late 1950s and 1960s. Most of the events take place in Kuwait just before its independence and Abdul...

Happened in Soho Author's name: Fadwa Al-Tawil It Happened in Soho is one of the most important detective novels in the Arab world over the past ten years, having sold tens of thousands of copies, and readers still enjoy reading its details whenever they...

The ranks of humans and jinn At Badi' al-Zaman Author's name: Rowan Nasser The novel blends reality and fantasy in a unique style that takes the reader on a journey through time, from bygone eras to the details of our contemporary lives. Rawan Nasser,...

Imagination Maayouf Abdul Hadi Al-Jamil Mayouf felt close to the American hospital. He thought, ever since he got on the lorry, that he had gone too far, but he was only three beats away. This mysterious ringing would take him to the American. Mayouf...

Of Men and Guns Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani A collection of stories by Ghassan Kanafani that discuss the struggle of the Palestinian people. The primary value of this book lies in two aspects: The historical value: We discover in Kanafani the endless will to...

The jinn's revenge on Nayef Author's name: Faisal Aj My story is related to events that happened to us in the past, and I really don't know how to start telling this story because it is so strange? We were just a bunch of...