Traci Thomas of “The Stacks” podcast has been turning to books to give her more insight into the crisis in Israel and Gaza. She shares a few of her picks with host Scott Tong.
Book recommendations
Nonfiction
- “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall
- “We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir” by Raja Shehadeh
- “People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present” by Dara Thorn”
- “Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics” by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
- “My Promised Land: The Promise and Tragedy of Israel” by Ari Shavit
- “Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi
- “How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less” by Sarah Glidden
- “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America” by Karen Brodkin
- “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine” by Ben Ehrenreich
- “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement” by Angela Davis
- “Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017” by Ian Black
- “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East” by Michael B. Oren
- “The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine” by Michael Scott-Baumann
- “When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History” by Massoud Hayoun
- “The Question of Palestine” by Edward W. Said
- “I Saw Ramallah” by Mourid Barghouti
- “On Palestine” by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
- “Ten Myths About Israel” by Ilan Pappé
- “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” by Daniel Gordis
- “On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice” by Jewish Voice for Peace
- “Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation” edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
- “The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World” by Avi Shlaim
Fiction
- “Minor Detail” by Adania Shibli translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
- “All the Rivers” by Dorit Rabinyan
- “Against the Loveless World” by Susan Abulhawa
- “Mother of Strangers” by Suad Amiry
- “To the End of the Land” by David Grossman
- “Mornings in Jenin” by Susan Abulhawa
- “Salt Houses” by Hala Alyan
- “Wild Thorns” by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Elizabeth Fernea and Trevor Le Gassick
- “Murder on a Kibbutz” by Batya Gur
- “One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset” by Shimon Adaf
- “All Backs Were Turned” by Marek Hlasko, translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz
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