The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (Syrian)
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (Egyptian-Palestinian)
Guapa by Saleem Haddad (Unnamed)
God in Pink by Hassan Namir (Iraqi)
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Palestinian)
Bonus: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy is set in a fictional universe, but the refugee MC’s background is based on McCarthy’s Lebanese background
If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
Darius the Great is Not Okay and Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
Bonus: Coming in May, Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust is a bi fantasy based on Persian mythology
Extremely cute cover reveal alert! Today on the site we’ve got the cover for Soft on Soft, a contemporary f/f Romance by Em Ali that’s ownvoices representation for demisexuality, fat mc and li, anxiety and middle-eastern rep. The best part? It releases in five days, so you can preorder now and devour it within the week! Here are the details:
June Bana might post nearly daily makeup looks that gain thousands of likes but Real Life June has built a wall behind which she exists with her two cats.
But with messy feelings getting in a way of an early hermit life, June begins to realize that she wants more. She wants model/actress, Sunshine Reincarnated Selena Clarke. It doesn’t hurt that Selena is amazing with cats and quiets down June’s anxiety to bearable levels.
June is given the choice of facing her anxieties about relationships to gain not only a girlfriend but also a better understanding of how far she’d go for love.
But would she take it? Would she leave her comfort zone for something softer?
Contemporary fluffy piece where one homebody and one extrovert make one hell of a love story.
Aaaand here’s the adorable cover, designed by Shafiq Shaar!
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Em is a part-time whiner part time cat parent. They spend a lot of time reading romance books and crying to Twitter about how good they are. They live in a pretty chill place called Their Brain, but they allow for visitors.
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (Portuguese)
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (Japanese)
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (Estonian)
One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva (Armenian)
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan (Persian)