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The Lucky Ones
by Zara Chowdhary
Finding My Way
by Malala Yousafzai
Cactus Pear For My Beloved
by Samah Sabawi
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatema Mernissi
They Called Me a Lioness
by Ahed Tamimi
I Witness: Courage: My Story of Persecution
by Freshta Tori Jan
The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding
by Ranya Tabari Idliby
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
by Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
by Fatima Bhutto
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
by Farah Ahmedi
A Temporary Gift: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing
by Asmaa Hussein
Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist
by Huda Shaarawi
Not Without My Daughter
by Betty Mahmoody
Chicken with Plums
by Marjane Satrapi
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey
by Leila Ahmed
First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
by Huda Al-Marashi
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
by Qanta A. Ahmed
My Hair Is Pink Under This Veil
by Rabina Khan
Coming of Age in the War on Terror
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
by Suad Amiry
You're Not a Girl in a Movie
by Hala Alyan
I'll Tell You When I'm Home
by Hala Alyan
Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain
by Nadeine Asbali
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir
by Alia Malek
The Butterfly Mosque
by G. Willow Wilson
Reclaim Your Heart: Personal insights on breaking free from life's shackles
by Yasmin Mogahed
A Muslim Woman's Diary
by Sumaya Amiri
Jihad of the Soul: Singlehood and the Search for Love in Muslim America
by Zarinah Iman El-Amin Naeem
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The Awakening of Malcolm X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Growing Up X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
USA/Americans
X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Betty Before X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
USA/Americans
Nomad Diaries
by Yasmeen Maxamuud
Refugees USA/Americans
NbA Muslims: Black Muslim Reads
by Umm Juwayriyah, Fatimah Abdulmalik, Layla Abdullah-Poulos
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
by Amani al-Khatahtbeh
From My Sisters’ Lips
by Na'ima B. Robert
hijab
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
by Nura Maznavi, Ayesha Mattu
USA/Americans
A Match Made in Heaven
by Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali, Richard Phillips
I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Pakistan/Pakistani
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
Pakistan/Pakistani
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights
by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
Pakistan/Pakistani
We Are Displaced
by Malala Yousafzai
Refugees
Uashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
by Leah Vernon
Modestly
by Dina Torkia
My Past Is a Foreign Country
by Zeba Talkhani
USA/Americans
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
by Linda Sarsour
USA/Americans
Laughing all the Way to the Mosque
by Zarqa Nawaz
Canada/Canadians
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
Iran/Iranian
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni
Iran/Iranian USA/Americans
Love in a Headscarf
by Shelina Zahra Jammohamed
dating marriage
Finding My Voice
by Nadiya Hussain
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by Samra Habib
LGBT+ Pakistan/Pakistani Canada/Canadians
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom
by Rabia Chaudry
From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired my Life
by Kristina Backer
Religious conversion
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
by Parsua Bashi
Iran/Iranian