January 16, 2026
30 NEW SWANA BOOKS TO READ IN 2026
by Samia Saliba
My original list for this piece had over 65 SWANA titles releasing in the first half of 2026. That’s too many, but what a beautiful problem to have! So here are 30 of the most exciting adult titles coming this year, plus a few YA titles for fun.
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December 31, 2025
Favorite SWANA Books of 2025: Reflections on Literary Abundance from Mizna Community + Staff
by Summer Farah and Samia Saliba
This year has been a big year for books by SWANA authors. Big in the sense that we’ve seen an impressive volume of work published in English this year, but also in the sense that those works have received a lot of recognition in literary spaces, from individual readers and by way of major literary awards.
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March 28, 2025
Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
by Summer Farah
Subtlety: something I go back and forth worrying about, an oscillation between “not that deep” or “not worth it” to address, but with the knowledge that it is still cutting, cutting, cutting.
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