APRIL BOOK LIST 2022
Celebrate Arab-American Heritage Month, Autism Acceptance Month, National Poetry Month, and Scottish-American Heritage Month by checking out this book list full of great recommendations!
Celebrate Arab-American Heritage Month, Autism Acceptance Month, National Poetry Month, and Scottish-American Heritage Month by checking out this book list full of great recommendations!
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PENN HILLS LIBRARY PRESENTS<br />
April<br />
Book List<br />
Arab-American Heritage Month Book List<br />
Autism Acceptance Month Book List<br />
National Poetry Month Book List<br />
Scottish-American Heritage Month Book<br />
List
A Note for<br />
Readers<br />
Every book has some buzzwords<br />
which are taken from the<br />
website/app The Story Graph,<br />
which is a Black owned business<br />
and an awesome app for logging<br />
the books you read, tracking<br />
reading stats, participating in<br />
reading challenges, and more!<br />
You can download Story Graph<br />
for free at<br />
https://app.thestorygraph.com/
Arab-American<br />
heritage Month<br />
Book List
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
Mirage by Somaiya Daud<br />
fiction fantasy young adult<br />
adventurous tense mediumpaced<br />
The Three Lucys by Hayan<br />
Charara<br />
nonfiction emotional sad<br />
medium-paced<br />
Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana<br />
Khan, illustrated by Sophie<br />
Blackall<br />
fiction lighthearted mediumpaced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
The Green Bicycle by Haifaa Al<br />
Mansour<br />
fiction contemporary middle<br />
grade emotional lighthearted<br />
medium-paced<br />
The Turtle of Oman by<br />
Naomi Shihab Nye<br />
fiction middle grade<br />
adventurous slow-paced<br />
We Hunt the Flame by<br />
Hafsah Faizal<br />
fiction fantasy young adult<br />
adventurous slow-paced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K.<br />
Ali & Aisha Saeed<br />
fiction middle grade short stories<br />
emotional hopeful lighthearted<br />
fast-paced<br />
Silverworld by Diana Abu-Jaber<br />
fiction childrens fantasy<br />
adventurous emotional<br />
mysterious medium-paced<br />
The Arabic Quilt by Aya<br />
Khalil<br />
fiction childrens emotional<br />
medium-paced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
Sitti's Secrets by Naomi<br />
Shihab Nye<br />
fiction emotional reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
The Librarian of Basra: A True<br />
Story from Iraq by Jeanette<br />
Winter<br />
nonfiction biography childrens<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
My Father's Shop by Satomi<br />
Ichikawa<br />
fiction childrens lighthearted<br />
slow-paced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
The Cat Man of Aleppo by<br />
Karim Shamsi-Basha<br />
nonfiction emotional sad<br />
medium-paced<br />
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye<br />
fiction historical young adult<br />
challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Night Counter by Alia Yunis<br />
fiction fantasy historical magical<br />
realism emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
In the Country of Men by<br />
Hisham Matar<br />
fiction historical reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
Crescent by Diana Abu Jaber<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
emotional reflective slowpaced<br />
Lailah s Lunchbox: A Ramadan<br />
Story by Reem Faruqi, illustrated<br />
by Lea Lyon<br />
nonfiction childrens lighthearted<br />
medium-paced
Children's & Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by<br />
Tahera Mafi<br />
fiction young adult challenging<br />
emotional reflective mediumpaced<br />
An Ember in the Ashes by<br />
Sabaa Tahir<br />
fiction fantasy young adult<br />
adventurous dark fast-paced
Fiction<br />
Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-<br />
American Poetry edited by Gregory<br />
Orfalea<br />
nonfiction poetry challenging<br />
informative reflective medium-paced<br />
An Unnecessary Woman by<br />
Rabih Alameddine<br />
fiction literary reflective slowpaced<br />
The Map of Salt and Stars by<br />
Zeyn Joukhadar<br />
fiction fantasy historical<br />
adventurous challenging<br />
emotional slow-paced
Fiction<br />
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn<br />
Joukhadar<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ literary magical<br />
realism challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Beauty of Your Face by<br />
Sahar Mustafah<br />
fiction literary emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Other Americans by Laila<br />
Lalami<br />
fiction contemporary literary<br />
mystery emotional mysterious<br />
reflective slow-paced
Fiction<br />
You Exist Too Much by Zaina<br />
Arafat<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ literary<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
A Woman is No Man by Etaf<br />
Rum<br />
fiction contemporary literary<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
I, the Divine by Rabih<br />
Alameddine<br />
fiction literary challenging<br />
reflective slow-paced
Fiction<br />
Lifted by the Great Nothing by<br />
Karim Dimechkie<br />
fiction emotional reflective<br />
fast-paced<br />
Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-<br />
Jaber<br />
fiction contemporary<br />
challenging reflective slowpaced<br />
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan<br />
fiction historical emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced
Fiction<br />
As Good as True by Cheryl Reid<br />
fiction historical mystery<br />
emotional mysterious reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
Ayesha at Last by Uzma<br />
Jalaluddin<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
funny lighthearted mediumpaced
Non-Fiction<br />
Out of Place by Edward Said<br />
nonfiction autobiography<br />
biography memoir reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf<br />
by Mohja Kahf<br />
fiction historical religion<br />
emotional reflective slow-paced<br />
Hope and Other Dangerous<br />
Pursuits by Laila Lalami<br />
fiction short stories emotional<br />
reflective medium-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
Conditional Citizens by Laila<br />
Lalami<br />
nonfiction memoir politics<br />
challenging informative<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Language of Baklava by<br />
Diana Abu-Jaber<br />
nonfiction biography memoir<br />
lighthearted medium-paced<br />
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from<br />
Iraq by Riverbend<br />
nonfiction history memoir<br />
emotional informative reflective<br />
slow-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish<br />
Family s Forgotten History by<br />
Massoud Hayoun<br />
nonfiction history memoir religion<br />
emotional reflective slow-paced<br />
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?:<br />
Being Young and Arab in America by<br />
Moustafa Bayoumi<br />
nonfiction politics race religion<br />
sociology challenging informative<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
I Was Their American Dream by<br />
Malaka Gharib<br />
nonfiction graphic novel memoir<br />
emotional lighthearted reflective<br />
fast-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
Other Words for Home by<br />
Jasmine Warga<br />
fiction contemporary middle<br />
grade poetry challenging<br />
emotional hopeful medium-paced<br />
Huda F Are You? by Huda<br />
Fahmy<br />
fiction graphic novel young adult<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-pace
Autism<br />
Acceptance<br />
Month Book List
Fiction<br />
Always Only You by Chloe<br />
Liese<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
sports emotional funny hopeful<br />
medium-paced<br />
With You Forever by Chloe<br />
Liese<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
emotional funny lighthearted<br />
medium-paced<br />
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde<br />
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+<br />
young adult emotional funny<br />
lighthearted medium-paced
Fiction<br />
The Kiss Quotient by Helen<br />
Hoang<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
emotional lighthearted mediumpaced<br />
The Bride Test by Helen<br />
Hoang<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
emotional lighthearted mediumpaced<br />
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne<br />
Duyvis<br />
fiction science fiction young<br />
adult emotional sad mediumpaced
Fiction<br />
The State of Grace by Rachael<br />
Lucas<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
young adult emotional mediumpaced<br />
An Unkindness of Ghosts by<br />
Rivers Solomon<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction<br />
challenging dark emotional<br />
medium-paced<br />
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by<br />
Talia Hibbert<br />
fiction contemporary romance<br />
emotional funny lighthearted<br />
fast-paced
Fiction<br />
The Someday Birds by Sally J<br />
Pla<br />
fiction middle grade emotional<br />
slow-paced<br />
Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay<br />
Kerr<br />
fiction contemporary young adult<br />
emotional hopeful reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll<br />
fiction children's contemporary<br />
middle grade challenging<br />
emotional hopeful medium-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
22 Things a Woman with<br />
Asperger’s Syndrome Wants Her<br />
Partner to Know by Rudy Simone<br />
nonfiction psychology self help<br />
informative medium-paced<br />
Aspergirls: Empowering Females<br />
with Asperger’s Syndrome by Rudy<br />
Simone<br />
nonfiction psychology self help<br />
challenging emotional informative<br />
medium-paced<br />
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A<br />
Comedian’s Guide to Life on the<br />
Spectrum by Michael<br />
McCreary<br />
nonfiction memoir funny informative<br />
lighthearted fast-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a<br />
Neurotypical World by Laura E.<br />
James<br />
nonfiction memoir psychology<br />
informative reflective medium-paced<br />
The Secret Life of a Black<br />
Aspie: A Memoir by Anand<br />
Prahlad<br />
nonfiction memoir challenging<br />
emotional reflective slow-paced<br />
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat<br />
of Autism edited by Barbara Cook and<br />
Dr. Michelle<br />
Garnett<br />
nonfiction psychology hopeful<br />
informative inspiring medium-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
Invisible Differences by Julie<br />
Dachez<br />
nonfiction comics funny<br />
informative reflective mediumpaced<br />
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of<br />
Autistic Women by Sarah<br />
Bargiela<br />
nonfiction comics psychology<br />
challenging informative fast-paced<br />
But you don’t look autistic at all by<br />
Bianca Toeps<br />
nonfiction memoir psychology<br />
challenging informative mediumpaced
Non-Fiction<br />
In a Different Key: The Story of<br />
Autism by John Donvan and Caren<br />
Zucker<br />
nonfiction history psychology science<br />
challenging informative slow-paced<br />
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of<br />
Autism and the Future of<br />
Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman<br />
nonfiction history psychology science<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Look Me in the Eye by John Elder<br />
Robison<br />
nonfiction memoir psychology funny<br />
informative reflective mediumpaced
Non-Fiction<br />
Stim: An Autistic Anthology<br />
edited by Lizzie Huxley-Jones<br />
nonfiction essays informative<br />
reflective medium-paced<br />
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with<br />
Autism by Temple Grandin<br />
nonfiction autobiography memoir<br />
psychology science challenging<br />
informative reflective slowpaced<br />
The Reason I Jump by Naoki<br />
Higashida<br />
nonfiction biography memoir<br />
psychology challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced
Non-Fiction<br />
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially<br />
Inappropriate: A User Guide to an<br />
Asperger Life by Cynthia Kim<br />
nonfiction memoir psychology<br />
challenging informative reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender<br />
People in Their Own Words by<br />
Maxfield Sparrow<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging<br />
informative reflective slow-paced<br />
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living<br />
Racialized Autism by Lydia X.Z. Brown,<br />
Morénike<br />
Giwa Onaiwu, and E. Ashkenazy<br />
nonfiction literary challenging informative<br />
reflective medium-paced
National Poetry<br />
Month<br />
Book List
Poetry<br />
The Collected Poems of Emily<br />
Dickinson by Emily Dickinson<br />
fiction classics poetry<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita<br />
Gill<br />
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ magical<br />
realism poetry religion emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez<br />
Smith<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced
Poetry<br />
The Poet X by Elizabeth<br />
Acevedo<br />
fiction contemporary poetry<br />
young adult emotional inspiring<br />
reflective fast-paced<br />
The Black Flamingo by Dean<br />
Atta<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ poetry young<br />
adult emotional hopeful reflective<br />
fast-paced<br />
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and<br />
Yusef Salaam<br />
fiction crime young adult<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced
Poetry<br />
Dance Dance Revolution by<br />
Cathy Park Hong<br />
fiction poetry reflective slowpaced<br />
Real Phonies and Genuine<br />
Fakes by Nicky Beer<br />
challenging reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
Content Warning: Everything by<br />
Akwaeke Emezi<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry<br />
emotional reflective mediumpaced
Poetry<br />
Time is a Mother by Ocean<br />
Vuong<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ literary<br />
poetry emotional reflective sad<br />
medium-paced<br />
Practical Gods by Carl<br />
Dennis<br />
nonfiction philosophy poetry<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Bless the Daughter Raised by a<br />
Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire<br />
nonfiction biography memoir poetry<br />
dark emotional reflective fastpaced
Poetry<br />
Songs of Innocence and<br />
Experience by William Blake<br />
nonfiction art classics poetry<br />
emotional reflective fast-paced<br />
Selected Poems of<br />
Langston Hughes by<br />
Langston Hughes<br />
nonfiction poetry<br />
The Poetry of Maya Angelou by<br />
Maya Angelou<br />
nonfiction poetry emotional<br />
inspiring reflective slow-paced
Poetry<br />
The Collected Poems of Audre<br />
Lorde by Audre Lorde<br />
nonfiction feminism poetry<br />
challenging reflective mediumpaced<br />
Ariel by Sylvia Plath<br />
classics feminism poetry<br />
challenging emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück<br />
nonfiction poetry emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced
Poetry<br />
Neon Vernacular: New and<br />
Selected Poems by Yusef<br />
Komunyakka<br />
nonfiction poetry emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Sleeping with the Dictionary<br />
by Harryette Mullen<br />
poetry challenging informative<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
When My Brother Was an Aztec<br />
by Natalie Diaz<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry<br />
emotional reflective fast-paced
Poetry<br />
Bestiary: Poems by Donika<br />
Kelly<br />
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry<br />
emotional reflective slowpaced<br />
Monument: Poems New and<br />
Selected by Natasha Trethewey<br />
nonfiction poetry race<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
Lighthead by Terrance<br />
Hayes<br />
nonfiction poetry challenging<br />
reflective slow-paced
Poetry<br />
Life on Mars: Poems by Tracey<br />
K. Smith<br />
poetry science fiction<br />
challenging reflective slowpaced<br />
Citizen: An American Lyric by<br />
Claudia Rankine<br />
nonfiction essays poetry race<br />
challenging emotional reflective<br />
fast-paced
Scottish-<br />
American<br />
heritage month
Fiction<br />
Duck Feet by Ely Percy<br />
fiction literary emotional<br />
funny medium-paced<br />
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith<br />
fiction lgbtqia+<br />
adventurous reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee<br />
fiction crime historical mystery<br />
adventurous dark mysterious<br />
medium-paced
Fiction<br />
Murder at the Mela by<br />
Leela Soma<br />
dark mysterious tense fastpaced<br />
All the Hidden Truths by Claire<br />
Askew<br />
fiction crime mystery thriller<br />
dark mysterious reflective<br />
slow-paced<br />
Goblin by Ever Dundas<br />
fiction historical literary magical<br />
realism dark mysterious fastpaced
Fiction<br />
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan<br />
fiction historical horror<br />
literary challenging<br />
informative slow-paced<br />
The Memory of Love by<br />
Aminatta Forna<br />
fiction historical emotional<br />
reflective sad medium-paced<br />
His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar<br />
Allen Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales<br />
Reimagined edited by<br />
Dahlia Adler<br />
fiction horror short stories young adult<br />
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Fiction<br />
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<br />
and Other Tales by Washington<br />
Irving<br />
fiction classics horror dark<br />
medium-paced<br />
The Private Memoirs and<br />
Confessions of a Justified Sinner<br />
by James Hogg<br />
fiction classics horror dark<br />
mysterious slow-paced<br />
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.<br />
Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
fiction classics horror science<br />
fiction dark mysterious mediumpaced
Fiction<br />
Morvern Callar by Alan<br />
Warner<br />
fiction contemporary dark<br />
slow-paced<br />
The Bridge by Iain Banks<br />
fiction contemporary fantasy<br />
science fiction adventurous<br />
challenging dark slow-paced<br />
Docherty by William<br />
McIlvanely<br />
fiction literary emotional<br />
reflective sad medium-paced
Fiction<br />
Life After Life by Kate<br />
Atkinson<br />
fiction fantasy historical<br />
science fiction emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
The Cutting Room by Louise<br />
Welsh<br />
fiction crime mystery dark<br />
mysterious tense medium-paced<br />
The Hand That First Held Mine by<br />
Maggie O’Farrell<br />
fiction contemporary historical<br />
emotional reflective mediumpaced
Fiction<br />
Trumpet by Jackie Kay<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ emotional<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of<br />
Scottish Folktales by Rachel<br />
Plummer<br />
fiction lgbtqia+ poetry adventurous<br />
emotional fast-paced<br />
The Inheritance of Solomon<br />
Farthing by Mary Paulson-Ellis<br />
fiction historical mystery<br />
emotional mysterious slowpaced
Fiction<br />
Lote by Shola von Reinhold<br />
fiction art contemporary<br />
lgbtqia+ challenging<br />
reflective medium-paced
non-Fiction<br />
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay<br />
nonfiction biography music<br />
emotional reflective<br />
medium-paced<br />
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a<br />
Scottish Adventure Like No Other<br />
by Sam Heughan<br />
nonfiction history travel adventurous<br />
emotional funny slow-paced<br />
Native: Life in a Vanishing<br />
Landscape by Patrick Laurie<br />
nonfiction nature adventurous<br />
informative reflective slow-paced
non-Fiction<br />
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the<br />
Posthuman Landscape by Cal Flyn<br />
nonfiction essays nature<br />
adventurous challenging<br />
informative medium-paced<br />
At the Loch of the Green Corrie<br />
by Andrew Greig<br />
nonfiction nature travel<br />
reflective slow-paced<br />
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia<br />
Fraser<br />
nonfiction biography historical<br />
history challenging informative<br />
slow-paced
non-Fiction<br />
Tales and Traditions of Scottish<br />
Castles by Nigel Tranter<br />
nonfiction historical<br />
adventurous informative slowpaced<br />
A History of Scotland by Neil<br />
Oliver<br />
nonfiction history informative<br />
medium-paced<br />
Sea Room: An Island Life in the<br />
Hebrides by Adam Nicolson<br />
nonfiction memoir travel<br />
reflective slow-paced
non-Fiction<br />
Scotland: The Autobiography 2,000<br />
Years of Scottish History by Those Who<br />
Saw it Happen by<br />
Rosemary Goring<br />
nonfiction biography history adventurous<br />
reflective relaxing medium-paced
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