Books by Amal Awad

Books by Amal Awad

Books by Amal Awad

Learn more about Amal’s writing, read book reviews, and purchase hard copies, ebooks, and audiobooks here.

Amal Awad, photographed by Tim Levy — Amal Awad, photographed by Tim Levy.

Amal is the author of eight books, across fiction and non-fiction. Her novels include Courting Samira (2011), This is How You Get Better (2015), The Things We See in the Light (2021), and Bitter & Sweet (2023). Her non-fiction titles—The Incidental Muslim (2014), Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women (2017), Fridays With My Folks – Stories on Ageing, Illness and Life (2019), and In My Past Life I was Cleopatra (2021)—reflect her ongoing interest in personal storytelling, community, and the complexities of everyday life.

Non-fiction books by Amal Awad

Amal Awad's "In My Past Life I was Cleopatra" book cover — First published in 2021. Second edition coming in 2026.

Books by Amal Awad - cover of The Incidental Muslim — First published in 2014.

Amal Awad - Beyond Veiled Cliches cover — First published in 2017. Second edition coming in 2026.

Writer - Amal Awad - Nonfiction - Fridays with my folks — First published in 2019. Second edition coming in 2026.

Novels by Amal Awad

Courting Samira, a novel by Amal Awad — First published in 2011. Second edition published 2021. US edition published 2023.

Things We See in the Light, a novel by Amal Awad — First published in 2021.

Bitter and Sweet - a novel by Amal Awad — First published in 2023.

This is How You Get Better, a novel by Amal Awad — First published in 2015. Second edition published in 2021.

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