#reading asks

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📚Bookish Asks📚

📕 What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why?

📖Do you prefer physical books or e-books? Why?

💛How do you organize your bookshelves? By genre, author, color, or in a completely unique way?

🔖What quote from a book resonated with you deeply?

🤎Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you read multiple books simultaneously?

📝What fictional world would you love to visit and explore if given the chance?

💚Which book character do you relate to the most, and why?

📙What’s your favorite genre to read, and do you have any recommendations within that genre?

📑Hardcover, paperback, ebook, or audiobook? Which format do you prefer?

🤍Do you have any reading goals for this year? How are you progressing so far?

💙 What is your favorite book-to-movie adaptation, and why?

📚Do you have a go-to reading spot or do you read everywhere?

❤️Who is your all-time favorite author, and what makes their writing so special to you?

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more?

💜What book did you initially not enjoy but ended up loving? What changed your perspective?

📗If you could have a conversation with any author, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you ask them?

🖤 Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they?

📔Do you have any bookish rituals or habits that you follow before, during, or after reading a book?

🧡Is there a particular book cover that you find absolutely stunning? Share a picture or describe it!

📘Which classic book or author do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime, and why?

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[sassysnowperson]

Political intrigue baybeeee

Oh of course!

I think the most broad-scale political intrigue is R. F Kuang's 'Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution' - and I feel safe reccing it to you but for my folks that hate an ending with a heavy dose of tragedy, maybe stay clear. But, for my Rogue One is the Best Star Wars Movie folks - I think there's a plot to enjoy here.

Colonialism examined through the eyes of translation, except translation has magic. Fluently bilingual speakers are now a product to export along with everything else Britain wants from India and China and all the other places its tendrils reach to. The power of that magic keeps the society running. It starts out as a complex coming of age novel for one young man trained to be this sort of translator, and as he becomes more aware of the world, the reader becomes more aware of the politics. Revolution is impossible, doomed, and the only just thing. Colonialism and exploitation is a monster eating itself, omnipresent and at the same time, unsustainable. I found it hopeful, in amongst the tragedy. You don't get a happy ending, but there's a lot to chew on, and I left the book the better for reading it.

Send me an ask with a favorite book/genre/plot of yours, and I'll tell you what I'd rec from my year in reading in response!

#reading asks #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #sass talks books

[penna-nomen]

For the book ask!

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Oh those are fun questions. There's overlap between them, so for the rereads I'll just mention things that I didn't read for the first time this year:

Rereads:

Defekt by Nino Cipri

Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells - in preparation for the release of System Collapse

Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - in preparation for the movie release

Top 5:

System Collapse by Martha Wells

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

God of Lost Words by AJ Hackwith

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

12 Points of Caleb Canto by Copperbadge

Thanks for the ask!

#reading asks #book recs

[winterrose527]

1-4, 12-14, 16 for the book ask game!!

ooh thanks for the ask!

How many books did you read this year?

I stopped keeping track after I met my goal of 52, but somewhere around 60-65 probably?

2. Did you reread anything? What?

I'm currently rereading King of Cups by @phoebe-woods.

3.What were your top five books of the year?

Persuasion - Jane Austen

King of Cups - @phoebe-woods

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

Sex and Rage - Eve Babitz

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Eve Babitz Eve Babitz Eve Babitz. Every ranty irreverent female narrator low plot high vibe book these days is trying and nearly always failing to be her.

12. Any books that disappointed you?

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, but in fairness, I've just read too much greek mythology retelling for it to feel as groundbreaking as it likely was when it was published.

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

Probably Darling Girls, Lessons in Chemistry, and Weyward.

14. What books do you want to finish before the end of the year?

I HAVE to finish Emma. Which means I should probably start Emma.

16. What is the most over-hyped book you have read this year?

Fucking Weyward. There are not enough words for how much I hated this book. It temporarily fueled me to write my own cozy witchcraft book which I've since abandoned I hated it so much.

#ask #reading asks

[authorlaurawinter]

6. Are you the type of person who will read a book to the end whether you like it or not, or will you put it down straight away if you’re not feeling into it?

So, I used to stick to books even if I didn’t like them. But now I realize life is to short to slug through something I don’t enjoy.

nowadays I will DNF for many reasons

I’m dreading reading or picking it up and I’m finding excuses not to read that book

It is poorly written or there are glaring issues that take me out of the story

I thought the story was a fit but it wasn’t vibing or didn’t deliver

I’m utterly bored and skipping or so lost that I’m drowning

I know for a fact I’m going to be leaving 1 or 2 star review on a book that has less than 50 reviews on a platform and I don’t want to tank their rating

I know I’m going to be leaving a not good review for a very individual reason (trope, personal TW, etc)

Or I DNF and still leave a 1-2 star review with details as to why I was unable to finish the book (mostly for books that are popular or where my rating and review will be lost in the masses)

I will also not pick up a book unless

I am 80-90% sure the blurb and plot is something I’ll enjoy

I’ve read the author before

A friend asked me to read it so they can talk about it

I want to try a new kink / genre (I read smut, you never know)

Because of this, it’s rare that I DNF because I have a strong criteria a book must hit for me to pick it up. Yes, it makes me picky, but I know what I like and I’m not afraid to stick to those comforts. I don’t need to read for anything but my enjoyment at this point in my life so I’m gonna treat myself. If I’m DNFing it means your book was not for me and that’s okay. I’m just not the reader you wanna target.

#booklr #thank you for the ask #reading asks

[quasar-concept]

5 and 14 :D

Thanks for the ask Bri!!

5. What genre(s) do you typically reach for?

I don't typically read any single genre, but science-fiction, and fantasy are my favourites! It also fully depends on what books I've recently read and enjoyed haha.

14. Share some of your reading goals for the year (or explain why you don’t set goals!)

So... My reading in the last few years has been TERRIBLE for me.

This year I set the goal of 10 books, which I have definitely surpassed 🎉🎉

I also set the additional goal of 5,000 pages which I've also passed!

These are such small goals compared to what I used to (and want to) read but they're what's realistic for me at this point!

Outside of quantitative goals, I've also set a challenge to get through the entirety of my physical TBR, in particular The Raven Cycle, which I finally have all 4 of!

#asks #reading asks #onereyofstarlight

[sourlemons262]

📝📙 :)

Ahhh thank you @tess-is-reading! You’re such an amazing person and an inspiration as a fellow woman in STEM ❤️

📝: What fictional world would you love to visit and explore if given the chance?

The Grishaverse is super cool, so I’d definitely love to live in there and test out my Grisha powers/see the world. And I love the cast of TID and TLH so Victorian/Edwardian Shadowhunters England would be cool to look into (even tho I’d die in like 5 min from a demon attack 💀)

📙: What’s your favorite genre to read, and do you have any recommendations within that genre?

For the past months or so, I’ve been in a big Romance phase and I’m currently reading Dating Dr. Dil. It’s been so surreal as an Indian woman to read spicy scenes where the girl is someone who looks like me, wears glasses, nerdy af, etc. I’m used to not being the main character, the nerdy sidekick, and it’s so refreshing to see that. If you’re looking for some more diversity (plus the smut is pretty good lol), I recommend it!

#reading asks #thank you for asking tess!!! #random

[random-jot]

Book asks!

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more? 📗If you could have a conversation with any author, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you ask them? 📘Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they? 

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more?

I think I've gotta say this is Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. The feeling I was left with upon ending that book is hard to put into words. Judging by my huge collection of all the rest of Joe Abercrombie's books I think it's safe to say it left me both satisfied and wanting more haha

📗If you could have a conversation with any author, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you ask them?

I mean it feels almost cliché to say, but I have to go with J.R.R. Tolkien. The idea of just sitting down with the guy over a cup of tea and discussing the world building and characters of Middle Earth, that'd be the dream

📘Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they? 

Bruh, of course there are, there's SO MANY 😂 I mean, can you really call yourself a reader if you don't have mass stacks of unread, not even started books in columns around your room?

Okay but series that are highest up on the list are John Gwynne's Bloodsworn, all the ROTE stuff past Liveship Traders, and Malazan Book of the Fallen

Also got several series where I've read the first book and not got round to the rest of them, including Liveship Traders, Mistborn, and The Faithful and the Fallen (John Gywnne again)

So yeah, safe to say I've got a fair bit to get through. Better get on with reading it all! 😂

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[dykenav]

9, 11 and 17!!!

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Not really? I’m just now realizing I did mostly re-reads this year soo….. I didn’t really venture out…. I read pretty exclusively YA/new adult fantasy and adult literary fiction with like one gay romcom which is my norm. I guess the one thing kind of out of character for me was this high school murder mystery called One of Us is Lying…. It was just ok

…ACTUALLY scratch that I read 2 celebrity memoirs this year which is new for me! Jeanette McCurdy and Naya Rivera. Both were good but Jeanette’s was better

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Hard bc all of the books I read this year were pretty recent lol. Literally I think the “oldest” book I read for the first time this year that I actually liked a lot was Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare, and that came out in 2017 lmao so.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman! Excellent and one of my new favs, was only surprised bc I had never heard anyone talk about it ever and it feels like a book people would talk about. OH and Jeannette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died

#thank you!! #much like my spotify wrapped proved my tastes are extremely repetitive and uncultured lmao #answers #reading asks

[humblefun]

1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 14

How many books did you read this year?

35 novel length books and 35 picture books.

2. Did you reread anything? What?

A picture book called Rescue and Jessica by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes and also a couple of Boxcar Children Mysteries. I usually reread the original 5 books in the PJO series every year so I might try to do that before the month is out.

3. What were your top five books of the year?

The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho - It's a beautiful book about a young girl grieving her brother (tw for suicide) and her response to the racism her family faces. The writing is so good and the relationships really well thought out (well except for one of them, but it's a YA book). This is the first book in a long time to make me sob while reading it. 10/10 best book of the year.

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - This book is fun. So, so fun. You wanna have a good time with some Kaiju and sci-fi shenanagins, pick this up. Had I not picked up Silence That Binds Us a few months ago Kaiju would have been my number 1. I want 50 more of these. The writing is very clever.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Translator: Michael R. Katz) - I thought Raskolnikov's downward spiral was so well represented on the page, the way his paranoia and guilt just ate and ate at him. It was so, so good. I loved his friend Razumikhin and his sister Dunya. I thought the characters were all very intriguing. It took me a long time to read this cause the text was dense, but I really enjoyed it.

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (Translator: Ho-Ling Wong) - This was a mystery done right. Very reminiscent of And Then There Were None, and compared to Lucy Foley's The Guest List which had been advertised as a modern day And Then There Were None (it wasn't, it sucked), Decagon does a phenomenally better job. I honestly didn't see the culprit being who it was, and maybe I should have, but it was enjoyable all the same.

Jenny Mei Is Sad by Tracy Subisak - This is a beautiful picture book that really captures the complexities of sadness and packages it in a way that's digestable to children. I have a really strong adoration for children's literature that takes big things and, without losing the nuances of said big things, and presents them well. This was definitely one of those.

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

I actually didn't set any reading goals for this year, because I wasn't sure how much reading I'd be able to get done, but I'm really happy with the reading I did do because I read some really great books this year.

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Sci-fi! Just two entries - Kaiju and The Lost World but I loved both of them! Technically it's a continuation of me getting into sci-fi from last year when I read Jurassic Park and 11/22/63 so I'm thinking I might keep trying things out in the genre. Most of these titles have, a some point or another, a group of strangers working together and learning to care for each other in the process and also aren't in completely different universes. They're still on earth or they still can come back to earth. Also, none of them are set super far into the future. So I guess I might enjoy something like The Martian by Andy Weir as opposed to a true sci-fi novel set in another world.

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

PJO #1-5, Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Little Women

#ask games #reading asks #this was really fun #thank you for asking!

[sunscreenstudies]

📕🧾📔🔖! 🖤

📕 What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why?

This is such a horrible question thanks I hate it 😂 Since it is the "biggest impact" rather than "favourite" though - probably Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak!

🧾What is the most memorable book ending you’ve ever read? Did it leave you satisfied or wanting more?

Oof, there are SO many book endings that had me screaming at walls - for both good and bad reasons! I think the best book endings are the ones that are bittersweet and make me cry my heart out since it's ~ cathartic ~ or whatever, so probably Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, or The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton because all of those books really emphasized the realities of life and this might sound weird but I usually prefer harsher, sad, heart-wrenching endings over "and they lived happily ever after" because you never find out about that "after" and it bothers me 😅

📔Do you have any bookish rituals or habits that you follow before, during, or after reading a book?

I do but it's going to make me sound crazy - the first time I start any physical book, I add up the total amount of pages, divide it exactly in half, and then break the spine at that page number so that the only line along the spine of the book is exactly in the middle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also gather everything I might need if I'm planning to annotate, as well as my bottle of water, a hat, etc. if I'm reading outside! After I finish a book, I update my Goodreads, Reading List app, and my physical reading journal with my star rating!

🔖What quote from a book resonated with you deeply?

Another super tough question because there are so many lines that I have cried and laughed at, so I'll stick with the top three sucker punch lines from my most recent read - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman:

"We had found the stars you and I. And this is given once only."

"Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are."

"And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts."

🖤 Are there any book series that you’ve been meaning to start but haven’t gotten around to yet? Which ones are they?

I can't think of any new book series that I want to start asides from The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes but there are a TON of old series that I either never finished or want to reread like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Alex Rider, The Witcher, etc.

>>>📚Bookish Asks📚

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[sassysnowperson]

oooh, I love book recs! Maybe worldbuilding, or friends to lovers? Also/alternatively a book I read this year that I loved was Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshanathan and it is very definitely a tragedy but beautifully written, and maybe my favorite thing I read this year. And I just finished The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, which I think you would enjoy - very much a story about a community and the ways people rely on each other, which is a theme I think we both enjoy!

It IS a theme we both enjoy! Also, I don't know if you remember, but when we were in the bookstore and a stranger came up to me and started gushing about a book, just brimming with the need to tell people about it - that book was Heaven and Earth Grocery Store! I did read it, and enjoyed it very much. James McBride has such a rhythm, lyrical way of writing. I also read Deacon King Kong by him this year - another solid read.

For worldbuilding - I think I have to go with Nghi Vo's The Singing Hills Cycle - it's a series of novellas, they are meant to be read in any order, and I think it's true, but the first one is The Empress of Salt and Fortune. Told from the POV of a cleric moving through the world collecting histories and stories - I think Vo has a gift for unravelling the world as she goes, with a lot of loveable characters too.

Friends to lovers was trickier - didn't read too much this year, but I think I'm going to rec a different novella - The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older. This is mostly a Sherlock-inspired mystery set on Jupiter, but there's a sweet F/F romance between the Sherlock and the Watson in amongst all the mystery-solving. I remember enjoying their friendship and mutual respect as I was reading.

Oh! I've got a wildcard pick for worldbuilding - but this one is for authors that want to worldbuild. An Immense World by Ed Yong is a nonfiction trip through the beautiful and bizarre ways all the creatures of the world experience it through their different senses. I had so many writing aliens/fantastic species thoughts while listening - there's so much room to really make someone different by altering how they perceive the world.

#an Immense world #the mimicking of known successes #singing hills cycle #reading asks #sass talks books

[kittykatt-kait]

enemies to lovers or friends to lovers?

This is a fucking hard one.

Enemies to lovers had passionate sex and that push and pull which is so fucking hot. But friends to lovers is sweet and affectionate. It is gentle but so right.

If I have to choose enemies to lovers would probably win by a tiny margin.

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[hussyknee]

17/12/23 this masterlist has been completely, vetted, revamped and reformatted with free access to all reading and viewing material. It will be updated and edited periodically so please click on my username and reblog the current version directly from me if you're able.

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

(Yes, it's a lot. Just choose your preferred medium and then pick one.)

Podcasts

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Teach-Out Resources

Reading Material (free)

Films and Documentaries (free)

Non-Governmental Organizations

Social Media

How You Can Help

Podcasts

Cocktails & Capitalism: The Story of Palestine Part 1, Part 3

It Could Happen Here: The Cheapest Land is Bought with Blood, Part 2, The Balfour Declaration

Citations Needed: Media narratives and consent manufacturing around Israel-Palestine and the Gaza Siege

The Deprogram: Free Palestine, ft. decolonizatepalestine.com.

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

The Palestine Academy: Palestine 101

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Explainers and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

Visualizing Palestine

Teach-Out Resources

1) Cambridge UCU and Pal Society

Palestine 101

Intro to Palestine Film + Art + Literature

Resources for Organising and Facilitating)

2) The Jadaliya YouTube Channel of the Arab Studies Institute

Gaza in Context Teach-in series

War on Palestine podcast

Updates and Discussions of news with co-editors Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani.

3) The Palestine Directory

History (virtual tours, digital archives, The Palestine Oral History Project, Documenting Palestine, Queering Palestine)

Cultural History (Palestine Open Maps, Overdue Books Zine, Palestine Poster Project)

Contemporary Voices in the Arts

Get Involved: NGOs and campaigns to help and support.

3) PalQuest Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.

4) The Palestine Remix by Al Jazeera

Books and Articles

Free reading material

My Gdrive of Palestine/Decolonization Literature (nearly all the books recommended below + books from other recommended lists)

Five free eBooks by Verso

Three Free eBooks on Palestine by Haymarket

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

Recommended Reading List

Academic Books

Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

Ilan Pappé (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

Ilan Pappé (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

Ilan Pappé (2017) The Biggest Prison On Earth: A History Of The Occupied Territories, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917–2017

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge

Memoirs

Edward Said (1986) After the Last Sky: Palestine Lives, Columbia University PEdward Saidress

Edward Said (2000) Out of Place; A Memoir, First Vintage Books

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Hatim Kanaaneh (2008) A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel, Pluto Press

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: Into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Vittorio Arrigoni (2010) Gaza Stay Human, Kube Publishing

Ramzy Baroud (2010) My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, Pluto Press

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Atef Abu Saif (2015) The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary, Beacon Press

Anthologies

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1992) Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Columbia University Press

ASHTAR Theatre (2010) The Gaza Monologues

Refaat Alreer (ed) (2014) Gaza Writes Back, Just World Books

Refaat Alreer, Laila El-Haddad (eds) (2015) Gaza Unsilenced, Just World Books

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing (eds) (2022) Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Haymarket Books

Short Story Collections

Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (trans) (1968) Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Ghassan Kanafani, Barbara Harlow, Karen E. Riley (trans) (2000) Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Atef Abu Saif (2014) The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press

Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman (trans) (2022) Out Of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam

Sonia Sulaiman (2023) Muneera and the Moon; Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

Essay Collections

Edward W. Said (2000) Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Harvard University Press

Salim Tamari (2008) Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, University of California Press

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Ramzy Baroud (2019) These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, Clarity Press

Novels

Sahar Khalifeh (1976) Wild Thorns, Saqi Books

Liyana Badr (1993) A Balcony over the Fakihani, Interlink Books

Hala Alyan (2017) Salt Houses, Harper Books

Susan Abulhawa (2011) Mornings in Jenin, Bloomsbury

Susan Abulhawa (2020) Against the Loveless World, Bloomsbury

Graphic novels

Joe Sacco (2001) Palestine

Joe Sacco (2010) Footnotes in Gaza

Naji al-Ali (2009) A Child in Palestine, Verso Books

Mohammad Sabaaneh (2021) Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Street Noise Book*

Poetry

Fady Joudah (2008) The Earth in the Attic, Sheridan Books,

Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah (trans) (2012) Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems, Yale University Press

Hala Alyan (2013) Atrium: Poems, Three Rooms Press*

Mohammed El-Kurd (2021) Rifqa, Haymarket Books

Mosab Abu Toha (2022) Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, City Lights Publishers

Tawfiq Zayyad (2023) We Are Here to Stay, Smokestack Books*

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Poems

Rafeef Ziadah (2011) We Teach Life, Sir

Nasser Rabah (2022) In the Endless War

Refaat Alareer (2011) If I Must Die

Hiba Abu Nada (2023) I Grant You Refuge/ Not Just Passing

[All books except the ones starred are available in my gdrive. I'm adding more each day. But please try and buy whatever you're able or borrow from the library. Most should be available in the discounted Free Palestine Reading List by Pluto Press, Verso and Haymarket Books.]

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Documentaries

Jenin, Jenin (2003) dir. Mohammed Bakri

Massacre (2005) dir. Monica Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen

Slingshot HipHop (2008) dir. Jackie Reem Salloum

Waltz with Bashir (2008) dir. Ari Folman † (also on Amazon Prime)

Tears of Gaza (2010) dir. Vibeke Løkkeberg (also on Amazon Prime)

5 Broken Cameras (2011) dir. Emad Burnat (also on Amazon Prime)

The Gatekeepers (2012) dir. Dror Moreh (also on Amazon Prime)

The Great Book Robbery (2012) | Al Jazeera English

Al Nakba (2013) | Al Jazeera (5-episode docu-series)

The Village Under the Forest (2013) dir. Mark J. Kaplan

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013) dir. Fida Qishta

Naila and the Uprising (2017) (also on Amazon Prime)

GAZA (2019) dir. Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) dir. Abby Martin

Little Palestine: Diary Of A Siege (2021) dir. Abdallah Al Khatib 

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story (2021) | Al Jazeera World Documentary

Gaza Fights Back (2021) | MintPress News Original Documentary | dir. Dan Cohen

Innocence (2022) dir. Guy Davidi

Short Films

Fatenah (2009) dir. Ahmad Habash

Gaza-London (2009) dir. Dina Hamdan

Condom Lead (2013) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

OBAIDA (2019) | Defence for Children Palestine

Theatrical Films

Divine Intervention (2002) | dir. Elia Suleiman (also on Netflix)

Paradise Now (2005) dir Hany Abu-Assad (also on Amazon Prime)

Lemon Tree (2008) (choose auto translate for English subs) (also on Amazon Prime)

It Must Be Heaven (2009) | dir. Elia Suleiman †

The Promise (2010) mini-series dir. Peter Kosminsky (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Habibi (2011)* dir. Susan Youssef

Omar (2013)* dir. Hany Abu-Assad †

3000 Nights (2015)* dir. Mai Masri

Foxtrot (2017) dir. Samuel Maoz (also on Amazon Prime)

The Time that Remains (2019) dir. Elia Suleiman †

Gaza Mon Amour (2020) dir. Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser †

The Viewing Booth (2020) dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (on Amazon Prime and Apple TV)

Farha (2021)* | dir. Darin J. Sallam

Palestine Film Institute Archive

All links are for free viewing. The ones marked with a star (*) can be found on Netflix, while the ones marked † can be downloaded for free from my Mega account.

If you find Guy Davidi's Innocence anywhere please let me know, I can't find it for streaming or download even to rent or buy.

In 2018, BDS urged Netflix to dump Fauda, a series created by former members of IOF death squads that legitimizes and promotes racist violence and war crimes, to no avail. Please warn others to not give this series any views. BDS has not called for a boycott of Netflix. ]

NGOs

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

Palestine Defence for Children International

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Institute for Palestine Studies

Al Haq

Artists for Palestine

The Palestine Museum

Jewish Currents

B’Tselem

DAWN

Social Media

Palestnians on Tumblr

@el-shab-hussein

@killyfromblame

@apollos-olives

@fairuzfan

@palipunk

@sar-soor

@nabulsi

@ibtisams

@wearenotjustnumbers2

@90-ghost (is in Gaza right now. Please donate to his GFM and boost it.)

@tamarrud

Allies and advocates (not Palestinian)

@bloglikeanegyptian beautiful posts that read like op-eds

@vyorei daily news roundups

@luthienne resistance through prose

@decolonize-the-left scoop on the US political plans and impacts

@feluka

(Please don't expect any of these blogs to be completely devoted to Palestine allyship; they do post regularly about it but they're still personal blogs and post whatever else they feel like. Do not harrass them.)

Gaza journalists

Motaz Azaiza IG: @motaz_azaiza | Twitter: @azaizamotaz9 | TikTok: _motaz.azaiza (left Gaza as of Jan 23)

Bisan Owda IG and TikTok: wizard_bisan1 | Twitter: @wizardbisan

Saleh Aljafarawi IG: @saleh_aljafarawi | Twitter: @S_Aljafarawi | TikTok: @saleh_aljafarawi97

Plestia Alaqad IG: @byplestia | TikTok: @plestiaaqad (left Gaza)

Wael Al-Dahdouh IG: @wael_eldahdouh | Twitter: @WaelDahdouh (left Gaza as of Jan 13)

Hind Khoudary IG: @hindkhoudary | Twitter: @Hind_Gaza

Ismail Jood IG and TikTok: @ismail.jood (announced end of coverage on Jan 25)

Yara Eid IG: @eid_yara | Twitter: @yaraeid_

Eye on Palestine IG: @eye.on.palestine | Twitter: @EyeonPalestine | TikTok: @eyes.on.palestine

Muhammad Shehada Twitter: @muhammadshehad2

(Edit: even though some journos have evacuated, the footage up to the end of their reporting is up on their social media, and they're also doing urgent fundraisers to get their families and friends to safety. Please donate or share their posts.)

News organisations

The Electronic Intifada Twitter: @intifada | IG: @electronicintifada

Quds News Network Twitter and Telegram: @QudsNen | IG: @qudsn (Arabic)

Times of Gaza IG: @timesofgaza | Twitter: @Timesofgaza | Telegram: @TIMESOFGAZA

The Palestine Chronicle Twitter: @PalestineChron | IG: @palestinechron | @palestinechronicle

Al-Jazeera Twitter: @AJEnglish | IG and TikTok: @aljazeeraenglish, @ajplus

Middle East Eye IG and TikTok: @middleeasteye | Twitter: @MiddleEastEye

Democracy Now Twitter and IG: @democracynow TikTok: @democracynow.org

Mondoweiss IG and TikTok: @mondoweiss | Twitter: @Mondoweiss

The Intercept Twitter and IG: @theintercept

MintPress Twitter: @MintPressNews | IG: mintpress

Novara Media Twitter and IG: @novaramedia

Truthout Twitter and IG: @truthout

Palestnians on Other Social Media

Mouin Rabbani: Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. Twitter: @MouinRabbani

Noura Erakat: Legal scholar, human rights attorney, specialising in Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Twitter: @4noura | IG: @nouraerakat | (http://www.nouraerakat.com/)

Hebh Jamal: Journalist in Germany. IG and Twitter: @hebh_jamal

Ghada Sasa: PhD candidate in International Relations, green colonialism, and Islam in Canada. Twitter: @sasa_ghada | IG: @ghadasasa48

Taleed El Sabawi: Assistant professor of law and researcher in public health. Twitter: @el_sabawi | IG

Lexi Alexander: Filmmaker and activist. Twitter: @LexiAlex | IG: @lexialexander1

Mariam Barghouti: Writer, blogger, researcher, and journalist. Twitter: @MariamBarghouti | IG: @mariambarghouti

Rasha Abdulhadi: Queer poet, author and cultural organizer. Twitter: @rashaabdulhadi

Mohammed el-Kurd: Writer and activist from Jerusalem. IG: @mohammedelkurd | Twitter: @m7mdkurd

Ramy Abdu: Founder and Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Twitter: @RamyAbdu

Subhi: Founder of The Palestine Academy website. IG: @sbeih.jpg |TikTok @iamsbeih | Twitter: @iamsbeih

Allies

Lowkey (Kareem Dennis): Rapper, activist, video and podcast host for MintPress. Twitter: @LowkeyOnline IG: @lowkeyonline

Francesca Albanese: UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories. Twitter: @FranceskAlbs

Sana Saeed: Journalist and media critic, host and senior producer at Al-Jazeera Plus. IG: @sanaface | Twitter: @SanaSaeed

Shailja Patel: Poet, playwright, activist, founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice. Twitter: @shailjapatel

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores: Researcher in curriculum studies, decolonial theory, social movements. Twitter: @Jairo_I_Funez

Jack Dodson: Journalist and Filmmaker. Twitter: @JackDodson IG: @jdodson4

Imani Barbarin: Writer, public speaker, and disability rights activist. IG: @crutches_and_spice | Twitter: @Imani_Barbarin | TikTok: @crutches_and_spice

Jewish Allies

Katie Halper: US comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. IG and Twitter: @kthalps

Amanda Gelender: Writer. Twitter: @agelender | (https://agelender.medium.com/)

Yoav Litvin: Jerusalem-born Writer and Photographer. IG and Twitter: @nookyelur | (yoavlitvin.com)

Alana Lentin: Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. Twitter: @alanalentin

Gideon Levy: anti-Zionist Israeli journalist and activist. Twitter: @gideonle

How You Can Help Palestine

How to be an Ally 101

📢: Global Strike Guide

If any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.

"Knowledge is Israel's worst enemy. Awareness is Israel's most hated and feared foe. That's why Israel bombs a university: it wants to kill openness and determination to refuse living under injustice and racism."

— Dr. Refaat Alareer, (martyred Dec 6, 2023)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Edit 1: took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.

Edit 2: All recommended readings + Haymarket recommendations + essential decolonization texts have been uploaded to my linked gdrive. I will adding more periodically. Please do buy or check them out from the library if possible, but this post was made for and by poor and gatekept Global South bitches like me.

Some have complained about the memes being disrespectful. You're actually legally obligated to make fun of Israeli propaganda and Zionists. I don't make the rules.

Edit 3: "The river to the sea" does not mean the expulsion of Jews from Palestine. Believing that is genocide apologia.

Edit 4: Gazans have specifically asked us to put every effort into pushing for a ceasefire instead of donations. "Raising humanitarian aid" is a grift Western governments are pushing right now to deflect from the fact that they're sending billions to Israel to keep carpet bombing Gazans. As long as the blockades are still in place there will never be enough aid for two million people. (UPDATE: PLEASE DONATE to the Gazan's GoFundMe fundraisers to help them buy food and get out of Rafah into Egypt. E-SIMs, food and medical supplies are also essential. Please donate to the orgs linked in the How You Can Help. Go on the strikes. DO NOT STOP PROTESTING.)

Edit 5: Google drive link for academic books folder has been fixed. Also have added a ton of resources to all the other folders so please check them out.

Edit 6: Added interactive maps, Jadaliya channel, and masterlists of donation links and protest support and of factsheets.

The twitter accounts I reposted as it was given to me and I just now realized it had too many Israeli voices and almost none of the Palestinians I'm following, so it's being edited. (Update: done!) also removed sources like Jewish Voices of Peace and Breaking the Silence that do good work but have come under fair criticism from Palestinians.

Edit 7: Complete reformatting

Edit 8: Complete revamping of the social media section. It now reflects my own following list.

Edit 9: removed some more problematic people from the allies list. Remember that the 2SS is a grift that's used to normalize violence and occupation, kids. Supporting the one-state solution is lowest possible bar for allyship. It's "Free Palestine" not "Free half of Palestine and hope Israel doesn't go right back to killing them".

Edit 10: added The Palestine Directory + Al Jazeera documentary + Addameer. This "100 links per post" thing sucks.

Edit 11: more documentaries and films

Edit 12: reformatted reading list

Edit 13: had to remove @palipunk's masterlist to add another podcast. It's their pinned post and has more resources Palestinian culture and crafts if you want to check it out

Edit 14 6th May '24: I've stopped updating this masterlist so some things, like journalists still left in Gaza and how to support the student protests are missing. I've had to take a step back and am no longer able to track these things down on my own, and I've hit the '100 links per post' limit, but if you can leave suggestions for updates along with links in either the replies or my asks I will try and add them.

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[smallmeanie]

Are you currently reading anything?

horns by joe hill 😈

#asks #reading asks #frankie speaks

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

#and i know that sounds silly like YES. it was just a bookr ecommendation #but i feel like a lot of people either dont really care about whats a good starting point for younger kids in their shared fan spaces #or dont really take the care to recognize different peoples ages would effect what they would both enjoy or #be capable of engaging with #not to mention theres a lot of manga that would NOT have been appropriate for a 10 year old to read #so the fact that he askedd and even asked what sort of thing i liked at the time #was very sweet. i think about him a lot and i hope hes doing well #txt #scratchpost