We asked the Amaliah community what their recommended reads for the year ahead were. We’ve seen some favs, some new recommendations and many have been added to our personal wish list for the year ahead. From books on race to religion or romance, there’s a pick for everyone.  We’ve curated the list for you and you may spot some of our fav #bookstagrammers below.

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1.Quran of the Oppressed: Liberation theology and gender justice in Islam

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz1ZBvOgPTc/

2. Loud Black Girls

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFDcOKAw8R/

3. The Beekeeper of Aleppo

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDipMNlqXA9/

4. Muhammad by Martin Ling

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByOIlNMgsWt/

5. Secrets of Divine Love

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFkc7oHXjo/

6. Pachinko

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdAkEjAL9n/

7. Sex and World Peace

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-eUsStF1by/

8. Slavery in Islam

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAu1VuWA17y/

9. Ayesha at Last

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF91L9HgB4s/

10. The Problem with Forever

https://www.instagram.com/p/CADVbbKq7t1/

11. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFoyX5tgDIp/

12. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLtmTdAB3n/

13. Your Silence will not Protect you

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4fS0wHl8w/

14. The Patient: He’ll use your fear against you

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6lU4qgQTs/

15. Mornings in Jenin

https://www.instagram.com/p/B56ChfPAo2O/

15. Traveling Home

16. Minaret

17. Natives: Akala

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5XIFaHntN-/

18. The stoning is Soraya

19. The lies that bind

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFid5_pgWUL/

20. The Parisian

21. The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam

22. A woman in no man

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAXu7_Sg7e_/

23. A fly girls guide to university

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZGRRZF4W2/

24. The beauty of your face

https://www.instagram.com/p/CE6mTJBAMt3/

24. Our Women on the ground: Arab journalists

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEe-cEblWy6/

25. Awaken the giant in you

26. When I hit you

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjjVs9WA64T/

28. Homes: A refugee Story

https://www.instagram.com/p/B00qBjNFUZq/

29. When we were Arabs

https://www.instagram.com/p/B233WpOoL0k/

30. The Pact we made

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Uel0tgqyM/

31. Girl, woman, other…

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFR7Dg-gg32/

32. The Vanishing half

https://www.instagram.com/p/CElUSZSFNWI/

33. Kite runner

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqn4IUgsE3/

34. The map of salt and stars

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFjkIpUJWrp/

35. White Tiger

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Fv-Twgv6Y/

36. Jumpa Lahiri: In other words

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1or08eIf2l/

37. The body keeps score

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEyvD3qjc-c/

38. A place for us

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_VGtMLAqYb/

39. The Family Tree

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZCOFOq4o_/

40. Love in colour

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_u6azgV24/

41. Sweet cultivation By Allia Dahmes

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGF6UUAAwCp/

42. The Little Prince

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGR7P3rAjaN/

43. Think like a white man

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcFiqvDrC_/

44. Salt Houses

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BYhwTASKq/

45. You people by Nikita Lalwani

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCH6HPgqRD/

46. Zainab Ghazzali’s Return of the Pharaoh

47.The Star Outside my Window

https://www.instagram.com/p/B34At8RlZNC/

48.The Shadow of the wind

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFNk1AApWX/

49. Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFMQzDGg66t/

50. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMeO3_g8_0/