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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1999
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • “Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award"nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times).   Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese ci...




  • A provocative first collection of stories by the author of Koolaids

    Following the publication of his critically acclaimed first novel, Koolaids, Rabih Alameddine offers a collection of stories that explores the experience of a number of Le...



  • One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsNamed after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell ...



  • An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to st...



  • An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddine’s cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you "can’t hel...



  • One of the Middle East’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old unnecessary woman. Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her ...



  • Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic...



  • WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONBy National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among...




Award-Winning Books by Rabih Alameddine

The Wrong End of the Telescope
2022 PEN/Faulkner Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rabih Alameddine has published 8 books.

Rabih Alameddine does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wrong End of the Telescope, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Rabih Alameddine, The Perv, was published in July 1999.

No. Rabih Alameddine does not write books in series.