🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Diana Abu-Jaber
“Crescent” was awarded the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction. It was also named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor. “Arabian Jazz” won the Oregon Book Award in 1994 and got a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination. She finds that it is best to just ignore writer’s block and power on through. Diana gets inspired to write by paying attention, and she carries pens and notebooks around with her. “Arabian Jazz” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 1993. A small and poor white community in upstate New York becomes the home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud, his sister (Fatima) and her husband (Zaeed), his grown daughters (Melvina and Jemorah).
All Book Series by Diana Abu-Jaber
Delivering a Public Speech: Learning the Process of Mass Addressing
Book 2 of 3 · published 2014
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
Book 2 of 4 · published 2006
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Diana Abu-Jaber?
“Crescent” was awarded the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction. It was also named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor. “Arabian Jazz” won the Oregon Book Award in 1994 and got a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination. She finds that it is best to just ignore writer’s block and power on through.
Which Diana Abu-Jaber series should I start with?
Diana Abu-Jaber's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Arabian Jazz (1993).
How many books has Diana Abu-Jaber written?
Diana Abu-Jaber has 13 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2022. They are filed under 4 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Standalone Novels, Anthologies and Non-Fiction.
In what order should Diana Abu-Jaber's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 13 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are Diana Abu-Jaber's books organised into series?
This guide splits Diana Abu-Jaber's 13 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (5 books); Anthologies (4 books); Non-Fiction (3 books); Children's (1 book).