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What to read after Alexandrian Sphinx by Gregory Jusdanis: 24 titles sharing themes of Arab & Middle Eastern, Middle Eastern, Literary Figures, and Social History, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Arab & Middle Eastern Middle Eastern Literary Figures Social History Cultural, Ethnic & Regional LGBTQ Literary Criticism Poetry Biography & Autobiography History

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Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

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Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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The Last Englishmen Love, War and the End of Empire

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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Thatcher Stole My Trousers

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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Mrs Woolf and the Servants The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

One Pair of Hands — Monica Dickens

One Pair of Hands

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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Constantine Cavafy A New Biography

Gregory Jusdanis

Themes: Literary Figures • LGBTQ • Literary Criticism

James Baldwin Living in Fire — Bill Mullen

James Baldwin Living in Fire

Themes: Literary Figures • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • LGBTQ

Children of the Land — Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Children of the Land

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Themes: Social History • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • LGBTQ

The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking — Olivia Laing

The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Literary Criticism

Dweller in Shadows A Life of Ivor Gurney — Kate Kennedy

Dweller in Shadows A Life of Ivor Gurney

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Literary Criticism

The Story of a People An Anthology of Palestinian Poets Within the Green-lines — Jamal Assadi

The Story of a People An Anthology of Palestinian Poets Within the Green-lines

Themes: Middle Eastern • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop An Oral Biography — Gary Fountain

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop An Oral Biography

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Literary Criticism

The Boundless Deep Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief — Richard Holmes

The Boundless Deep Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • Literary Criticism

Punch Me Up to the Gods A Memoir — Brian Broome

Punch Me Up to the Gods A Memoir

Themes: Literary Figures • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • LGBTQ

Survival Is a Promise The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde — Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Survival Is a Promise The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Themes: Literary Figures • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • LGBTQ

Memory for Forgetfulness August, Beirut, 1982 — Mahmoud Darwish

Memory for Forgetfulness August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Literary Criticism

Long Shot My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS — Azad Cudi

Long Shot My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Blazing Star The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester — Alexander Larman

Blazing Star The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Alexander Larman

Themes: Literary Figures • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Literary Criticism

The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS — Margaret Coker

The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Even After All This Time A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran — Afschineh Latifi

Even After All This Time A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran

Afschineh Latifi

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Rochester — Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Themes: Literary Figures • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Literary Criticism

The Beekeeper Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq — Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

The Beekeeper Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

An Improbable Friendship The Story Yasser Arafat’s Mother-in-law, the Wife of Israel’s Top General and Their Forty-year Mission of Peace — Anthony David

An Improbable Friendship The Story Yasser Arafat’s Mother-in-law, the Wife of Israel’s Top General and Their Forty-year Mission of Peace

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle Eastern • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Arab & Middle Eastern, Middle Eastern, Literary Figures — the same threads that run through Alexandrian Sphinx by Gregory Jusdanis. Among the authors featured: Hilton Als, DEBORAH BAKER, Alexei Sayle, Alison Light, and others.

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