Books like Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Annabeth, daughter of Athena, must overcome her fears and protect her Greek friends from the Roman camp during the quest to find the Mark of Athena.

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

Americanah follows Ifemelu, a Nigerian student who moves to the United States for university, exploring her life and love across continents while reflecting on identity, immigration, and cultural belonging.

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, *Fun Home*, chronicles her complex relationship with her father, a funeral-home director, and her own coming-of-age as a lesbian, using intimate drawings and witty narrative.

After the epic battle reshaping the Seven Kingdoms, dragons, magic, and looming threats intersect as Daenerys, Tyrion, and Jon Snow confront their own trials, setting the stage for the series’ most perilous conflict.

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize‑winning novel, intertwines India’s journey from colonial rule to independence with the personal saga of Saleem Sinai in a tale of historical myth and magical realism.

In Tehran, Azar Nafisi secretly hires seven female students each week to read banned Western classics, revealing the personal and political struggles of women under Iran’s revolutionary regime.

Jung Chang paints a vivid portrait of China’s social conditions, tracing the lives of families and women from the 1920s through the Cultural Revolution in a personal, biographical style.

Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical narrative recounts her escape from slavery in North Carolina, her concealment in a hidden garret for seven years, and her eventual reunion with her children in the North.

A collection of eight short stories that follows modern Bengali‑American families across India, Thailand, Cambridge, and Seattle, revealing the quiet mysteries of love, duty, and identity.

Mildred D. Taylor’s sequel to *Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* follows the Logan family in 1930s Mississippi as they confront racism, injustice, and family struggles during the Great Depression.

The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. presents King's own words—letters, diaries, recordings—edited by Dr. Clayborne Carson, offering a vivid portrait of the civil‑rights leader and the era he shaped.

Bobby, a classic urban teenager, is faced with the reality of becoming a father when his girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant.

A compelling tale of resilience, imagination, and the power of storytelling through the eyes of a young orphan from a war-torn island and his new found love of reading, as he discovers the magic of adventure and the strength of the human spirit.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s "Nomad" is a stark memoir that follows her life after leaving her Somali homeland, detailing her exile, the scrutiny from Islamist circles, and her personal battle with identity and freedom.

Eduardo F. Calcines shares his journey from childhood in Castro's Cuba to becoming a successful American businessman, detailing the 11-year wait his family faced before emigrating.

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia's Revenge, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state"—and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases. In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, Surviving Gaia's Revenge offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

An autobiographical account of G. Willow Wilson’s journey from atheist to Muslim, detailing her move to Cairo, her relationships, and her attempts to merge American and Islamic cultures.

Ayaan Ali Hirsi makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings--not least the duty to wage holy war--are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim Reformation--a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity--is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness--not least by Muslim women--to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end its appeasement of the Islamists. "Islam is not a religion of peace," she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world's number one problem.