On Palestine and/or written by Palestinians:

• Stranger in My Own Land - Fida Jiryis (memoir by Palestinian citizen of Israel & her family)
• Evil Eye - Etaf Rum
• Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
• Minor Detail - Adani Shibli [slim volume but powerful read; author whose ceremony to receive an award at Frankfurt Book Festival was cancelled simply because she's a proud Palestinian]
• The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist - Emile Habiby [Rashid Khalidi gave a shoutout to this novel in The Hundred Years' War on Palestine & called it "brilliant" & one of the most important works of 1970s]
• Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories - Ghassan Kanafani [Israel so threatened by this compilation of short stories that they had the author's car blown up]

On Congo:

• Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - Siddarth Kara