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The Fire Wish

Amber Lough · 310 pages

"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--

DjinnYoung AdultMultiple POVMiddle Eastern Mythology
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The Rose & the Dagger

Renee Ahdieh · 432 pages

In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq n

DjinnYoung AdultMultiple POVMiddle Eastern Mythology
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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · 340 pages

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master,"--NoveList.

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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The Stardust Thief

Chelsea Abdullah · 468 pages

DjinnMultiple POVMiddle Eastern MythologyFemale Lead
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Blood Passage

Heather Demetrios · 481 pages

When Nalia arrives in Morocco to fulfill Malek's third and final wish, she's not expecting it to be easy. Especially because Malek isn't the only one after Solomon's sigil, an ancient magical ring that gives its wearer the power to control the entire jinn race. Nalia has also promised to take Raif, leader of the jinn revolution, to its remote location.

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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The Kingdom of Copper: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy)

Shannon A. Chakraborty · 640 pages

DjinnMultiple POVMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · 518 pages

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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Smokeless Fire

Samantha Young · 355 pages

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFemale Lead
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A Whole New World

Liz Braswell · 376 pages

"Aladdin is a street rat. There's really no getting around that. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help

DjinnYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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HWJN

Ibraheem Abbas, Yasser Bahjatt · 320 pages

DjinnMiddle Eastern MythologyYoung AdultFantasy
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Jinn and Juice

Nicole Peeler · 374 pages

"Born in ancient Persia, Leila turned to her house Jinni, Kouros, for help escaping an arranged marriage. Kouros did make it impossible for her to marry--by cursing Leila to live a thousand years as a Jinni herself. Unfortunately, becoming Bound may risk more than just her chance to be human once more: it could risk her very soul"--

DjinnMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasyRomance
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The Amulet of Samarkand

Jonathan Stroud · 462 pages

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

DjinnYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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The Kingdom of Copper

S. A. Chakraborty · 684 pages

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a

DjinnMultiple POVMiddle Eastern MythologyFemale Lead
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This Woven Kingdom

Tahereh Mafi · 512 pages

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFemale Lead
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Becoming Jinn

Lori Goldstein · 392 pages

Azra has just turned sixteen, and overnight her body lengthens, her olive skin deepens, and her eyes glisten gold thanks to the brand-new silver bangle that locks around her wrist. As she always knew it would, her Jinn ancestry brings not just magical powers but the reality of a life of servitude, as her wish granting is controlled by a remote ruling class of Jinn known as the Afrit. To the hu

DjinnYoung AdultFantasyFemale Lead
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Salman Rushdie · 304 pages

"From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush modern fairytale in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling" -- Provided by publisher. "Once u

DjinnMultiple POVMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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The Secret of Ka

Christopher Pike · 416 pages

When fifteen-year-old Sara unearths a flying carpet in Turkey, it takes her and new friend Amesh to the mysterious Island of the Djinn where she faces terrible creatures and an impossible decision--whether to save mankind, herself, or the boy she is coming to love.

DjinnYoung AdultMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasy
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Beautiful Darkness

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 507 pages

Together Ethan and Lena can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in th

TeenagersYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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The Crimson Crown

Cinda Williams Chima · 598 pages

"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--

TeenagersYoung AdultMultiple POVFemale Lead
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown · 466 pages

TeenagersYoung AdultMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Declare

Tim Powers · 528 pages

As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the

DjinnMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasyMale Lead
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

A.S. Byatt · 277 pages

A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.

DjinnMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasyFemale Lead
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Revelations

Melissa de la Cruz · 264 pages

Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side.

TeenagersYoung AdultMultiple POVFantasy
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Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson · 448 pages

In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his comput

DjinnMiddle Eastern MythologyFantasyMale Lead
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