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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2005
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Book List in Order: 4 titles



  • “A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise.” -- Junot Diaz​Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring...



  • Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him. Leaving his mother behind, Youssef assu...



  • In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a d...



  • From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherou...




Award-Winning Books by Laila Lalami

The Moor's Account
2015 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laila Lalami has published 4 books.

Laila Lalami does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Other Americans, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in October 2005.

No. Laila Lalami does not write books in series.