Hala Alyan Books in Order
Hala Alyan has written 8 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is Atrium (2012) and the newest is I'll Tell You When I'm Home (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2012–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,336 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 22–33 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,336 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American writer, poet and clinical psychologist whose practice covers trauma, addiction and cross-cultural behaviour. Eight titles are catalogued, from Atrium (2012) onward, among them the novels Salt Houses (2017) and The Arsonists' City (2021), five poetry collections, and the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home (2025). Alyan took an Arab American Book Award in 2013 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2018; the memoir won the GLCA New Writers Award and stood as a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize. Palestinian Arabs, family life and culture conflict head the recorded subjects.
How many Hala Alyan books are there?
Hala Alyan has 8 books, released between 2012 and 2025.
Hala Alyan Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Hala Alyan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Atrium2012 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/420121041/4
- 2Hijra2016 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/42016881/4
- 3Salt Houses2017 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/420173121/4
- 4Tal2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 5The Twenty-Ninth Year2019 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/42019961/4
- 6The Arsonists' City2021 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/420214641/4
- 7The Moon That Turns You Back2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 8I'll Tell You When I'm Home2025 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420252721/4
Hala Alyan books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
8 books8 Hala Alyan titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Hala Alyan books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Hala Alyan books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Hala Alyan
Start with Atrium (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Hala Alyan book?
I'll Tell You When I'm Home (2025) is the newest Hala Alyan book released so far.
Is there a new Hala Alyan book coming?
No next Hala Alyan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Hala Alyan has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Hala Alyan. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize2018Won
Hala Alyan at a glance
- Still publishing
- Hala Alyan published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Hala Alyan books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,336 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 188 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Hala Alyan books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Hala Alyan books are about
5 of the 8 Hala Alyan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: poetry is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Poetry 3 of 5 books
- Family life 2 of 5 books
- Americans 1 of 5 books
- American literature 1 of 5 books
- Culture conflict 1 of 5 books
- Familles 1 of 5 books
- Family secrets 1 of 5 books
- Historical fiction 1 of 5 books
- Lebanon 1 of 5 books
- Palestine 1 of 5 books