Rabih Alameddine Books in Order
Rabih Alameddine has written 8 books, published between 1998 and 2025. The first book is Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) and the newest is The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1998–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,628 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 27–41 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,628 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Rabih Alameddine, born in 1959, is a Lebanese painter and writer. Eight catalogued books run from Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) to The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (2025), which took the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction; The Wrong End of the Telescope (2021) had already taken the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Subject headings cover Lebanon and its civil war of 1975 to 1990, Lebanese Americans, emigration and immigration, gay men, AIDS and storytellers.
How many Rabih Alameddine books are there?
Rabih Alameddine has 8 books, released between 1998 and 2025.
Rabih Alameddine Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Rabih Alameddine 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.
- 1Koolaids: The Art of War1998 · 245 pages · confirmed 1/419982451/4
- 2The Perv1999 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/419991931/4
- 3I, The Divine2001 · confirmed 1/42001–1/4
- 4The Hakawati / The Storyteller2008 · 528 pages · confirmed 1/420085281/4
- 5An Unnecessary Woman2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 6The Angel of History2016 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/420162941/4
- 7The Wrong End of the Telescope2021 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420213681/4
- 8The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Rabih Alameddine 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 Rabih Alameddine titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Rabih Alameddine books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Rabih Alameddine books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Rabih Alameddine
Start with Koolaids: The Art of War (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Rabih Alameddine book?
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (2025) is the newest Rabih Alameddine book released so far.
Is there a new Rabih Alameddine book coming?
No next Rabih Alameddine 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 Rabih Alameddine has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Rabih Alameddine. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Bill Whitehead Award2025Won
- Prix Femina étranger2016Won
Rabih Alameddine at a glance
- Still publishing
- Rabih Alameddine published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Rabih Alameddine books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,628 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 294 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rabih Alameddine books, 2 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Rabih Alameddine books are about
5 of the 8 Rabih Alameddine books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: aids (disease) is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Aids (disease) 2 of 5 books
- Gay men 2 of 5 books
- Middle East 2 of 5 books
- War & military 2 of 5 books
- Arab American women 1 of 5 books
- Death (Personification) 1 of 5 books
- Devil 1 of 5 books
- Emigration and immigration 1 of 5 books
- FICTION / Literary 1 of 5 books
- Gossip 1 of 5 books
- History 1 of 5 books