Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling and award winning author of the young adult novels Love, Hate, & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know and Hollow Fires. She is also the author of the middle grade fantasy duology Amira & Hamza and the Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit comic series. She was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, IL in a house that smelled like fried onions, garlic, and potpourri. She has lived in New York, Chicago, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. She invites you to visit her online at www.samiraahmed.com and on Twitter and Instagram @sam_aye_ahm.

All Books By Samira Ahmed

Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
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Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Narrator: Soneela Nankani
  • Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: September 21, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (331 ratings)
(331 ratings)
From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories. On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her... Read more
Hollow Fires
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Hollow Fires
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Narrator: Samira Ahmed
  • Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: May 10, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (1261 ratings)
(1261 ratings)
A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope, by New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed. Perfect for fans of Sadie and Dear Martin.... Read more
Internment
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Internment
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Narrator: Soneela Nankani
  • Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: March 19, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (13943 ratings)
(13943 ratings)
Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the... Read more
Love, Hate & Other Filters
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Love, Hate & Other Filters
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Narrator: Samira Ahmed
  • Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: January 16, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (11153 ratings)
(11153 ratings)
In this unforgettable debut, a Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the... Read more
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: April 07, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (1791 ratings)
(1791 ratings)
Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of cultural expectations in... Read more
Magic Has No Borders
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Magic Has No Borders
  • By: Samira Ahmed
  • Narrator: Anil Margsahayam
  • Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperTeen
  • Publish date: May 23, 2023
  • Language: English
  • (87 ratings)
(87 ratings)
From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona... Read more

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Broken Bread Food was no longer a means of division-no longer a curtain. The curtain had become a tablecloth, and the table was laid with Christ the son.Ever notice how much time Jesus spent around a table? If he wasn’t sharing a meal with others, he was handing out free meals. If Jesus called himself the “bread of life,” why is it that our relationship with food is so complicated? We love it. We hate ... Read Book
The Tao of Joy Every Day In Eastern wisdom traditions, it is taught that practicing one small bit of wisdom each day will add up to a life of insight and joy. This volume of 365 life-transforming readings brings the sacred teachings of the Tao to our everyday lives. The Tao of Joy Every Day contains Taoist sayings, insights, and stories-all designed to clearly provide understanding of what makes our lives meaningful, ... Read Book
If the Oceans Were Ink Hailed by the Washington Post as “mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” this powerful journey will help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today. If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power’s eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and ... Read Book
Flame Flame is the next Dark Kings book in New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant’s series.If she believed in destiny, she would believe they were meant for each other.But that fire was put out long ago . . .Living among the Dragon Kings, Cain has spent lifetimes learning to distrust both mortals and Fae. He is a warrior born-and every instinct demands that he fight to keep his own kind safe. ... Read Book
Serpents in the Cold A serial killer stalks the streets of 1950s Boston — and two friends take it upon themselves to bring him down. Post-war Boston is down on its luck and looking for change. A year after the Great Brink’s Robbery — the largest robbery in the history of the United States — Boston is known more for its seedy underbelly than for its rich, historical past. The winter of 1951 is the worst in ... Read Book
The Polished Hoe Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke’s masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality. “. brilliantly written dialogue, a ... Read Book
Movie Nights with the Reagans The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)–told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as they screened movies on Friday and Saturday ... Read Book
The Girls I’ve Been Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown! In this feminist, suspenseful thriller the daughter of a con artist is taken hostage in a bank heist—and will need to tap into all her skills in order to survive. A BUSTLE, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN, BUZZFEED and MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2021 Nora O’Malley’s been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who ... Read Book
Saints of Feather and Fang From sheepdogs to wombats to coyotes to jellyfish, animals serve important biological roles in the world. But those who love animals know there’s more. We know our connection to other creatures is more than fur, scale, or feather deep.In Saints of Feather and Fang, writer and lifelong animal lover Caryn Rivadeneira looks at the ways that animals-from the pets who share our homes to the ... Read Book
Storm & Fury New Pittsburgh, 1898-a crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood and earthquake, the city is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. In the swarming streets, people of a hundred nations drudge to feed the engines of progress. The Department of Supernatural Investigation was set up to take care of those things that live below, that go bump in the ... Read Book
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