The best new books on Palestine, straight to your door.
There has never been as much work on Palestine published in English as there is today.
The PalFest Bookshelf is a curated subscription that delivers key books, along with bespoke extras, straight to your door.
Subscribers receive six shipments a year – every other month, with book club conversations – both online and irl – offered in the months in-between.
Bookshelf members give critical support to daring new publishing on Palestine – crucial in this moment of increased censorship.
October & November 2025
The October/November Bookshelf bundle includes two new releases:
Palestine is Everywhere is an anthology of new writing brilliantly assembled by Skye Arundhati Thomas and Edwin Nasr which features, among essays, poetry, photography and reportage, letters from prison written by PalFest author Alaa Abd el-Fattah – who has just been released after twelve years.
Mahmoud al-Shaer is a writer and editor who played a central role developing young writers’ voices in Gaza, before his life’s work was destroyed by Israel. He remains caught in Gaza, and A Year on the Abyss of Genocide* collects his diaries published on his GoFundMe.
Unfortunately we are unable to include A Year on the Abyss of Genocide in the October/November shipment to US subscribers due to tariffs. We hope to include it in a future shipment if/when the tariffs on book shipments into the US from Canada are lifted.
Past Bundles
“This curation of books on Palestine and ongoing conversations with writers is such a great idea. An invaluable resource to guide our thinking and to connect us to one another.”
““The Palestine Festival of Literature does the important work of connecting writers of all backgrounds with the land and people of Palestine. This latest project - a curated collection of works by some of our most preeminent Palestinian writers – is an extension of that undertaking. It continues their mission of marrying the great power of literature with the great fight of our time: the eradication of apartheid in general, and the freedom of Palestinians in particular. This is a much needed effort from one of the preeminent literary organizations of our time.””
““What a necessary and timely gift to all of us! The PalFest Bookshelf features a curated selection of urgent and beautiful books written by some of the most talented writers, and sends them directly to you. It feels like a ray of hope.””
““Given the constraints of time how to choose between all the books about Palestine that are out in the world? Enter the good people of PalFest whose qualities of political wisdom, emotional intelligence, reliability and very good taste make them the perfect candidates to do the choosing for you. And given their reach and creative flair the ‘bonus features’ are likely to be extraordinary. Sign me up.””