SheReaders Book Club

Did you fall in love with a book this year? Discover an unforgettable story? Join us for our year-end celebration called Best Things I Read in 2025, where we swap our favorite reads from the past year!

Whether you devoured five books or fifty, this is your chance to share what moved you, inspired you, or made you stay up past your bedtime.

We'll open the floor for informal sharing, so come ready to talk books—and to take notes. You’re guaranteed to leave with a library hold list full of treasures and a fresh spark for your 2026 reading life.

✨ Bring your best recommendations.
🖊️ Have a pen and paper ready.
📖 Reinvigorate your reading life.

We can’t wait to hear what you were loving most this year!

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life.

Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe.

But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all.

Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are—not a war, but a revolution—and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria’s freedom.