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Ten Things I Hate About Me Ten Things I Hate About Me Ten Things I Hate About Me is a 2006 award winning young adult novel by Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and her second work. The book was first released in Australia on October 1, 2006 through Pan MacMillan Australia. "Ten Things I Hate About Me" was awarded the 2008 "Kathleen Mitchell Award for Excellence in Young Adult Writing" and was shortlisted for the 2008 "Redbridge Book Award". The book, like many of Abdel-Fattah's novels, covers topics pertaining to discrimination and racism towards Muslims and people of diverse ethnic backgrounds as well as various teenage topics.