Middle Eastern


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Complete Persepolis
The Prophet
And the Mountains Echoed
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
A Woman Is No Man
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
Mornings in Jenin
The Stationery Shop
Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina KhadraRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiThe Cry of the Dove by Fadia FaqirThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain Hashmi
Middle Eastern/South Asian Doorways
40 books — 17 voters
Los Sangurimas by José de la CuadraHuasipungo by Jorge IcazaLas cruces sobre el agua by Joaquín Gallegos LaraPelea de gallos by María Fernanda AmpueroUn hombre muerto a puntapiés by Pablo Palacio
Ecuadorian Literature
320 books — 51 voters

Aicha by Soraya BouazzaouiThe Free Verse Society by Delali AdjoaThe Poet Empress by Shen TaoThe Killing Spell by Shay KauweBound by Fury by Noelle Monét
Debut Poc Authors of 2026
35 books — 17 voters
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousNot Without My Daughter by Betty MahmoodyPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
482 books — 196 voters


Caroline  Scott
Stella daydreamed about Continental delicatessen stores and the scent of ripe tomatoes. She and Michael had liked to go to Covent Garden and Billingsgate together, to Fortnum & Mason, and to the little foreign grocers' shops around Golders Green, Soho and Camden Town. She'd loved to see the sacks of pistachio nuts and the jars of crystallized ginger, the bottles of orange-flower water and distillations of rose petals, suggestive of the flavors of dishes from The Arabian Nights, the barrels of pi ...more
Caroline Scott, Good Taste

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.
Zeina Kassem, Crossing

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