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Iran Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 611 times as iran)
avg rating 3.66 — 141,316 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 584 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 208,187 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 567 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 233,356 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,372 ratings — published 1937
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 129,125 ratings — published 2019
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as iran)
avg rating 4.48 — 197,498 ratings — published 2024
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 245 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 79,558 ratings — published 2001
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,999 ratings — published 2003
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as iran)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,668 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 210 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,144 ratings — published 2003
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,717 ratings — published 2016
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,447 ratings — published 1982
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as iran)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,408 ratings — published 1973
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,849 ratings — published 2007
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,081 ratings — published 2017
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,761 ratings — published 2006
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,497 ratings — published 1973
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,513 ratings — published 2007
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,558 ratings — published 2003
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,271 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,518 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,801 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as iran)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,492 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,069 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,207 ratings — published 2008
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 831 ratings — published 2017
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,659 ratings — published 2008
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as iran)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,267 ratings — published 2013
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,745 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as iran)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,734 ratings — published 1010
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as iran)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,020 ratings — published 2008
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,285 ratings — published 2014
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,223 ratings — published 1120
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,073 ratings — published 1969
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as iran)
avg rating 4.09 — 690 ratings — published 1985
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,036 ratings — published 2008
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 14,677 ratings — published 2007
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as iran)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,439 ratings — published 1987
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,031 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as iran)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,837 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,253 ratings — published 2018
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,948 ratings — published 2009
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,988 ratings — published 2016
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,928 ratings — published 1992
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 44,015 ratings — published 2020
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,802 ratings — published 2025
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,911 ratings — published 2023
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,306 ratings — published 1177
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,146 ratings — published 2006
“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Lost Identity
― Lost Identity













