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Iran Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as iran)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,790 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 604 times as iran)
avg rating 4.41 — 212,471 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 574 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 237,470 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,287 ratings — published 1937
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as iran)
avg rating 4.47 — 241,495 ratings — published 2024
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 137,622 ratings — published 2019
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,804 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 246 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,509 ratings — published 2001
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 202,995 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 214 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,920 ratings — published 2003
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 10,986 ratings — published 1973
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 179 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,906 ratings — published 2016
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,811 ratings — published 1982
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,038 ratings — published 2007
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,203 ratings — published 2017
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,698 ratings — published 1973
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,825 ratings — published 2006
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,597 ratings — published 2007
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,808 ratings — published 2003
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,725 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,752 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,247 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as iran)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,859 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,178 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,217 ratings — published 2008
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as iran)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,339 ratings — published 2013
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,759 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as iran)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,811 ratings — published 1010
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 905 ratings — published 2017
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,732 ratings — published 2008
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,400 ratings — published 2014
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,080 ratings — published 2008
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,420 ratings — published 1120
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 714 ratings — published 1985
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,196 ratings — published 1969
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,049 ratings — published 2008
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,885 ratings — published 2007
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,026 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 87 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,450 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,910 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,375 ratings — published 2018
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as iran)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,563 ratings — published 2025
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran: shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as iran)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,128 ratings — published 2016
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,959 ratings — published 2009
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,021 ratings — published 2016
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 45,366 ratings — published 2020
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 — 1,941 ratings — published 1992
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,240 ratings — published 2023
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,230 ratings — published 2006
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,114 ratings — published 2012
“First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.”
― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
