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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 596 times as iran)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,002 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 574 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 204,112 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 561 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 229,281 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,360 ratings — published 1937
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 120,284 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 243 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 78,814 ratings — published 2001
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as iran)
avg rating 4.48 — 152,824 ratings — published 2024
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as iran)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,383 ratings — published 2003
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 209 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,579 ratings — published 2003
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 151,826 ratings — published 2024
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 167 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,541 ratings — published 2016
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,700 ratings — published 2007
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,021 ratings — published 1982
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,704 ratings — published 2006
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,971 ratings — published 2017
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as iran)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,432 ratings — published 2007
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as iran)
avg rating 3.72 — 6,802 ratings — published 1973
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 36,840 ratings — published 2018
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,348 ratings — published 1973
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,412 ratings — published 2003
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,273 ratings — published 2004
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,311 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,273 ratings — published 2005
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,196 ratings — published 2008
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,736 ratings — published 2005
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,004 ratings — published 2008
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as iran)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,650 ratings — published 1010
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 778 ratings — published 2017
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as iran)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,199 ratings — published 2013
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as iran)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,614 ratings — published 2008
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as iran)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,971 ratings — published 2008
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,105 ratings — published 1120
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,186 ratings — published 2014
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as iran)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,019 ratings — published 2008
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as iran)
avg rating 4.19 — 38,702 ratings — published 1987
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 14,477 ratings — published 2007
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as iran)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,784 ratings — published 2013
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 675 ratings — published 1985
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,167 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 — 1,939 ratings — published 2009
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,750 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 — 1,919 ratings — published 1992
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,955 ratings — published 2016
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,867 ratings — published 1177
Together Tea (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as iran)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,424 ratings — published 2013
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,074 ratings — published 2006
If You Could Be Mine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as iran)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,364 ratings — published 2013
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,926 ratings — published 2012
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 42,395 ratings — published 2020
“The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the women and children to get out and run and hide. But Ilina realized in some vague way that he never managed to actually say the word "hide." He really said, "Women and children, get out, get out, get out! Run and..." The clerk's wife thought it was odd that he had stopped in the middle of a sentence, and even stranger that she herself knew the word, heard the word "hide" in her head when the driver stopped talking.”
― The Caucasian Menace
― The Caucasian Menace
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
