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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 639 times as iran)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,893 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 624 times as iran)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,421 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 602 times as iran)
avg rating 4.28 — 243,788 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,951 ratings — published 1937
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 360 times as iran)
avg rating 4.46 — 294,704 ratings — published 2024
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,775 ratings — published 2019
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 268 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 234,835 ratings — published 2024
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,426 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 254 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,733 ratings — published 2001
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 224 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 33,120 ratings — published 2003
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,171 ratings — published 1973
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 184 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,126 ratings — published 2016
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,346 ratings — published 2017
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,160 ratings — published 1982
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,934 ratings — published 1973
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,348 ratings — published 2007
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,872 ratings — published 2006
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,677 ratings — published 2007
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,096 ratings — published 2003
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 38,171 ratings — published 2018
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as iran)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,439 ratings — published 2004
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,127 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as iran)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,969 ratings — published 2005
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,256 ratings — published 2008
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,395 ratings — published 2013
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 961 ratings — published 2017
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,781 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,232 ratings — published 2008
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 — 4,763 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as iran)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,671 ratings — published 1010
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,151 ratings — published 2008
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,481 ratings — published 2014
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,770 ratings — published 1120
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,383 ratings — published 1969
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as iran)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,880 ratings — published 2025
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 736 ratings — published 1985
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,061 ratings — published 2008
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as iran)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,646 ratings — published 2016
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,149 ratings — published 2007
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,118 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 91 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,817 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,971 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,464 ratings — published 2018
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,970 ratings — published 2009
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as iran)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,678 ratings — published 2023
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,044 ratings — published 2016
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,959 ratings — published 1992
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,156 ratings — published 2012
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,655 ratings — published 1177
Together Tea: A Heartwarming Debut of a Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Persian Culture to Love and Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,014 ratings — published 2013
“You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
