282 books
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Middle East Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1067 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,551,555 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 888 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,776,095 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,272 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 474 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 235,514 ratings — published 2003
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,956 ratings — published 1989
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 399 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 37,521 ratings — published 2020
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 397 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 410,962 ratings — published 2012
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 394 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 210,407 ratings — published 2007
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,511 ratings — published 2006
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,259 ratings — published 1989
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,572 ratings — published 2003
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,162 ratings — published 2013
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,782 ratings — published 2012
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 297 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,720 ratings — published 2005
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.52 — 55,978 ratings — published 2006
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,586 ratings — published 1978
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,311 ratings — published 2020
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,087 ratings — published 2006
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,811 ratings — published 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,138 ratings — published 2006
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 251 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,506 ratings — published 2016
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,788 ratings — published 2002
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,663 ratings — published 1991
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,319 ratings — published 2004
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,632 ratings — published 2009
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.47 — 224,681 ratings — published 2024
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,239 ratings — published 2011
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,253 ratings — published 2009
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,261 ratings — published 2001
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 134,206 ratings — published 2019
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,728 ratings — published 2011
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,516 ratings — published 2019
Salt Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,819 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,405 ratings — published 2017
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,396 ratings — published 1994
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.25 — 182,764 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 190 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,061 ratings — published 2001
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 637,613 ratings — published 1997
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,534 ratings — published 800
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,405 ratings — published 2013
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,301 ratings — published 2005
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,815 ratings — published 1993
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.58 — 62,430 ratings — published 2025
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 333,951 ratings — published 1923
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,977 ratings — published 2018
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,343 ratings — published 1926
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 45,822 ratings — published 2017
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,220 ratings — published 2018
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,206 ratings — published 2013
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,819 ratings — published 1983
“It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.”
― Travels With Myself
― Travels With Myself
“...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.”
― A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred
― A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred












