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Books set in Turkey:



Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Portrait Of A Turkish Family by Irfan Orga
Bliss: A Novel by Zülfü Livaneli
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Book of Things by İlhan Berk
The Garden of the Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills by Latife Tekin
The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
The Road from Home by David Kherdian
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The Autobiography Of A Turkish Girl Çalkuu or The Wren by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse by Nazım Hikmet
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Not Even My Name: A True Story by Thea Halo
The Prophet Murders by Mehmet Murat Somer
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Sanctus by Simon Toyne
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale by George Gordon Byron
The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
The Ottoman Cage: A Novel of Istanbul by Barbara Nadel
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Last Love in Constantinople: A Tarot Novel for Divination by Milorad Pavić
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam by Roger Crowley
Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel
Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal
Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul by John Freely
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
The Secret History by Procopius
Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips
Fourth Company by Rıfat Ilgaz
Leyla: The Black Tulip by Alev Lytle Croutier
House With Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide Edib by Halide Edib Adıvar
Iron Earth, Copper Sky by Yaşar Kemal
Summer's End by Adalet Ağaoğlu
Sleeping In The Forest: by Sait Faik Abasıyanık
The Gigolo Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
The house of silence by Orhan Pamuk
The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey by Anastasia M. Ashman
The Gaze by Elif Shafak
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
Gardens of Water: A Novel by Alan Drew
The Lovers by Vendela Vida
Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within by Elif Shafak Şafak
Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Lords of the Horizons A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
Death on the Black Sea by Douglas Frantz
Twice a Stranger by Bruce Clark
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk

More books set in Turkey:



On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul by Jason Goodwin
Life On The Golden Horn by Mary Wortley Montagu
Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922 by Giles Milton
Alexander's Path by Freya Stark
Celebration by Mary Lee Settle
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin
Enlightenment by Maureen Freely
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
Dervishes by Beth Helms
The Rage of the Vulture by Barry Unsworth
A Fez Of The Heart: Travels Around Turkey In Search Of A Hat by Jeremy Seal
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place by Mary Lee Settle

The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman

Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin

Seven Houses: A Novel by Alev Lytle Croutier

A Tale of Four Dervishes by Mir Amman

A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu

Poems of Nazım Hikmet by Nâzım Hikmet

Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga
is wonderful.

Just a correction The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf is set in Lebanon, not Turkey. His novel Ports of Call starts out in Turkey, moves to France and Lebanon.

Jalilah wrote: "Just a correction The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf is set in Lebanon, not Turkey. His novel Ports of Call starts out in Turkey, moves to France and Lebanon."

Thanks!

Mount Qaf by Muge IplikCi

A Traveller's Guide to Homer: A Journey across Turkey in the Footsteps of Odysseus by John Freely

Constantinopolis by James D. Shipman

Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Sleeping In The Forest: by Sait Faik

Endgame by Ahmet Altan

A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie

Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptaş

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş

Endgame by Ahmet Altan

Kiraze by Solmaz Kâmuran

The Time of Mute Swans by Ece Temelkuran

The Stone Building and Other Places by Asli Erdoğan

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak

A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

More books set in Turkey:


Ankara by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
A Cup of Turkish Coffee by Buket Uzuner
The Few by Hakan Günday
House with Wisteria by Halide Edib
I Am Istanbul by Buket Uzuner
Istanbul Blues by Buket Uzuner
The Long White Cloud - Gallipoli by Buket Uzuner
Mediterranean Waltz by Buket Uzuner
Motherland Hotel by Yusuf Atılgan
Secret Agency by Alper Canıgüz
The Shirt of Flame by Halide Edib
The Sound of Fishsteps by Buket Uzuner
Two Green Otters: Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and all the Others by Buket Uzuner
Water by Buket Uzuner (1st Adventure of Misfit Defne Kaman)

More books set in Turkey:


2 Girls by Perihan Mağden
Accursed Years: My Exile and Return from Der Zor, 1914-1919 by Yervant Odian
Aeolian Visions / Versions: Modern & Contemporary Turkish Poetry and Fiction
The Alexiad by Anna Comnena
Ali and Ramazan by Perihan Mağden
Almost a Turkish Soap Opera by Anne-Rae Vasquez
Amat by İhsan Oktay Anar
Anatolian Days and Nights
Anatolian Tales by Yaşar Kemal
And I Darken by Kiersten White
Anfield of Dreams: A Kopite's Odyssey by Neil Dunkin
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian
Ayshe, an Anatolian Tale by Fatma Durmush
As the Red Carnation Fades by Feyza Hepçilingirler
Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango
Atatürk: The Rebirth Of A Nation by John Patrick Douglas Balfour
Aylin by Ayşe Kulin
Baksheesh by Esmahan Aykol
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
Best of Perihan Mağden by Perihan Mağden
Between the Two Rivers: A Story of the Armenian Genocide by Aida Kouyoumjian
Beyond the Walls by Nâzım Hikmet Ran
The Birthday That Changed Everything by Debbie Johnson
Black Amber by Phyllis A. Whitney
Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
Blue Voyage by Diana Renn
The Book of Dede Korkut by Anonymous
The Book of Istanbul: A City in Short Fiction by Nedim Gürsel
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Rumi
The Book of Madness by Levent Şenyürek
Book of the Edge by Ece Temelkuran
Boundless Solitude by Selim İleri
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
Bright Is Dark Enough by Feyyaz Fergar
The Calligraphers' Night by Yasmine Ghata
The Captive by Victoria Holt
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf
City of Man's Desire: A Novel of Constantinople by Cornelia Golna
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
A Colder War by Charles Cumming (2nd book in Thomas Kell series)
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Conqueror by Nedim Gürsel
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
Count Robert of Paris by Walter Scott
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer
Curfew by Adalet Ağaoğlu
Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (2nd book in Wildwood Series)
Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
The Dance of the Eagle and the Fish by Aziz Nesin
The Dark Angel by Mika Waltari
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
The Daydreaming Boy by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
A Dead Man in Istanbul by Michael Pearce (2nd book in series)
Dear Shameless Death by Latife Tekin
A Death in the Venetian Quarter by Alan Gordon (3rd book in Fools' Guild series)
Death In Troy by Bilge Karasu
Deep Mountain by Ece Temelkuran
Deli by Refik Halid Karay
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff (1st book in series)
The Dervish by Frances Kazan
The Dervish Gate by Ahmet Ümit
Divorce Turkish Style by Esmahan Aykol
A Dot On The Map: Selected Stories by Sait Faik
The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems by Yunus Emre
The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire by Linda Lafferty
The Emperor Tea Garden by Nazlı Eray
The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh
Erevan by Gilbert Sinoué
Escape by Perihan Mağden
The Essential Rumi by Rumi
Europe in Women's Short Stories from Turkey by Gültekin Emre
Evil Eye by Veronica Di Grigoli
The Evolution of Fear by Paul E. Hardisty (2nd book in Claymore Straker series)
Exile by Çiler İlhan
Exit Actors, Dying by Margot Arnold

Tea & Bee's Milk: Our Year in a Turkish Village by Karen Gilden

The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak

Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet.

Against the Storm by Gaye Hiçyılmaz.

Anyush by Martine Madden,

Seven Sunny Days by Chris Manby is about a holiday to Turkey.

Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat