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Books set in Iraq:
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq 
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
A Hundred And One Days by Åsne Seierstad
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace by Tamara Chalabi
Absent: A Novel by Betool Khedairi
The Last Of The Angels: A Modern Iraqi Novel by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein 
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon
Hidden in Plain Sight: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi
Barefoot in Baghdad by Manal M. Omar
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq by Farnaz Fassihi
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
Daughters of Iraq by Revital Shiri-Horowitz
Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel by Jessica Jiji
The Nightingale by Morgana Gallaway
The Angel With One Hundred Wings by Daniel Horch
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
A Sky So Close: A Novel by Betool Khedairi
Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile by Nuha Al-Radi
Valley of the Assassins by Freya Stark
Sand Queen by Helen Benedict
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq by Freya Stark
Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq 
The Shi'is of Iraq by Yitzhak Nakash
Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq by Dave Hnida
Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh
Vathek by William Beckford
Scattered Crumbs: A Novel by Muhsin Ramli
The Long Way Back: A Modern Arabic Novel by Fuad al-Takarli
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam 
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava 
I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story by Michael Hastings
The Poet of Baghdad: A True Story of Love and Defiance by Jo Tatchell
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq 
Sniper One by Dan Mills
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Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi
The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader
The Traveler and the Innkeeper by Fadhil al-Azzawi
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace by Ali A. Allawi
Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Babylon by Bus by Ray LeMoine
The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim
Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi by Salam Pax
Thirsty River by Rodaan Al Galidi
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq by Tariq Ali
Papa Sartre by Ali Bader
The Oppressors by Samira Al-Mana
Adam & Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
Cell Block Five by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq 
Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation 
The Kurds in Iraq: The Past, Present and Future by Kerim Yildiz
In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq by Nir Rosen
Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story by Ahmed Mansour
The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers
Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun by Wafaa Bilal
Escape from Saddam: the Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom 
Out of Iraq: Escape from Saddam and Al-Qaeda by Mahmoud Albayati
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
Revolution Day by Rageh Omaar
In Search of Walid Masoud by جبرا إبراهيم جبرا
A Banquet For Seaweed by Haydar Haydar
Thura's Diary by Thura al-Windawi
The Foreigner's Gift by Fouad Ajami
Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile by Nuha Al-Radi
The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation by Arash Hejazi
Howling in Mesopotamia: True Tales from Beyond the Green Zone 
Betrayed: Escape from Iraq by Latifa Ali
Dreaming of Baghdad by Haifa Zangana
The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans by Hala Jaber
Just read the excellent
. Currently only 99p on kindle in the UK.......quite a bargain.
The New Iraq: Rebuilding The Country For Its People, The Middle East, And The World by Joseph Braude
Here are a couple books about Baghdad:
The Struggle Trilogy
The initial short intro is free: The Struggle
Hope you enjoy it.
The Struggle Trilogy
The initial short intro is free: The Struggle
Hope you enjoy it.
More books set in Iraq:
The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi
The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity: An Illustrated 10th Century Iraqi Ecological Fable by Ikhwan al-Safa
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayy R Al-Warr Q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook by Nawal Nasrallah
Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery by Maggie Anton 
Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Ave Maria by Sinan Antoon
The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq by Juan R.I. Cole
Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend
Baghdad Central by Elliott Colla
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt
Basrayatha: The Story of a City by Muhammad Khudayyir
Beyond Love by Hadiyya Hussein
The Bones of the Old Ones by Howard Andrew Jones
The Book of Misers: Al-Bukhalaa by Al-Jahiz (AKA Avarice & The Avaricious)
Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers by Shashi Tharoor
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
The Caliph's Sister: Harun Al-Rashid and the Fall of the Persians by جرجي زيدان
Chasing Eden by Sharon Linnea (1st Eden Thriller)
Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams
The Chosen One by Anna Erishkigal
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance 
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology by Shakir Mustafa
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq by Chris Coppola
Dates on My Fingers by Muhsin Al-Ramli
More books set in Iraq:
The Caliph's Heirs: Brothers at War: The Fall of Baghdad by جرجي زيدان
Dawn and Dusk by Alice Mead
Dear Blue Sky by Mary Sullivan
Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine 
The Descent of Inanna by Ed VanDerJagt
The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones (1st book in series)
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea by Dunya Mikhail
The Dove Flyer by Eli Amir
East Winds, West Winds by Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain
Escape from Baghdad: One Woman's True Story by Farah Molai
Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes by Fakhruddin Iraqi
The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad by Naim Kattan
The Father Of Locks by Andrew Killeen
Fifteen Iraqi Poets by Dunya Mikhail
The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth
A Fistful of Dust by Nasser Hashmi
A Fistful of Pearls and Other Tales from Iraq by Elizabeth Laird
The Flag of Childhood: Poems From the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Flying Carpet to Baghdad: One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War 
Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little (qst book in Forbidden series)
Frankenstein in Baghdad by أحمد سعداوي
Freya Stark in Iraq & Kuwait by Freya Stark
The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan
The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf
The Gift of Valor: A War Story by Michael M. Phillips
God in Pink by Hasan Namir
The Golden Bull by Marjorie Cowley
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Grand Mirage by Darrell Delamaide
More books set in Iraq:
Farewell to Dejla: Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile by Tova Murad Sadka
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by Ismaiel Aldean
Hassan by James Elroy Flecker
The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia
I Am The One Who Saw by Mahmoud Saeed
I Was Saddam's Son by Latif Yahia (AKA The Devil's Double)
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone 
Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer by Kim Echlin
Into the Storm: On the Ground in Iraq by Tom Clancy
Iraq: People of Promise, Land of Despair by Andrew White
Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle by Slavoj Žižek
Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
Iraqi Jews: A History of Mass Exodus by Abbas Shiblak
The Iraqi Nights by Dunya Mikhail
Iraqi Poetry Today by Saadi Simawe
Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Al-Ali
Ishtar's Songs: Iraqi Poetry Since the 1970s by Soheil Najm
The Jews of Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture by Nissm Rejwan
Joel of the Hanging Gardens by I.G. Edmonds
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird
A Tapestry of Contemporary Iraqi Poetry: English Translation by Inaam Al-Hashimi
More books set in Iraq:
The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland by Nissim Rejwan
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner
Love In A Torn Land by Jean Sasson
Love, Death, and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati
The Loved Ones: A Modern Arabic Novel by Alia Mamdouh
Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War: An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq 
The Man in Blue Pyjamas: Prison Memoir in the Form of a Novel by Jalal Barzanji
The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis
Marshlands by Matthew Olshan
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City by Gwendolyn Leick
My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan by Hiner Saleem
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced 
Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad by Alia Mamdouh
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War 
The Nightingale of Mosul: A Nurse's Journey of Service, Struggle, and War 
The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes by Rashid Razaq
No Safe Place by Deborah Ellis
Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times by Hugo Loetscher
Nostalgia, My Enemy by Saadi Youssef
More books set in Iraq:
The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro
On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by Richard Jadick
On the Road to Baghdad by Güneli Gün
Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq by Mike Tucker
The Orange Trees of Baghdad by Leilah Nadir
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić
Outcast by Shimon Ballas
More books set in Iraq:
Patrol by Philip MacDonald
The People Smuggler: : The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi by Robin De Crespigny
Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia by Anonymous
Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories by جبرا إبراهيم جبرا
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
Rain Over Baghdad by Hala El Badry
Redeployment by Phil Klay
A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq 
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition by Kanan Makiya
Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Young
Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Sergeant Camilo Mejia 
Ruff's War: A Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq by Cheryl Lynn Ruff
Sarah by Marek Halter
Sargon: A Tale of Old Iraq by Richard Sewell
Selections from the Art of Party Crashing in Medieval Iraq 
Seventh Sanctuary by Jennifer Malin
Sharrukin (The True King): The Epig Saga of King Sargon The Great 
Scheherazade: A Tale by Anthony O'Neill
Slaves of the Shinar by Justin Allen
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer
The Tales of Abu Nuwas by Marva Dasef
More books set in Iraq:
Tales of Goha by Leslie Caplan
Talking About Jane Austen In Baghdad by May Witwit
Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey
Thieves of Baghdad by Matthew Bogdanos
Thirst: A Novel of the Iran-Iraq War by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
A Thousand Veils by D.J. Murphy
Till We Say Goodbye by Nahum Sivan
Trying Again to Stop Time by Jalal Barzanji
Two Days of a Dream by Kathryn Gilmore
Two Lost Souls by Mahmoud Saeed
Understanding Iraq by William R. Polk
Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
The Village Indian by Abbas Khider
Voices of the Desert: A novel by Nélida Piñon
The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
The Wayward Moon by Janice Weizman
The Weight Of A Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad by Mona Yahia
The White Zone by Carolyn Marsden
Why Do You Kill?: The Untold Story of the Iraqi Resistance by Jürgen Todenhöfer
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef
The Woman of the Flask by Salim Matar
The World Through the Eyes of Angels by Mahmoud Saeed
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Zubaida's Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile by Iqbal Al-Qazwini
Hi!As many of you might know, I am an Iraqi author writing in English. I have written in the past two novels set in Baghdad.
The Gardener of Baghdad
Baghdad: The Final Gathering
Last week, I released a novella The Boy of the Mosque set in a fictional village in Iraq. It is available now in all formats (eBook and Paperback)
Synopsis
In the Year 1258, Baghdad, the capital of the great Abbasid Caliphate, fell to the Moguls. Within hours, the city of enlightenment was swallowed up by darkness, another society becoming a victim of hatred and greed. The mighty Tigris flowed with blue and red, the blood of its people and the ink from the age-old scrolls of knowledge, all heartlessly washed away. In spite of the turmoil and chaos, twelve families managed to flee. Far away they wandered, leaving behind their beautiful homeland that had been reduced to death and rubble. Together, that remnant from Baghdad established a new community, one that lived in peace and harmony for centuries. Centuries later, in 2017, mercenaries and militias took over that charming village, threatening to destroy the happy existence the people had worked so hard to rebuild. What will be the fate of those innocent people and their heritage? That hangs in the balance as all must rely on one man, The Boy of the Mosque.
Kindle
Amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079TQCX49/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079TQCX49/
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B079TQCX49/
Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B079TQCX49/
Paperback
Amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984982680/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1984982680/
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1984982680/
Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1984982680/
Ahmad Ardalan Author Page: http://www.ahmadardalan.net/
Follow me on Bookbub https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ahmad...
Ahmad Ardalan
Ahmad, thank you for letting us know about your novels. I am trying to read books by native authors, so I appreciate the opportunity to read yours in English.
Laurie wrote: "Ahmad, thank you for letting us know about your novels. I am trying to read books by native authors, so I appreciate the opportunity to read yours in English."Hi Laurie,
I would love to hear your feedback after you have read any of them.
Ahmad
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