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Books set in Iran:
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
The Blind Owl by صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat
Things I've Been Silent about by Azar Nafisi
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
Essential Rumi by Rumi
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
Savushun: A Novel About Modern Iran by Simin Daneshvar
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran 
My Uncle Napoleon: A Novel by ایرج پزشکزاد
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir by Azadeh Moaveni
Layla and Majnun by نظامی گنجوی
My Name Is Iran by Davar Ardalan
HAJJ: Reflection on Its Rituals by علی شریعتي
Symphony of the Dead by عباس معروفی
The Prince by هوشنگ گلشیری
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
Persian Girls: A Memoir by Nahid Rachlin
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran by Christopher De Bellaigue
The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom by Afshin Molavi
Two Wings of a Nightingale: Persian Soul, Islamic Heart by Jill Worrall
Caspian Rain by Gina Nahai
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran by Fatemeh Keshavarz
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran by Elaine Sciolino
Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey by Sattareh Farman Farmaian
The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
We Are Iran by Nasrin Alavi
The Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai
To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America by Tara Bahrampour
The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival 
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran by Roxana Saberi
Whirlwind by James Clavell
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
Broken Silence: A true story of a sixteen year old's captivity by Kathy A. Taheri
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur
Cry Of The Peacock by Gina Nahai
The Hidden Face of Iran by Terence Ward
My Sister Guard Your Veil My Brother Guard Your Eyes by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey by Christiane Bird
The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
In the Walled Gardens: A Novel by Anahita Firouz
In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran by Nastaran Kherad
The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood by Shusha Guppy
My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir by Zarah Ghahramani
The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark
The Persian Bride by James Buchan
Hadassah: One Night With the King by Tommy Tenney
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
Identity Card by F. M. Esfandiary
My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah
Foreigner by Nahid Rachlin
The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther by Rebecca Kohn
Eskandar: Roman by Siba Shakib
The Root of Wild Madder by Brian Murphy
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
The Divan of Hafez Pocket Edition by Hafiz
by Freidoune SahebjamI have two other books by Freidoune Sahebjam, but I can't find the titles in English.
More Books Set in Iran:
Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan by Christiane Bird
From a Persian Tea House: Travels in Old Iran by Michael Carroll
Camelia by Camelia Entekhabi-Fard
Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs 
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard by Nicholas Jubber
Jumping Over Fire by Nahid Rachlin
Touba and the Meaning of Night by Shahrnūsh Pārsīṕūr
The Tehran Conviction by Tom Gabbay
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
Finding Hoseyn by Colin MacKinnon
Much of the Christian espionage novel entitled Heart of Terror takes place in Iran and the surrounding region. If you would like to read an excerpt from the novel, go to the following link: http://christianespionagenovel.webs.com
Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident by Parvin Darabi
More books set in Iran:
'Attar: Selected Poetry by Farid ud-Din Attar
After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed by Marina Nemat
Against Gravity by Farnoosh Moshiri
The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader by Kasra Naji
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Alamut by Judith Tarr (1st book in Alamut series)
The Alamut Ambush by Anthony Price
America Held Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis And The Iran Contra Affair
Behind the Veil: An American Woman's Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan 
Anahita's Woven Riddle by Meghan Nuttall Sayres
Another Birth by Forough Farrokhzad
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Assassins of Alamut by James Boschert (1st book in Talon series)
The Assassins of Alamut by Anthony Campbell
At the Wall of the Almighty by Farnoosh Moshiri
The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge by Hooman Majd
Azarmidokht, the Last Queen of Persia by Naser Pour Aryan
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
Between A and Z by Mo H. Saidi
A Bitter Veil by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Black Parrot, Green Crow: A Collection of Short Fiction by Hushang Gulshiri
The Blue Flower of Forgetfulness by Cyrus Samii
The Book of Farid Al-Din 'Attar: Ruba'is, Ghazals & Masnavis by Farid ud-Din Attar
The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh Farman Farmaian
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