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Iran Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 610 times as iran)
avg rating 3.66 — 141,663 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 208,946 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 569 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 234,098 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 35,532 ratings — published 1937
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 130,800 ratings — published 2019
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as iran)
avg rating 4.48 — 206,234 ratings — published 2024
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,218 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 244 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 79,718 ratings — published 2001
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as iran)
avg rating 4.15 — 185,008 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 210 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,256 ratings — published 2003
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,758 ratings — published 2016
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as iran)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,034 ratings — published 1973
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,543 ratings — published 1982
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,875 ratings — published 2007
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,781 ratings — published 2006
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,106 ratings — published 2017
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,528 ratings — published 1973
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,531 ratings — published 2007
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,605 ratings — published 2003
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,359 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,561 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,909 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as iran)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,528 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,100 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,207 ratings — published 2008
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 845 ratings — published 2017
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as iran)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,282 ratings — published 2013
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,679 ratings — published 2008
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,748 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as iran)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,740 ratings — published 1010
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,035 ratings — published 2008
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,311 ratings — published 2014
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,260 ratings — published 1120
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as iran)
avg rating 4.09 — 695 ratings — published 1985
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,086 ratings — published 1969
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 14,726 ratings — published 2007
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,037 ratings — published 2008
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,134 ratings — published 2020
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as iran)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,572 ratings — published 1987
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,853 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,277 ratings — published 2018
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,950 ratings — published 2009
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as iran)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,226 ratings — published 2025
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,997 ratings — published 2016
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,931 ratings — published 1992
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 44,289 ratings — published 2020
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as iran)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,974 ratings — published 2023
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,171 ratings — published 2006
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,339 ratings — published 1177
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,090 ratings — published 2012
“ “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”
― Fatal Identity
― Fatal Identity
“A message was sent by the regime to the faithful: to survive they would have to be loyal to only one interpretation of the faith, and to accept the new political role of the clergy. Father felt that this spelled the end of Islam in our country, and he did have a point. 'No foreign power,' he said, 'could destroy Islam the way these people have.”
― Things I've Been Silent About
― Things I've Been Silent About












