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Iran Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 620 times as iran)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,618 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 599 times as iran)
avg rating 4.41 — 211,618 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 574 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 236,694 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,163 ratings — published 1937
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as iran)
avg rating 4.47 — 235,610 ratings — published 2024
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 136,375 ratings — published 2019
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,737 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 245 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,353 ratings — published 2001
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,632 ratings — published 2024
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
by (shelved 214 times as iran)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,715 ratings — published 2003
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as iran)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,670 ratings — published 1973
Disoriental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 177 times as iran)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,877 ratings — published 2016
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,789 ratings — published 1982
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as iran)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,991 ratings — published 2007
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as iran)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,189 ratings — published 2017
داییجان ناپلئون (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,665 ratings — published 1973
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as iran)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,820 ratings — published 2006
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,761 ratings — published 2003
The Septembers of Shiraz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as iran)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,587 ratings — published 2007
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,630 ratings — published 2018
Rooftops of Tehran (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as iran)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,719 ratings — published 2009
Het huis van de moskee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as iran)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,186 ratings — published 2005
Chicken with Plums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as iran)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,743 ratings — published 2004
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as iran)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,170 ratings — published 2008
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as iran)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,216 ratings — published 2008
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as iran)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,331 ratings — published 2013
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as iran)
avg rating 4.23 — 897 ratings — published 2017
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as iran)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,757 ratings — published 2005
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as iran)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,796 ratings — published 1010
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iran)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,720 ratings — published 2008
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as iran)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,389 ratings — published 2014
Things I've Been Silent About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as iran)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,070 ratings — published 2008
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,397 ratings — published 1120
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as iran)
avg rating 4.10 — 712 ratings — published 1985
Suvashun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as iran)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,177 ratings — published 1969
Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as iran)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,046 ratings — published 2008
Prisoner of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as iran)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,851 ratings — published 2007
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as iran)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,947 ratings — published 1987
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 — 6,404 ratings — published 2020
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as iran)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,901 ratings — published 2013
Song of a Captive Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as iran)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,355 ratings — published 2018
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as iran)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,399 ratings — published 2025
The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as iran)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,823 ratings — published 2016
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as iran)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,956 ratings — published 2009
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as iran)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,017 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 — 1,940 ratings — published 1992
Woman, Life, Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,181 ratings — published 2023
Everything Sad Is Untrue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.30 — 45,175 ratings — published 2020
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iran)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,218 ratings — published 2006
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iran)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,111 ratings — published 2012
“I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .”
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“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
