126 books
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Middle East Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1053 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,450,702 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 882 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,712,145 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 139,666 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 463 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 228,035 ratings — published 2003
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,701 ratings — published 1989
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 202,937 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 400,534 ratings — published 2012
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 33,281 ratings — published 2020
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,036 ratings — published 1989
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,946 ratings — published 2006
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 307 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 617,263 ratings — published 2012
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,744 ratings — published 2013
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,575 ratings — published 2005
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,150 ratings — published 1978
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,264 ratings — published 2003
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.51 — 51,572 ratings — published 2006
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,665 ratings — published 2020
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,422 ratings — published 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,484 ratings — published 2006
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,191 ratings — published 2006
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 56,628 ratings — published 2002
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 236 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,120 ratings — published 2016
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,607 ratings — published 1991
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,481 ratings — published 2009
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,633 ratings — published 2004
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 149,896 ratings — published 2017
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,113 ratings — published 2001
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,823 ratings — published 2019
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 198 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 12,335 ratings — published 2009
Salt Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 19,830 ratings — published 2017
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,089 ratings — published 1994
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,899 ratings — published 2011
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,265 ratings — published 2011
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,656 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 78,635 ratings — published 2001
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.20 — 628,487 ratings — published 1997
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.26 — 172,593 ratings — published 2019
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.28 — 20,987 ratings — published 2005
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.03 — 39,242 ratings — published 1993
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.03 — 80,888 ratings — published 800
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,926 ratings — published 2013
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,401 ratings — published 2018
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 325,499 ratings — published 1923
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,009 ratings — published 1926
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,810 ratings — published 1998
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,127 ratings — published 2009
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,012 ratings — published 2013
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,420 ratings — published 1983
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.71 — 22,924 ratings — published 2002
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.48 — 139,836 ratings — published 2024
“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Lost Identity
― Lost Identity
“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”
― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens












