Iran

[Dream]

F.M. Esfandiary's Identity Card is touted by some reviews as a satire, though I'm told by someone I know from Iran that this is actually not a far exaggeration from the truth of what happens there.

[Carol]

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

[Jenny]

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

[Ronan Noane]

My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran
by Kader Abdolah

The writer moved to the Netherlands and wrote this book in Dutch. Lovely and catching story.

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This book isn't set in Iran but it is about an Iranian family that moved to America. The memoir is not only a good read about adapting but it is a funny read worth while.
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by فیروزه جزایری دوما / Firoozeh Jazayeri Dumas

[ilona]

Caspian Rain and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai as well as Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

[Daisy]

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

[Arden]

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran I have never read a book that described so well what it feels like to be an immigrant and feel like an outsider in two worlds. The author came to California when she was a child and returned to Iran in the 90's as a journalist for Time magazine. I have been meaning to read her next memoir Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran too.

[Ana]

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot

[Trupti]

Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (memoir)

[Agata]

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

[Daisy]

I second Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith

[Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship]

I second The Blood of Flowers especially, and also The Septembers of Shiraz.

[Daren]

Anna wrote: "Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot"

I think Jason Elliot is excellent. Liked this book, but liked An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan even more. Sorry, wrong thread, I know.