Top recommended books about Iran
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating — 224,955 ratings 
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A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs: The True Story of a Teenager Who Stood Up to the Mullahs' Regime in Iran
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Summer Harman
4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings 13. 
Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
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Roger Housden
3.81 avg rating — 150 ratings 
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
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Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 
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Sohrab Sepehri: A selection of poems from The Eight Books
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Sohrab Sepehri
4.64 avg rating — 81 ratings 21. 
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
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Ashley Dartnell
4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings 23. 
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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Roya Hakakian
3.77 avg rating — 1,205 ratings 
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Two Wings of a Nightingale: Persian Soul, Islamic Heart
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Jill Worrall
3.30 avg rating — 71 ratings 26. 
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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Stephen Kinzer
4.29 avg rating — 10,843 ratings 27. 
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 4.13 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
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Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran
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Cyrus Massoudi
3.62 avg rating — 87 ratings 33. 
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The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
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David Crist
4.16 avg rating — 1,050 ratings 35. 
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Who Rules Iran?: The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic
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Wilfried Buchta
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 37. 
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran
by:
Roy Mottahedeh
4.09 avg rating — 653 ratings 38. 
The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
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James A. Bill
3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings 39. 
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
by:
Barbara Slavin
4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings 40. 
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
by:
Laura Secor
4.14 avg rating — 371 ratings 44. 
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Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
by:
Kevan Harris
3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran 4.15 avg rating — 841 ratings
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The Reign of the Ayatollahs : Iran and the Islamic Revolution
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Shaul Bakhash
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by:
Firoozeh Dumas
3.84 avg rating — 27,114 ratings 