The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Iran

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
604 The Blind Owl Ṣādiq Hidāyat 1937 Iranian Persian
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
736 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald 1859 British English
1091 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
1400 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
1930 The Way Of The World Nicolas Bouvier 1963 French French
2031 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2448 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
2556 Alamut Vladimir Bartol 1938 Slovenian Slovene
3101 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
3287 Savushun Simin Daneshvar 1969 Iranian Persian
3638 The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot India, Iran 1300 Indian Persian
3638 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
4408 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
4994 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
5445 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
5701 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5802 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 2024 American English
6405 In Xanadu William Dalrymple 1989 British English
6441 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6445 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuscinski 1978 Polish Polish
6598 Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski 1982 Polish Polish
6967 The Boat Nam Le 2008 Australian English
7562 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7998 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8026 Among The Believers V. S. Naipaul 1981 British English
8248 Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas 2003 Iranian English
9188 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9327 Embroideries Marjane Satrapi 2003 Iranian French
9656 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9798 No Friend But The Mountains Behrouz Boochani 2018 Unknown Persian
10060 Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
10571 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10606 King Of Kings Scott Anderson 2025 American English
10986 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1987 American English
11050 Darius The Great Is Not Okay Adib Khorram 2018 Iranian-American English
11055 Look Solmaz Sharif 2016 American English
11217 The Teacher Of Nomad Land Daniel Nayeri American English
11360 The Jasmine Of The Lovers Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī Persian Persian
11514 If You Could Be Mine Sara Farizan 2013 Iranian English
11532 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 All Fall Down Gary Sick 1985 American English
12131 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12439 Liquid Mariam Rahmani 2025 Unknown English
12832 Daughter Of Persia Sattareh Farman-Farmaian 1992 Iranian English
12832 Veils Nahid Rachlin 1992 Iranian English
13359 Gulistan Saadi 1258 Gulistan Persian
13359 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan James Morier 1824 British English
13761 Everything Sad Is Untrue Daniel Nayeri 2020 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
14169 The Valleys of the Assassins Freya Stark 1934 British English
14232 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
14428 1979 Christian Kracht 2001 German German
14720 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14787 Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean 1949 British English
14830 The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger 2018 American English
14983 The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar 2017 Iranian Persian
14983 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
15897 Avesta Zoroastrian scripture -1200 Iranian Avestan
15897 Canon of Medicine Avicenna 1025 Persian Arabic
15897 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15897 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
16575 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16634 Khosrow And Shirin Nezami Ganjavi 1180 Persian Persian
17117 Executive Orders Tom Clancy 1996 American English
17117 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17117 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17117 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17117 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17117 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17117 Only Sound Remains Hossein Asgari 2024 Unknown English
17117 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17117 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17117 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17117 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17117 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17117 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
17117 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
Cyclonopedia Reza Negarestani 2008 Unknown English
17094 Vis And Ramin Fakhraddin Gorgani 1048 Persian Persian
17117 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17117 Censoring An Iranian Love Story Shahriar Mandanipour 2009 Iranian Persian
17117 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
16765 دایی جان ناپلئون Iraj Pezeshkzad 1973 Iranian Persian
17117 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17117 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17117 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17117 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17117 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17117 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17117 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian
17117 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17117 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17117 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17117 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17117 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17117 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17117 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17117 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17117 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17117 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17117 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17117 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17117 The Neighbors Ahmad Mahmoud 1974 Unknown Persian
17117 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17117 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
16865 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17117 Funeral Games Mary Renault 1981 British English
17117 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17117 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17117 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17117 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17117 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17117 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
16904 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17117 Like Hidden Fire: The Plot To Bring Down The British Empire hopkirk 1994 Unknown English
17117 The Walking Drum Louis L'Amour 1984 American English