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 409 '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
389 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 Iranian French
595 The Blind Owl Ṣādiq Hidāyat 1937 Iranian Persian
1032 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald 1859 British English
1449 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
1697 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
1751 Alamut Vladimir Bartol 1938 Slovenian Slovene
1980 Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski 1982 Polish Polish
2495 The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot India, Iran 1300 Indian Persian
2559 The Way Of The World Nicolas Bouvier 1963 French French
2909 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
3235 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
3263 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
4103 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
4152 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuscinski 1978 Polish Polish
4271 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
4553 Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas 2003 Iranian English
4622 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
4717 In Xanadu William Dalrymple 1989 British English
5361 A Persian Requiem Simin Daneshvar 1969 Iranian Persian
5548 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
6916 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1987 American English
6941 Samarkand Amin Maalouf 1988 Lebanese French
7080 1979 Christian Kracht 2001 German German
7079 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
7622 If You Could Be Mine Sara Farizan 2013 Iranian English
8263 Daughter Of Persia Sattareh Farman-Farmaian 1992 Iranian English
8263 Veils Nahid Rachlin 1992 Iranian English
8391 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan James Morier 1824 British English
8551 Darius The Great Is Not Okay Adib Khorram 2018 Iranian-American English
8915 All Fall Down Gary Sick 1985 American English
9324 The Boat Nam Le 2008 Australian English
10740 The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger 2018 American English
11108 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
11272 Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean 1949 British English
11434 The Valleys of the Assassins Freya Stark 1934 British English
11627 Avesta Zoroastrian scripture -1200 Iranian Avestan
11714 Canon of Medicine Avicenna 1025 Persian Arabic
11627 Gulistan Saadi 1258 Gulistan Persian
11627 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
12602 The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar 2017 Iranian Persian
12602 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
12602 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English