Recommended Resources

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History

• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
  Stephen Kinzer
  955.053 KI
• The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah--1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam
  David Harris
  327.7305509 HA
• The Fall of the Shah
  Fereydoun Hoveyda
  955.053 HO
• A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
  Michael Axworthy
  955 AX
• A History of the Modern Middle East
  William L. Cleveland
  956 CL
• The Imperial Shah: An Informal Biography
  Gerard de Villiers
  955.050924 M7258V
• In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade
  Robin Wright
  955.054 WR
• Inside the Iranian Revolution
  John D. Stempel
  955.053 ST
• Interlock: The Untold Story of American Banks, Oil Interests, the Shah's Money, Debts and the Astounding Connections between Them
  Mark Hulbert
  332.150955 HU
• Iran: A People Interrupted
  Hamid Dabashi
  955.05 DA
• Iran under the Pahlavis
  George Lenczowski, editor
  955.05 IR
• The Life and Times of the Shah
  Gholam R. Afkhami
  955.053092 AF
• Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution
  Nikki R. Keddie
  955.05 KE
• The Mossadegh Era: Roots of the Iranian Revolution
  Sepehr Zabih
  955.053 ZA
• The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution
  Shaul Bakhash
  955.054 BA
• Revolution in Iran: The Politics of Countermobilization
  Jerrold D. Green
  955.053 GR
• The Rise and Fall of the Shah
  Amin Saikal
  955.053 SA
• Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran
  Nikki R. Keddie
  955.05 KE
• The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally
  William Shawcross
  955.050924 M7258S
• The Spirit of Allah: Kohmeini and the Islamic Revolution
  Amir Taheri
  955.0540924 K5286T
• The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
  Charles Kurzman
  955.0542 KU

Memoirs

• Answer To History
  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
  955.0530924 M7258M
• Camelia, Save Yourself by Telling the Truth: A Memoir of Iran
  Camelia Entekhabifard
  070.92 E6112E
• Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution
  Sattareh Farman-Farmaian
  955.05092 F2295F
• An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
  Farah, Consort of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
  955.053 F2195F
• Even after All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
  Afschineh Latifi
  955.0542092 L356L
• Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora
  Zohreh T. Sullivan
  973.04915
• From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
  Ehsan Naraghi
  955.053092 N164N
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
  Firoozeh Dumas
  979.4900491 D8864D
• Guest of the Revolution
  Kathryn Koob
  955.054 K8376K
• Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
  Shirin Ebadi
  323.34092 I121I
• Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught In Revolutionary Iran
  Roya Hakkakiyan
  955.053092 H155H
• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
  Azadeh Moaveni
  305.4889155 M6873M
• My Name Is Iran: A Memoir
  Davar Ardalan
  973.049155 AR
• My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices
  Lila Azam Zanganeh
  305.4889155 MY
• My Turn To Speak: Iran, the Revolution & Secret Deals with the U.S.
  Abu al-Hasan Bani Sadr
  955.054 BA
• Persian Girls: A Memoir
  Nahid Rachlin
  813.54 R119R
• Persepolis
  Marjane Satrapi
  GN Per
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
  Azar Nafisi
  820.9 NA
• Saffron Sky: A Life between Iran and America
  Gelareh Asayesh
  973.049155 AS
• Tell the American People: Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution
  David H. Albert, Editor
  955.054 TE
• Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
  Azar Nafisi
  955.0542092 N146N

Religion

• Female Warriors of Allah: Women and the Islamic Revolution
  Minou Reeves
  305.420955 RE
• Hasidic Thought
  Louis Jacobs
  296.833 JA
• Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family
  Lis Harris
  305.8924073 HA
• Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini
  Ruhollah Khomeini
  297.1978 KH
• Islamism: A Documentary and Reference Guide
  John Calvert
  320.557 CA
• Religion and Politics in Iran: Shism from Quietism to Revolution
  Nikki R. Keddie, Editor
  297.820955 RE

Fiction & Literature

• Digging to America
  Anne Tyler
  FIC Tyl
• House of Sand and Fog
  Andre Dubus III
  FIC Dub
• Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora
  Persis M. Karim
  810.809287 LE
• My Uncle Napoleon
  Iraj Pezeshkzad
  FIC Pez
• The Quince Seed Potion
  Morteza Baharloo
  FIC BAH
• Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
  Nahid Mozaffari
  891.5508003 ST

Film

• Do zan = Two Women
  DVD 791.43 DU
• Googoosh: Iran's Daughter
  DVD 791.0955092 G658G
• House of Sand and Fog
  DVD 791.43 HO
• Maryam
  DVD 791.43 MA
• Offside
  DVD 791.43 OF
• Persepolis
  DVD 791.43 PE
• The Suitors
  DVD 791.43 SU

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Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
2008: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
2007: Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
2006: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

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