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Suggested Reading from "Reading Lolita In Tehran" by Azar Nafisi

At the end of "Reading Lolita In Tehran" by Azar Nafisi, the author includes a list of books for suggested reading, several of which are detailed in her own book. This list includes all of the books that Nafisi suggested.
1. Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
by Nuha Al-Radi
  
2. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
3. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
5. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
6. The Dean's December (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
7. More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
8. Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
by Emily Bronte
  
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
10.
?
 Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
  
11. Shamela
by Henry Fielding
  
12. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
13. Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
14. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
  
15. The Ambassadors
by Henry James
  
16. Daisy Miller
by Henry James
  
17. Washington Square
by Henry James
  
18.
?
 In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
  
19. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
20.
?
 Address Unknown
by Kressman Taylor
  
21. The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
22. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
23. Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
24. Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
25. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
  
26. My Uncle Napoleon: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Iraj Pezeshkzad
  
27. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
by Diane Ravitch
  
28. The Net of Dreams: A Family's Search for a Rightful Place
by Julie Salamon
  
29. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
  
30. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
31. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
32. The Emigrants
by W.G. Sebald
  
33. Stone Diaries, The (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition)
by Carol Shields
  
34. The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Skvorecky
  
35. Loitering with Intent
by Muriel Spark
  
36. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
by Muriel Spark
  
37. Confessions of Zeno
by Italo Svevo
  
38. A Summons to Memphis
by Peter Taylor
  
39. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
40. Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
  
41. Saint Maybe
by Anne Tyler
  
42. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa
  
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Created by Gina on Jul 16, 2006.