CITY · IRAQBooks set in Baghdad
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11 books · 8 authors · 2004–2025
11 books here
Most-set authors
Sinan Antoon (3) · Hassan Blasim (2) · Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (1) · Nussaibah Younis (1) · Mahmoud Saeed (1) · Shahad Al Rawi (1)
Genres
literary fiction (6) · science fiction (1) · horror (1)
Books set here
Set in Baghdad (11)
A Stranger in Your Own City
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Baghdad from 2003 onward; Abdul-Ahad chronicles how his native city became foreign through war and sectarianism
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
UN Green Zone base for deradicalisation work
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
Sinan Antoon
Baghdad prison under Saddam Hussein — Ba athi era Iraq-Iran War
Iraq +100
Hassan Blasim
primary Iraqi city setting
Saddam City
Mahmoud Saeed
Saddam-era prison city
The Baghdad Clock
Shahad Al Rawi
Baghdad neighborhood 1991–2000s
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon
Baghdad during and after US invasion; catalogue of objects destroyed by war
The Corpse Exhibition
Hassan Blasim
Baghdad wartime streets and neighborhoods
The Corpse Washer
Sinan Antoon
Post-invasion Baghdad where Jawad washes the dead of sectarian violence
The Rope
Kanan Makiya
Post-invasion Iraq 2003-2006; Shiite militiaman from the fall of Saddam to his hanging
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
Bataween district post-invasion Baghdad
Notable locations in Baghdad
Al-Mutanabbi Street1Bataween1
