CITY · IRANBooks set in Tehran
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16 books · 14 authors · 1973–2025
16 books here
Most-set authors
Shahriar Mandanipour (2) · Shahrnush Parsipur (2) · Négar Djavadi (1) · Tom Clancy (1) · Iraj Pezeshkzad (1) · Marjane Satrapi (1)
Genres
literary fiction (5) · thriller & suspense (2) · romance (1) · fantasy (1)
Books set here
Set in Tehran (13)
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Shahriar Mandanipour
Tehran — forbidden love and censorship
Moon Brow
Shahriar Mandanipour
Tehran mansion and war frontlines
My Uncle Napoleon
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Tehran family compound 1940s
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Tehran during Islamic Revolution
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi
Secret Tehran book club
Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Islamic Revolution 1979, Kapuscinski witnesses Khomeini's triumph
The Book of Fate
Parinoush Saniee
Tehran across five decades of modern Iran
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali
Three decades of Tehran: Ellie and Homa's friendship from 1950s through political upheaval; Grand Bazaar
The Persian
David McCloskey
Kam`s spy cover in Iran
The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
pre-revolution Iran
The Slow Road to Tehran
Rebecca Lowe
Final destination of Lowe's 11,000km solo bicycle journey
Touba and the Meaning of Night
Shahrnush Parsipur
Primary setting — Iran across 80 years to the 1979 revolution
Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur
Tehran 1953; five women escape patriarchal society during the CIA-backed coup and unite in a garden in Karaj
Also featuring Tehran (3)
Notable locations in Tehran
Niavaran, Tehran1