At the end of Reading Lolita in Tehran, there is a list (yea!) of suggested reading. As always, I read the italicized books.
Baghdad Diaries by
Nuha al-Radi
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Emma, Mansfield Park, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Dean's
December and More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll
Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
Shamela and Tom
Jones by Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Ambassadors,
Daisy Miller, and Washington Square
by Henry James
In the Penal
Colony and The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, and
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah
Orne Jewett
My Uncle Napoleon
by Iraj Pezeshkzad
The Language
Police by Diane Ravitch
The Net of Dreams
by Julie Salamon
Persepolis by
Marjane Satrapi
A Thousand and One
Nights by Scheherazade
The Emigrants by
W.G. Sebald
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
The Engineer of
Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
Loitering with
Intent and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Confessions of
Zeno by Italo Svevo
Address Unknown by
Katherine Kressman Taylor
A Summons to
Memphis by Peter Taylor
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Back When We Were
Grownups and St. Maybe by Anne Tyler
Aunt Julia and the
Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
