Reading Lolita in Tehran  

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor, Azar Nafisi.

Published in 2003, it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into thirty-two languages.

Cited Books

In the endpapers is a list of books that are discussed throughout the book. They are, in alphabetical order by author's last name:

• 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