Readers

PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
BOSTON 2006

Readers' Maps:

Blending Fiction and Nonfiction Readers' Advisory
Through Reading Itineraries

 

To Iran...

 

 

 

 

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

(Pantheon, 2004)

 

 

 

Other Books Along the Way:

 

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran by Elaine Sciolino

 

The Persian Bride by James Buchanan

 

The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran by Robin W. Wright

 

All The Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

 

 

Where to go next?

 

Minaret by Leila Aboulela

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

The Armchair Traveler

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Nancy Pearl, Author/Speaker; Retired
Cathleen Towey, Library Development Specialist, Gold Coast Library
Neal Wyatt, Collection Management Senior Librarian, Chesterfield County Public Library