One Book - One Lincoln - 2005: Further Reading...

If You Liked The Kite Runner, You Might Like:

The following books, both fiction and non-fiction, are recommended titles you may wish to pursue if you enjoyed The Kite Runner, and are interested in learning more about Afghan culture and society or the theme of friendship, betrayal and redemption. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

Adult Fiction

• Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar
• Horses of Heaven by Gillian Bradshaw [1991]
• Lie Down With Lions by Ken Follett [1986]
• Legacy of Love by Caroline Harvey [2000]
• Kabul: A Novel by M.E. Hirsh [1986]
• The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye [1978]
• The Swallows of Kabul: A Novel by Yasmina Khadra [2002]
• Anthology of Islamic Literature compiled by James Kritzeck [1987]
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [2003]
• Caravans by James Michener [1963]
• Foreigner by Nahid Rachlin [<1999]
• Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi [2002]
• The Siege of Isfahan by Jean-Christophe Rufin [1998]
• Winter in Kandahar by Steven E. Wilson [2003]

• The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman [2004]
• The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher [2002]
• Kabul by M.E. Hersh [1986]
• The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra [2002]

• Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber [2003]
• The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal [1997]
• The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III [1999]
• In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz [2002]
• Heaven's Edge by Romesh Gunesekara [2003]
• The Blood Latitudes by William Harrison [2000]
• Just Like a River by Muhammed Kamil al-Kahtib [2002]
• A Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi [2001]
• The Last Life by Claire Messud [1999]
• The Depths of the Sea by Jamie Metzl [2004]
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje [2000]
• Homecoming by Natasha Radojcic-Kane [2002]
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [1997]
• Kartography by Kamila Shamsie [2003]
• Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanna al-Shaykh [1988]

• Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya [2002] [958.1 Zoy]
• The Silenced Cry: One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan by Ann Tortajada [2004] [on order]
• Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Batya Swift Yasgur [2002]
• Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan by Sally Armstrong [2003]
• With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan by Anne E. Brodsky [2003]
• Repression, Resistance and Women in Afghanistan by Hafizullah Emadi [2002] [e-book format only]
• Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future by Sunita Mehta [2002]
• Bint Arab: Arab and Arab-American Women in the United States by Evelyn Shakir [1997] [305.8 AraYs]
• My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban by Latifa [2001] [958.1 Lat]
• Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out by Maryam Qudrat Aseel [2003]

• Afghan Stories by [Vanguard Cinema] [2002] [DVD 958.1 Afg]
• The Lion's Grave: Dispatches From Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson [2002] [958.1 And]
• West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary [2002] [958.1 Ans]
• To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America by Tara Bahrampour [1999] [955.054 Bah]
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas [2004] [B D8873]
• An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot [1999] [915.81 Ell]
• The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes by Christopher Kremmer [2002] [915.6 Kre]
• The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb [2002]
• The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan by Peter Levi [1972] [915.81 Lev]
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi [2003] [955.054 Naf]
• To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue by Ted Nall [2002] [741.5 Nal]
• Afghanistan Revealed by National Geographic Society [2001] [Video 958.1 Nat]
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad [2002] [958.1 Sei]
• The Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah [2003] [958.1 Sha]
• A Kite Journey Through India by Tal Streeter [1996]
• An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World by William T. Vollmann [1992]
• Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terrance Ward [2002]

• Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan by Ludwig W. Adamec [1997] [958.1 Ada]
• The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi [2005] [B Ah4]]
• Daughters of Afghanistan by Sally Armstrong [2004] [DVD 958.104 Arm]
• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll [2004] [958.1 Col]
• Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics by Martin Ewans [2002]
• Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson [2001] [958.1 Goo]
• The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by Lester W. Grau [2002]
• Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin [2001] [958.1 Gri]
• 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East by David W. Lesch [2001]
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre [2004] [B H221m]
• Retreat From Kabul: The Incredible Story of How a Savage Afghan Force Massacred the World's Most Powerful Army by Patrick MacRory [2002] [958.1 Mac]
• Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry by Sayd Bahodine Majruh [2003]
• The Taliban Phenomenon: 1994-1997 by Kamal Matinuddin [1999]
• The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger by Robin Moore [2003] [953.8 Moo]
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid [2000] [958.1 Ras]
• Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil by [Reuters Journalists] [2002]
• The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan by Jeffrey J. Roberts [2003]
• The Essential Rumi by Jalai ed-Din Rumi [1997 edition] [891.55 Jal 1997]
• The Secret Rose Garden by Mahmud Shabistari [2002]
• Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban by Stephen Tanner [2003] [e-book format only]
• Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver [2002]

• The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park [2000] [j Park]
• The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis [2000] [j Ellis]
• Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis [2002] [j ellis&idx=au">Mud City by Deborah Ellis [2003] [j Ellis]
• Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird [1991] [j Laird]
• Refugees by Catherine Stine [2005] [j Stine]

• Afghanistan by Miriam Greenblatt [2003] [j 915.81 Gre]
• Afghanistan by Halima Kazem [2003] [j 915.81 Kaz]
• Afghanistan in Pictures by Lerner Publications [2003] [j 915.81 Ler 2003]
• Afghanistan by Stephen Otfinofski [2004] [j 958.1 Otf]
• Life Under the Taliban by Gail Stewart [2005] [j 958.104 Ste]