Recs if you like Prisoner of Tehran...

read up on iranian literature. fuck war. fuck theocracies. fuck U.S and israeli intervention.

Just a list of books I've read from around the world, hoping others will find it useful.

Fifty more books from the second ten years of Canada Reads, an annual "Battle of the Books" run by the CBC (Canada's national broadcaster). Each year five Canadian celebrities step in to champion one Canadian book in a series of televised debates/discussions to see which book will come out on top.

Books about real autocracies and how affect people's life. Most of them are memories, but the list is open for other books as well, as long as they are non-fiction.

Books about oppressed women, both fiction and non-fiction.