Read-alikes and related books

Books like Persepolis

If you loved Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Arab & Middle Eastern, Iran, Biography & Memoir, and Nonfiction.

Arab & Middle Eastern Iran Biography & Memoir Nonfiction Emigration & Immigration Literary Figures Middle East Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Wars & Conflicts Women Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Social Science Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Persepolis

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Persepolis.

The Complete Persepolis 20th Anniversary Edition

Marjane Satrapi

Themes: Iran • Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction

What is Home, Mum?

Sabba Khan

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction

Worm A Cuban American Odyssey

Edel Rodriguez

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Emigration & Immigration

Escaping Wars and Waves Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Emigration & Immigration

Drawn to Berlin Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe

Ali Fitzgerald

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Emigration & Immigration

The Times I Knew I Was Gay A Graphic Memoir ‘for Everyone. Candid, Authentic and Utterly Charming’ Sarah Waters

Eleanor Crewes

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Literary Figures

Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers

Lawrence Matsuda

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Do Admit Making Sense of the Mitford Sisters

Mimi Pond

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Literary Figures

Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#10

Golda

Elinor Burkett

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle East • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#11

March

John Lewis

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#12

Fame Adele

Michael Troy

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#13

Albert Houtum Schindler A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran

D. T. Potts

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Iran • Middle East

#14

Fun Home A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Literary Figures

#15

The Heart That Fed A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War

Carl Sciacchitano

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Wars & Conflicts

#16

From Harvey River A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

Lorna Goodison

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

Feeding Ghosts A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#18

The Talk

Darrin Bell

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#19

Long Shot My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

Azad Cudi

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle East • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#20

Saladin The Triumph of the Sunni Revival

A. R. Azzam

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle East • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#21

A Stranger in Your Own City Travels in the Middle East’s Long War

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle East • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#22

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

Jonathan Phillips

Themes: Arab & Middle Eastern • Middle East • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#23

This Country Searching for Home in (very) Rural America

Navied Mahdavian

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#24

Diary of a Tokyo Teen A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes

Christine Mari Inzer

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Arab & Middle Eastern, Iran, Biography & Memoir — the same threads that run through Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Among the authors featured: Marjane Satrapi, Sabba Khan, Edel Rodriguez, Olivier Kugler, and others.