Given current events following the election in Iran, I thought it would be appropriate to create a fiction reading list for Iranian writers. Unfortunately, my knowledge of writers, classic or contemporary, outside of the Western canon is shockingly deficient. I have a handful of African and Asian writers: a Mishima novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and a few others. I have Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz on my bookshelf, but that would be Arabic, not Persian.
Given that, I did a search on Iranian fiction on Amazon.
Many of the books appear to be highly rated. If anyone knows of books that they would recommend, please comment. If I get enough comments from those more knowledgable than I, I will post an edited list rather than a link to Amazon.com search results.