Author Readalikes: Khaled Hosseini

If You Like Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner …

Try other fiction about modern life in other cultures

• Yasmina Khadra -- The Swallows of Kabul
• Ulfat Idlibi -- Grandfather’s Tale
• Dai Sijie -- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Edwidge Danticat -- The Dew Breaker
• C.J. Koch -- The Year of Living Dangerously
• Terrence Cheng -- Sons of Heaven
• V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
• Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
• Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
• Ruya Hakkakiyan -- Journey from the Land of No
• Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
• Bhatul Khudayri -- A Sky So Close
• Tamim Ansary -- West of Kabul, East of New York (nonfiction)
• Monica Ali -- Brick Lane
• Naguib Mahfouz -- Palace Walk
• Kurban Said -- Ali and Nino
• Naomi Shihab Nye -- Habibi (Young Adult)
• David Davidar -- The House of Blue Mangoes
• Masha Hamilton -- Staircase of a Thousand Steps
• Laila Halaby -- West of the Jordan
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Sister of my Heart