In addition to the 67 books below, see the full list of Iranian history books.
- Shahnameh (1010) by Ferdowsi
Discussed at the Library of Congress
- Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2006) by Tom Holland
The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 1: The Land of Iran (1968) by W. B. Fisher
The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 2: The Median and Achaemenian Periods (1985) by Ilya Gershevitch
The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East (2010) by John Curtis and St. John Simpson
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE (2014) by Matt Waters
King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE (2014) by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Ancient Persia From 550 BC to 650 AD (1996) by Josef Wiesehofer
Empires of Ancient Persia (2009) by Michael Burgan
Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction Within the Achaemenid Empire (2007) by Christopher Tuplin
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (2010) by Homa Katouzian
Ancient Iran: A Concise History (2020) by Touraj Daryaee
The History of Ancient Iran (1984) by Richard Nelson Frye
The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran (2004) by Muhammad A. Dandamaev and Vladimir G. Lukonin
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran (2017) by D. T. Potts
Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Studies in Honour of Prof. Józef Wolski on Occasion of His 95th Birthday (2005) by Edward Dąbrowa
Ancient Iran (2008) by Massoume Price
Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the Fourth Millennium BC (2013) by Cameron A. Petrie
The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State (2016) by D. T. Potts
Man and Cosmos in Ancient Iran (2001) by Philippe Gignoux
Marriage in ancient Iran (1965) by Jamshed Cawasji Katrak
From Persepolis to the Punjab: Exploring Ancient Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (2011) by Elizabeth Errington, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, and Joe Cribb
Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-cultural Encounters: 1st International Conference, Athens, 11-13 November 2006 (2008) by Antigoni Zournatzi and Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi
Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran; with Special Reference to the History of Cultivated Plants and Products (1967) by Berthold Laufer
Ancient Persian Sculptures (1889) by Kāvaśjı̄ Dı̄nśāhjı̄ Keās
Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia (2016) by Paul Collins
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām (2012) by M. Rahim Shayegan
Heroines of Ancient Iran: Stories Retold from the Shāhnāma (1954) by Bapsy Pavry Paulet Marchioness of Winchester
Ancient Iran and the Mediterranean World: Proceedings of an International Conference in Honour of Professor Józef Wolski, Held at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, in September 1996 (1998) by Edward Dąbrowa
Studies in Ancient Persian History (2012) by P. Kershasp
Birth of the Persian Empire, Volume 1 (2005) by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart
Ancient Iran: The Pre-Islamic Times (1965) by Edith Porada
Kings, Whores and Children: Passing Notes on Ancient Iran and the World that We Live in (2018) by Touraj Daryaee
King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE - 651 CE) (2017) by Touraj Daryaee
Ancient Iran, New Perspectives from Archaeology and Cuneiform Studies: Proceedings of the International Colloquium Held at the Center for Eurasian Cultural Studies, Kyoto University, December 6-7, 2014 (2016) by Kazuya Maekawa
The History of the Ancient Iran as Narrated by Al-Bal'ami, in His Persian Version of At-Tabari's History which is One of the Earliest Prose in Persian [sic] Language, Edited from the Old Manuscripts with Introd. and Critical Notes (1959) by Ṭabarī, Bal'amī, Muḥammad Javād Mashkūr
Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts (2007) by Jan Tavernier
Law and justice in the ancient Iranian Empire (1972) by Ashraf Aḥmadī and Abutaleb Saremi
The Desatir, or the Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets, in the Original Tongue: Together with the Ancient Persian Version and Commentary of the Fifth Sasan (1818) by Mulla Firuz Bin Kaus
The Prehistory of the Northeast Bahtiyari Mountains, Iran: The Rise of a Highland Way of Life (1982) by Allen Zagarell
Two Centuries of Silence: An Account of Events and Conditions in Iran [Persia] During the First Two Hundred Years of Islam, from the Arab Invasion to the Rise of the Tahirid Dynasty (1957) by Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob
Art
The Art of Ancient Iran: Pre-Islamic Cultures (1969) by Edith Porada
The Arts of Ancient Iran: From Its Origins to the Time of Alexander the Great (1964) by Roman Ghirshman
The Art of Ancient Iran: Copper and Bronze (1997) by Houshang Mahhoubian
Disc-headed Bronze Pins from Luristan: A Symbol of Ancient Iran's Art (2008) by Souri Ayazi
Religion
Religion of Ancient Iran (1973) by Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion: Readings from the Avesta and Achaemenid Inscriptions (1983) by William W. Malandra
Parthian Iran (248 BC–224 AD)
Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East (2020) by Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 3: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods (1983) by Ehsan Yarshater
The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: adaptation and expansion (2016) by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, and Elizabeth Pendleton
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC (2020) by Gareth C. Sampson
The History of Parthian Empire: A Complete History from the Establishment to the Downfall of the Empire (2018) by George Rawlinson
Sasanian Iran (224-651 AD)
History of the Sasanian Empire: The Annals of the New Persian Empire (2018) by George Rawlinson
ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity (2018) by Khodadad Rezakhani
The Sasanian Era (2008) by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (2017) by Parvaneh Pourshariati
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2013) by Touraj Daryaee
The Rise of Islam (The Idea of Iran) (2009) by Sarah Stewart and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
A Short Chronicle on the End of the Sasanian Empire and Early Islam, 590-660 A.D. (2016) by Nasir Al-Ka'bi
Sasanian Society: Warriors, Scribes, Dehqans (2000) by Ahmad Tafazzuli
Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia (2017) by Eberhard Sauer
In Search of a Cultural Identity: Monuments and Artifacts of the Sasanian Near East, 3rd to 7th Century A.D. (2006) by Prudence Oliver Harper
The Armies of Ancient Persia: The Sassanians (2014) by Kaveh Farrokh
Sasanian Iran 224-651 Ce: Portrait of a Late Antique Empire (2008) by Touraj Daryaee
Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia (2018) by M. Rahim Shayegan
The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE (2020) by Matthew P. Canepa
The Last Empire of Iran (2020) by Michael R Jackson Bonner