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Shop for Fiction Books
with Middle Eastern or Belly Dance Themes

Explore fictional books that either feature belly dancers as characters or contain themes centered around the Middle East or North Africa.

Romance Novels

The Kadin

Bertrice Small

Central character is a Scottish girl who becomes one of the wives of an Ottoman sultan.

Love Wild and Fair

Bertrice Small

Sequel to The Kadin. The plot passes briefly through 16th-century Ottoman Turkey.

Cover	To Purchase From Amazon	Title	Author / Instructor	Shira's Rating	Comments
		Skye O'Malley	Bertrice Small	Read Shira's review	Historical romance novel based in 16th-century Ireland, England, and Algeria.
		All the Sweet Tomorrows	Bertrice Small	Read Shira's review	Sequel to Skye O'Malley. Set in England, Riviera, Algeria, Morocco, and France.
		A Love for All Time	Bertrice Small	Read Shira's review	Sequel to All The Sweet Tomorrows. Set in 16th-century England and Turkey.
		Lost Love Found	Bertrice Small	Read Shira's review	Sequel to A Love For All Time. Set in England and Turkey in the early 17th century.

Cover	To Purchase From Amazon	Title	Author / Instructor	Shira's Rating	Comments
		A Memory of Love	Bertrice Small	Read Shira's review	Historical romance novel based in 13th-century England, Wales, and Tunisia.
		The Fourth Queen	Debbie Taylor
		Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul	John Freely
		Forever and a Baby	Margot Early	Read Shira's review	Central character is a midwife whose extended family has many ties to the Middle East.
		The Cowboy and the Belly Dancer	Charlotte Maclay	Read Shira's review	A young man tries to cope with a genie who pops into his life.

Cover	To Purchase From Amazon	Title	Author / Instructor	Shira's Rating	Comments
		Baby Love	Louisa Young	Read Shira's review	Former belly dancer fights back against various men who are all out to complicate her life in one way or another.
		Desiring Cairo	Louisa Young	Read Shira's review	Sequel to Baby Love. Picks up where Baby Love left off, and tells you what happened next.
		Tree of Pearls	Louisa Young	Read Shira's review	The 3rd book in the series begun with Baby Love.

Cover	To Purchase From Amazon	Title	Author / Instructor	Shira's Rating	Comments
		Longarm and the Nevada Belly Dancer	Tabor Evans	Read Shira's review	Lawman in the Old West tries to find a belly dancer who appears to be connected to a robber.
		The Spy Who Hated Licorice	Richard L. Hershatter	Read Shira's review	A secret agent in the Cold War era has a partner who counts belly dancing as one of her many talents.
		Dancer of Gor	John Norman	Read Shira's review	Science fiction with a hefty dose of bondage fetish.
		The Belly Dancer in the Barrel of Oil	Rebecca Newman	Read Shira's review	A young woman who works as a belly dancer keeps finding herself fending off advances from the wrong kind of men.