Reviews of Fiction Books

About Belly Dancers

or Set In the Middle East

Table of Contents

Romance Novels

Books marked with a star are Shira's top picks.

The Leslie Family Series

The Kadin. By Bertrice Small.

Love Wild and Fair. By Bertrice Small.

The Skye O'Malley Series

Skye O'Malley. By Bertrice Small. Love for All Time. By Bertrice Small.

All the Sweet Tomorrows. By Bertrice Small. Lost Love Found. By Bertrice Small.

California Belly Dance Series

Shimmy for Me. By Deanna Cameron.

Other Romance Novels

Forever and a Baby. By Margot Early. A Memory of Love. By Bertrice Small.

The Cowboy and the Belly Dancer. By Charlotte Maclay. Master of Silk. By Gia Dawn.

Adventure Tales

The Evangeline Gower Series

Baby Love. By Louisa Young. Desiring Cairo. By Louisa Young.

Tree of Pearls. By Louisa Young.

Other Adventure Tales

Crocodile on the Sandbank. by Elizabeth Peters. Longarm and the Nevada Belly Dancer. By Tabor Evans. Dancer of Gor. By John Norman.

The Spy Who Hated Licorice. By Richard L. Hershatter. The Belly Dancer in the Barrel of Oil. By Rebecca Newman.

Archeology & the Ancient Near East

King And Goddess. By Judith Tarr.

Crocodile on the Sandbank. by Elizabeth Peters.

Other Fiction

Valide, A Novel of the Harem. By Barbara Chase-Riboud.

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