Bookless in Baghdad is a 2005 book written by author Shashi Tharoor. It is a compilation of various articles and columns written by him to the various publications he writes to. These articles that were selected are about literature and authors. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam: ശശി തരൂ൪ ; born 1956) is the United Nations Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information. ...

It is a mixed bag of his own book reviews and columns on writers, books and literary musings. Bookless in Baghdad is one of such article that appears at the end of the book, where the author writes about his experience when he visited Baghdad on a UN initiative soon after the Gulf War.