Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan
By: Ammar Ali Jan
4.27
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
Why have democratic institutions and norms not taken root in Pakistan? In these polemical essays, A…
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1. Taboo: A Ph. D. Girl in the Red Light Area
By: Fouzia Saeed
3.88
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
The book is a journey of discovery into the infamous red light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known … read more
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2. Water
By: Bapsi Sidhwa , Deepa Mehta
3.99
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An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there,… read more
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3. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
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4. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
By: Will Durant
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle,… read more
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5. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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6. Karachi, You're Killing Me!
By: Saba Imtiaz
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Mohammed Hanif says: "Racey, pacey and laugh-out-loud funny. A Murree beer-soaked love letter to Ka… read more
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7. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined ta… read more
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8. Dozakhnama
By: Arunava Sinha , Rabisankar Bal
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Who tells the greatest story -- God or Manto? Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary… read more
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9. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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10. The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan
By: K.K. Aziz
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this volume, Aziz sets out to correct the injustice that has been committed in Pakistan ever sin… read more
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11. پیر کامل (Peer-e-Kamil, #1)
By: Umera Ahmed
3.97
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Peer-e-Kamil(English: The Perfect Mentor) is a story focusing on a deviational sect which violates … read more
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12. The Zahir
By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho
4.06
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The narrator of The Zahiris a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges… read more
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13. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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14. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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15. Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
By: None , David Barsamian , None
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
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16. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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17. Raja Gidh / راجه گدھ
By: Bano Qudsia
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
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18. Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , Barbara Harlow , Ghassan Kanafani , None
4.50
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Short stories describing the Palestinian experience of the Middle East conflict. Each involves a ch… read more
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19. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.17
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innov… read more
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"Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds."-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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20. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
21. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
22. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
23. Azadi
By: Arundhati Roy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more
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"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"-Arundhati Roy, Azadi
24. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
25. New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop
By: Fatima Bhutto
3.54
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range… read more
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"...the gods bless the lonesome through music and dance."-Fatima Bhutto, New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop
26. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
By: Richard M. Eaton
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self… read more
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"[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years ea…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"In addition, Sultan Iltumish, for all his rhetoric of being India's sole legitimate Muslim ruler, continued to issue coins with the old bull-and-horseman motif and a Sanskritized form of his name and…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian …"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"['A]lamgir [Aurangzeb] came to formulate a very different model of sovereignty for himself and for the empire he ruled. In this new dispensation, the kingdom would be governed not by a charismatic, s…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
27. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
28. Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan
By: Ammar Ali Jan
4.27
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
Why have democratic institutions and norms not taken root in Pakistan? In these polemical essays, A… read more
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29. Red Birds
By: Mohammed Hanif
3.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An American pilot crash lands in the desert, unprepared for any situation that can’t be resolved wi… read more
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"What are people if not the sum total of their memories?"-Mohammed Hanif, Red Birds
30. Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry
By: Ali Husain Mir
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Let a thousand verses bloom. Anthems of Resistance is about the iconoclastic tradition of poetry n… read more
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31. Rethinking Pakistan a 21st Century Perspective
By: Bilal Zahoor
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
‘A post pandemic story written way before the pandemic. A haunting little book about second chances… read more
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