10 best-selling pakistan books like Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan by Nadeem Farooq Paracha

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Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan

By: Nadeem Farooq Paracha

4.12

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Pakistan is more than the sum of its news-making parts. In these marvellous essays on history, poli…

If you liked the pakistan plot in Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan by Nadeem Farooq Paracha , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. I Am the Messenger

By: Markus Zusak

4.03

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

protect the diamonds survive the clubs dig deep through the spades feel the hearts Ed Kennedy… read more

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"How’s yours?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"I’m Angelina,"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"What do I do now?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"My soul needs yours"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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2. Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Discontent and Its Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid traces the fracture lines generated by a decade a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • pakistan
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television…"

-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

"In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and p…"

-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

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3. The Party Worker

By: Omar Shahid Hamid

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author Omar Shahid Hamid's third and most chilling novel yet. A burnt out New York c… read more

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  • pakistan
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4. The Prisoner

By: Omar Shahid Hamid

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An international literary sensation, this chilling thriller “exposes. . . a world so dark that read… read more

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  • politics
  • pakistan
"Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him j…"

-Omar Shahid Hamid, The Prisoner

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5. The Spinner's Tale

By: Omar Shahid Hamid

3.92

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Sheikh Ahmed Uzair Sufi is one of the most feared men in Pakistan, a top Jihadi militant, who belie… read more

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  • pakistan
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6. Eleven Minutes

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven Minutesis the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent br… read more

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7. A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

By: Aman Sethi

4.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Like Dave Eggers's Zeitounand Alexander Masters's Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative repo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. On Chesil Beach

By: Ian McEwan

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… 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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  • politics
  • pakistan
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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan

11. Moth Smoke

By: Mohsin Hamid

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the len… read more

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12. Home Fire

By: Kamila Shamsie

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more

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13. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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14. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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15. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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16. 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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  • politics
"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"...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

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17. The Return of Faraz Ali

By: Aamina Ahmad

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more

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  • pakistan
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18. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan
"Zia perished in 1988"

-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

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19. Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan

By: Nadeem Farooq Paracha

4.12

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Pakistan is more than the sum of its news-making parts. In these marvellous essays on history, poli… read more

Similar categories in Nadeem Farooq Paracha's Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan book and Nadeem Farooq Paracha's Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • pakistan
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Little America

By: Zain Saeed

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Little America read more

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  • pakistan
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21. Rivals

By: Saad Shafqat

3.04

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

At Karachi's prestigious Avicenna Hospital, the hostility between Dr Tanya Shah and Doctor Hammad K… read more

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7 best-selling politics books like Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan by Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Transform Your Habits

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Mohsin Hamid

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Prisoner

Omar Shahid Hamid

4.03

Transform Your Habits

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan

K.K. Aziz

3.54

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15 Best audiobook books like The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh

Transform Your Habits

Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

Firas Alkhateeb

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

Husain Haqqani

3.02

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

Erika Fatland

4.28

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