11 Top pakistan books like No-Win War: The Paradox of US-Pakistan Relations in Afghanistans Shadow by Zahid Hussain

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No-Win War: The Paradox of US-Pakistan Relations in Afghanistans Shadow

By: Zahid Hussain

4.23

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

This book explores the post-9/11 relations between the US and Pakistan. The growing divergence betw…

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1. The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more

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"Never venture, never win!"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Danger has a bracing effect."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The wise warrior avoids the battle."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If his forces are united, separate them."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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2. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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3. Pakistan- the Formative Phase 1857--1948

By: Khalid B. Sayeed , George Cunningham

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Not just a historical narrative, The Formative Phase evaluates the strength and weakness of the Mus… read more

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4. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.33

Format: None pages,

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with L… read more

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5. India Wins Freedom: The Complete Version

By: Abul Kalam Azad , Humayun Kabir

3.62

Format: 128 pages,

India Wins Freedom is an enlightened account of the partition from the author, Maulana Azad's persp… read more

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6. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within

By: Shuja Nawaz

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on 30 years of research and analysis, this definitive book is a profound, multi-layered, and … read more

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7. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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8. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… 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. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

12. 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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13. My Feudal Lord

By: Tehmina Durrani , William Hoffer , None

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged… read more

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14. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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15. The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011)

By: Ishtiaq Ahmed

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This study seeks to solve the following puzzle: In 1947, the Pakistan military was poorly trained a… read more

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16. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more

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17. Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen , Tony Tanner , Ros Ballaster

4.08

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convi… read more

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"to hope was to expect"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"She was stronger alone…"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"Sense will always have attractions for me."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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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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"Zia perished in 1988"

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

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19. 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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20. Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

By: Husain Haqqani

3.84

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a ‘poorly imagined country’. Indeed, Pakistan has meant d… read more

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"In one way, it was. After the ‘Objectives Resolution’ there was no turning back from Pakistan’s status as an Islamic ideological state."

-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

"Pakistan has been unfortunate that its leaders and rulers have repeatedly chosen ideological wooden-headedness over pursuit of reasonable and viable options."

-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

"Most Pakistanis would rather gloss over inconvenient truths or be content with blaming different villains for their country’s plight when confronted with unpleasant facts."

-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

"In popular sentiment, just as conspiracies have made Pakistan weak and vulnerable, its destined economic greatness has been thwarted by corruption, not poor policy choices."

-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

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21. Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance

By: Ishrat Husain

3.68

Format: 550 pages, Hardcover

Pakistan, since its independence in 1947, had to face tumultuous years for the first four decades. … read more

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22. Pakistan: Courting the Abyss

By: Tilak Devasher

3.91

Format: 575 pages, Kindle Edition

Recent writings on Pakistan have tended to focus on the role of the Pakistan Army, the nuclear prog… read more

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23. No-Win War: The Paradox of US-Pakistan Relations in Afghanistans Shadow

By: Zahid Hussain

4.23

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

This book explores the post-9/11 relations between the US and Pakistan. The growing divergence betw… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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