Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Fatima Bhutto
3.93
Format: None pages,
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding h…
Want to ReadIf you liked the history plot in Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir by Fatima Bhutto , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
2. Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
By: Devdutt Pattanaik
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
SITA : AN ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE RAMAYANA It is significant that the only character in Hindu … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Devdutt Pattanaik's Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
3. Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Fatima Bhutto
3.93
Format: None pages,
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding h… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- unfinished
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
4. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bha… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mohammed Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
5. The Forty Rules of Love
By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی
4.12
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
6. Pakistan: A Personal History
By: Imran Khan
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Imran Khan's Pakistan: A Personal History book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
7. The Pilgrimage
By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
The Pilgrimagepaved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In man… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
8. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
9. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
10. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
By: Jean Sasson
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four man… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jean Sasson's Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
11. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
12. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
13. All the King's Men
By: Robert Penn Warren
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
14. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
15. 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
Want to Read $ 10.05Similar categories in Arundhati Roy's Azadi book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"...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
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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- 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
17. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
By: Farah Bashir
4.10
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Farah Bashir's Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
18. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
19. Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop … read more
Want to Read $ 13.49Similar categories in Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth: A Recent History book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
By: Owen Bennett-Jones
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the co… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Owen Bennett-Jones's The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
21. The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea
By: Jihyun Park
4.25
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jihyun Park's The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea book and Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
