10 must-read pakistan books like A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

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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…

If you liked the pakistan plot in A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Omar Shahid Hamid's The Prisoner book and Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes

  • mystery
  • politics
  • pakistan
  • fiction
"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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2. Pakistan: A Hard Country

By: Anatol Lieven

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United St… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • pakistan
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3. The Crow Eaters

By: Bapsi Sidhwa

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the dawn of the 20th century in Pakistan, Freddy Junglewalla moves his family -- pregnant wife, … read more

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  • asia
  • pakistan
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. 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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  • pakistan
  • fiction
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5. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

By: Daniyal Mueenuddin

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more

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  • asia
  • fiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes book and Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes

  • asia
  • politics
  • humor
  • pakistan
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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7. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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8. 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

Similar categories in K.K. Aziz's The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan book and Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes

  • politics
  • pakistan
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9. Cracking India

By: Bapsi Sidhwa

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child… read more

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  • asia
  • pakistan
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. 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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11. 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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12. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

By: Lesley Hazleton

3.79

Format: 477 pages,

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13. Jinnah of Pakistan

By: Stanley Wolpert

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Unknown Binding

"Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world… read more

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14. Patras Kay Mazameen / پطرس کے مضامین

By: Patras Bukhari

3.92

Format: None pages,

pTrs khy mDmyn myN Zrft `m rwj sy htt khr hy. wr s kh aGz mkhtSr dybchy hy sy hwt hy: "gr yh khtb a… read more

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15. Kartography

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents… read more

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16. 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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  • asia
  • politics
"...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

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17. 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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  • asia
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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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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  • asia
  • politics
  • pakistan
"Zia perished in 1988"

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

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19. The Road to the Country

By: Chigozie Obioma

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"

-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country

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20. Shadows At Noon

By: Joya Chatterji

4.22

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'The story of South Asia told with verve, wi… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • pakistan
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21. In the Company of Strangers

By: Awais Khan

4.01

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Lahore – a city of secretive glamour, whispering elites, and sordid affairs. A city brought to its … read more

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  • pakistan
  • fiction

10 Top fiction books like A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

Transform Your Habits

The Prisoner

Omar Shahid Hamid

4.03

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The Crow Eaters

Bapsi Sidhwa

4.33

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

4.54

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin

4.10

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Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

3.93

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Kanthapura

Raja Rao

3.39

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The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice

3.83

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Helium

Jaspreet Singh

3.19

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