A List of 100 Books every Pakistani Should Read
Below is a list of Famous books mentioned by various notable personalities to understand Pakistan and the world in a better and different way
- The Battle for Pakistan Shuja Nawaz
- In the line of Fire-Pervaiz Musharaf
- The Spy Chronicles- Asad Durrani and AS Dulat
- Such to ye hai- Ch Shujat Hussain
- Controversially Yours-Shoaib Akhtar
- Pakistan -Imran Khan
- Game Changer – Shahid Khan Afridi
- Daughter of the East – BB Bhutto
- From Kargil to Coup -Naseem Zahra
- The Great tragedy – ZA Bhutto
- Pathway to Pakistan – Ch Khaliq uz Zaman
- On China -Henry Kissinger
- World Order – Henry Kissinger
- The Idea of Pakistan -Stephen Cohen
- Whispers in the Desert -Fatima Bhutto
- Songs of Blood and Sword- Fatima Bhutto
- Don’t sweat the small stuff -Richard Carlson
- The Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
- The old man and the Sea -Ernest Hemingway
- Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austin
- Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austin
- Origin of Species- Charles Darwin
- Towards new Pakistan- Ayub Khan
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Clash of Civilization – Samuel P Huntington
- Remaking of the World Order- Samuel P Huntington
- Higher than Hope – Fatima Meer
- Time Machine – H G Wells
- Being and Nothingness – Jean Paul Satre
- The Great Gats– Scot Fitzgerald
- Living History – Hilary Clinton
- Das Capital – Karl Marks
- The lessons of History- Will Durrant
- Madness & Civilization- Micheal Foucault
- Jinnah of Pakistan -Stanley Welport
- Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times
- Jinnah India Partition and independence – Jaswant Singh
- The Art of The Deal – Donald Trump
- The wealth of the Nations- Adam Smith
- Quaid e Azam the story of a Nation – G Allana
- Neither a Hawk nor a Dove-Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri
- Gandhi and Stalin – Louis Fischer
- Sword of Tipu Sultan
- Friends, not Masters-Ayub Khan
- My Brother-Fatima Jinnah
- Power failure -Syeda Abida Hussain
- From Plassey to Pakistan- Humayun Mirza
- We learnt nothing from history – Asghar Khan
- Quaid e Azam the story a nation – G Allana
- India Wins Freedom – Abdul Kalam Azad
- 1984- George Orwell
- Why Nations Fail (- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson)
- Pakistan, the formative Phase, 1857-1948 (- Khalid B. Sayeed)
- Pakistan: A Hard Country – Anatol von Lieven
- The sole spokesman: Jinnah the Muslim league and demand for Pakistan
- History of Ottoman Empire and Turkey – Shaw
- Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
- 1984-George Orwell
- The way of the World- Ron Suskind
- As you like
- Macbeth
- King lear -William Shakespeare
- Rise and fall of Roman Empire-Edward Gibbon
- The Sealed Nectar(Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum)-Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
- The Republic -Plato
- The Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking
- The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan-Aitzaz Ahsan
- The struggle for Pakistan- I H Qureshi
- Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
- A case of exploding mangoes- Muhammad Hanif
- Witness to surrender-Brig Siddiq Malik
- Working with Zia – Gen KM Arif
- Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah as I knew him-A.H. Isphani
- The Great Divide Britain India and Pakistan – H.V. Hudson
- The military and Politics in Pakistan – Hassan Askari Rizvi
- Shah Baleeghuddin ‘Tuba
- From Plassey to Pakistan -Humayun Mirza
- The End of India – Khushwant Singh
- The Narrow Corridor’ – Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson
- Sapiens’, the author Yuval Noah Harari
- The Future is Faster Than You Think, – Peter H Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- ‘Exponential’ – Azeem Azhar
- ‘The age of AI and our human future’ – Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocker,
- ‘The Pentagon’s brain’ an uncensored history of DARPA – Annie Jacobsen
- Warbot – Kenneth Payen
- Punjab – Rajmohan Gandhi
- The Man Who Ruled India – Philip Mason
- An Era of Darkness- Shashi Tharoor
- Hayat-e-Javed- Altaf Hussain Hali
- Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia – Ayesha Jalal
- Empire and Islam – David Gilmartin
- The Sole spokesman Ayesha Jalal
- Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins – Freedom at Midnight
- Harf e Shaug – Mukhtar Masood
- Issues in Pakistan’s Economy – S. Akbar Zaidi
- Pakistan Economy of Elitist State -Ishrat Hussain
- Growth and Inequality in Pakistan- Hafeez Pasha
- Pakistan Experience with formal Law -Osama Siddique
- Language, Policy, Identity and Religion- Dr Tariq Reman
- New Pakistani Middle Class- Ammara Maqsood
- Revelation: The Story of Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) – Meraj Mohiuddin
- Capital & Ideology – Thomas Piketty
- The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
- Upheaval (How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change) – Jared Diamond
- Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- The Metric Society – Steffen Mau
- The Big Picture – Sean Carroll
- Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
- Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom
- The Art of Thinking Clearly – Rolf Dobelli
- An apology for Muhammad and Muhammadans-John Davenport
The reviews of the above-mentioned Books will be shared in the upcoming posts. If you have anything interesting to share, Kindly let us know in the comments section