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Book recommendations!

International Relations:
a. John Mearsheimer
Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Conventional Deterrence

b. Stephen Walt
Origins of Alliances
Revolution and War

c. Kenneth Waltz
Man, the State and War
Theory of IR

World History

a. Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
b. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
c. Four volumes of European History by Eric Hobsbawm:
Age of Capital, Age of Revolutions, Age of Extremes, Age of Empire.

Islam:

a. No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Raza Aslan
b. Lost History - The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists by Michael Hamilton Morgan
c. The Sealed Nectar by Saifur Rehman
d. After the Prophet by Lesley Hazilton

History of Subcontinent

a. South Asia: A historical narrative by Muhammad Yunus
b. Indus Saga by Aetzaz Ahsan
c. Discovery of India by Jawaharlal nehru
d. Early India by Romila Thapar
e. Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal

Afghanistan

a. Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
b. Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
c. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting small wars in the midst of a big one by Kilcullen
d. Hearts, Minds, and the Barrel of a Gun by Giustozzi
e. Koran Kalashnikov and Laptop by Antonio Giustozzi

Kashmir

a. The Kashmir Dispute by A.G.Noorani
b. Kashmir: A disputed legacy by Alaister Lamb
c. Kashmir: the case for freedom by Tariq Ali
d. Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
e. The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed

Intelligence and Espionage

a. The Secret World by Christopher Andrew
b. America's Secret War by George Friedman
c. Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
d. Directorate S: The CIA & Secret Wars Steve Coll
e. The Great Game series of 6 books by Peter Hopkirk.

Humour

a. The hundred year old man who jumped out of the window and disappeared
b. The Girl who saved the king of Sweden
c. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
d. The Twits by Roald Dahl
e. Patras kay mazaameen.
f. The Diary of Hendrik Groen
g. Anything by Jerome K Jerome

Palestine Conflict

a. Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag
b. Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.
c. Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky.
d. Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein. e. Drinking Sea at Gaza by Amira Hass.

Autobiographies

a. Diary of a young girl
Anne Frank
b. Losing my virginity by Richard Branson
c. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
d. Long walk to freedom, Nelson Mandela
e. I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
f. In the line of fire by Gen Musharraf

Pakistan affairs/history:

a. Pakistan a hard country by Anatol Lieven
b. Crossed Swords by Shuja Nawaz
c. The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali
d. End of the Great Game by Hasan Sadiq
e. Pakistan at the Crossroads by Christophe Jaffrelot

Sufism
a. منطق الطیور
b. رسالہ قشیری
c. فوائد الفواد
d. کشف المحجوب
e. مثنوی مولوی

Political Satire
a. 1984
b. Animal Farm
c. Essays of Harishankar Parsai
d. Jean La Fontaine’s “Fables”

Military History

a. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
b. The Second World War by Antony Beevor
c. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
d. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 by Christopher R. Browning
e. The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler

Indo-Pak Partition

a. From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab - Pippa Virdee
b. Remembering Partition - Pandey
c. Divided Cities: Partition and its aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar - Ian Talbot
d. The long partition and the making of modern south asia - Wazira Zamindar

e. The spoils of partition - Bengal and India 1947-1967 - Joya Chatterjee
f. Freedom at Midnight - Lappierre
g. The Remnant of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra
h. The dream shattered by Ghulam Kibriya
I. Train to Pakistan
f. A Time of Madness by Salman Rashid

Romance

a. Gone with the Wind
b. P.S. I love you, Cecelia Ahern
c. Me before you, Jojo Moyez
d. The lover’s dictionary
e. Historical romances by Judith Mcnaught, Julia Quin and Lisa Kleypas.
f. Bet me by Jennifer Cruise and Some by Meg Cabot.

Feminism

a. Great Ancestors by Farida Shaheed
b. The Upstairs Wife by Rafia Zakariya
c. Second sex by simone de beauvoir
d. The feminine mystique by Betty Friedan
e. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
f. 50 concepts of Gender studies by Jane Pilcher

US foreign policy

a. The Oil Kings by Andrew Scott Cooper
b. American Foreign Policy by Bruce Jentleson
c. Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Meansheimer
d. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
e. The Israel lobby and US Foreign policy by John J Mearsheimer

Marxism

a. The Communist Manifesto
b. The Dilemmas of Lenin
c. The people's tragedy, Orlando Figes
d. Criticism and Ideology by Terry Eagleton
e. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
f. The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
g. In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky
h. Anarcho-Communism

Getting over a heart break

a. Reclaiming your heart, Yasmin Mogahed.
b. A little life, Hanya Yanagihara
c. Man’s Search for Meaning
d. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
e. PS. I Love You
f. If you could see me now by Cecelia Ahern
g. Ashes, Wine and Dust by Kinza Javaid

Urdu Literature

a. اداس نسلیں- عبداللہ حسین
b. ڈاکیا اور جولاہا- تارڑ
c. جھوٹے روپ کے درشن- راجہ انور کے خطوط
d. مجموعہ عصمت چغتائی
e. مجموعہ امرتا پریتم
f. رابندرناتھ ٹیگور کی کہانیاں
g. منٹو نامہ