Best Reads
Please recommend any book you think is worth reading for this blog.
1. Prince by Machiavelli
2. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
3. The Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
5. The Art of War by Sun Zu
6. Waiting for Allah by Christina Lamb
7. Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life & Times by Stanley Wolpert
8. Partisan of Allah: Jihad in South Asia by Ayesha Jalal
9. Pakistan’s Arms Procurement and Military Build Up 1979-99: In Search of a Policy
10.The Guru of Love: A Novel by Samrat Upadhyay
11. The Sole Spokeman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal
13. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective by Ayesha Jalal
14. An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
15. Gandhi by Demi
16. Mein Kamfp by Adolf Hitler
17. Gandhi by James Brown
18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A life by Gerald Martin
18. Hitler’s Youth: Growing Up in Hitler Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
20. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
21. I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
22. Brother by Yu Hua (Chinese/English).
23. Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential by Gene Sharp
24. On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals by Robert Helvey (download from http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsa511.html)
25. From Dictatorship to Democracy (Chinese, Farshi,Russian, Spanish).
26. There are realistic Alternatives by Gene Sharp
27. The Anti-Coup by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins
28. Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century
29. My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durani
30. Indus Saga & the Making of Pakistan by Aitzaz Ahsan
31. In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharaf
32. Muslim Women of Power : Gender, Politics, & Culture in Islam- Clinton Bennet
33. Friends Near Home: Pakistan’s Strategic Security Options
34. Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto
35. The Last Call: Curse of the Bhutto’s Name
36. Goodbye Shazadi: A Political Biography of Benazir Bhutto by Shyam Bhatia
37. Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
38. Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir by Fatima Bhutto
39. American Diplomacy
40. Why Muslims Rebel by Mohammad M. Hafeez
41. US Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power by Steven W. Hook
42. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict by Peter Ackerman
43. Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Start by Ann Robinson
44. Peace : A History of Movements and Ideas by David Cortright
My favorite Chinese movie is To Live by Zhang Yimou. For book I will pick Brothers by Yu Hua.
Dear Patty,
Your recommendations have been added. Thanks for visit and contribution. Looking forward to receiving other contributions as well.
Thanks,
Editor