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Moth Smoke
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3.86 avg rating — 12,240 ratings
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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3.77 avg rating — 12,118 ratings
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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3.73 avg rating — 83,091 ratings
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Kartography
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3.89 avg rating — 3,999 ratings
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Urdu Ki Akhri Kitaab / اردو کی آخری کتاب
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4.30 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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Bullets and Train
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Adeerus Ghayan (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Nuskha ha-e Wafa / نسخہ ہائے وفا
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4.58 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Cracking India
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3.85 avg rating — 5,893 ratings
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The Scriptwriter
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Adeerus Ghayan (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Patras Kay Mazameen / پطرس کے مضامین
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4.39 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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Raja Gidh / راجه گدھ
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4.18 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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Peer-e-Kamil/پیر کامل
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4.47 avg rating — 12,616 ratings
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Broken Verses
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3.58 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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3.75 avg rating — 7,133 ratings
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The Pakistani Bride
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3.51 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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Toba Tek Singh: Stories
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4.23 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
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Salt and Saffron
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3.46 avg rating — 1,981 ratings
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Burnt Shadows
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3.93 avg rating — 8,564 ratings
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Ibil
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Adeerus Ghayan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Butterfly Season
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Natasha Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 143 ratings
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My Feudal Lord
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3.69 avg rating — 5,180 ratings
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Exit West
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3.74 avg rating — 148,860 ratings
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Zaviya / زاویہ
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4.43 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 614,756 ratings
score: 802,
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Zarguzasht / زرگزشت
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4.34 avg rating — 371 ratings
score: 792,
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
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3.42 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
score: 786,
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The Contract
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3.64 avg rating — 538 ratings
score: 744,
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Haveli
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3.69 avg rating — 398 ratings
score: 731,
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The Geometry of God
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Uzma Aslam Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 317 ratings
score: 730,
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Charagh Talay / چراغ تلے
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4.30 avg rating — 529 ratings
score: 729,
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Shahabnama / شہاب نامہ
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4.33 avg rating — 2,602 ratings
score: 705,
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How It Happened
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3.82 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
score: 674,
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Alipur ka Ailee / علی پور کا ایلی
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4.21 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
score: 659,
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Home Fire
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4.02 avg rating — 70,814 ratings
score: 655,
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Basti / بستی
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3.71 avg rating — 754 ratings
score: 654,
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Sikander
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M. Salahuddin Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 254 ratings
score: 628,
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An American Brat
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3.29 avg rating — 987 ratings
score: 610,
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The Crow Eaters
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3.78 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
score: 586,
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In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
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3.32 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
score: 567,
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Water
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3.98 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
score: 519,
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6 people voted
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Romance Quartet
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Farzana Moon (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 518,
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Khakam Badahan / خاکم بدہن
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4.38 avg rating — 443 ratings
score: 516,
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Babu Nagar / بابو نگر
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4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 497,
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Aab e Gum / آب گم
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4.35 avg rating — 479 ratings
score: 495,
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The Scatter Here Is Too Great
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3.34 avg rating — 743 ratings
score: 470,
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Cutting Edge: My Autobiography
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3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 469,
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Controversially Yours: An Autobiography
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3.68 avg rating — 726 ratings
score: 468,
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Imran: The Autobiography Of Imran Khan
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Imran Khan (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 249 ratings
score: 466,
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The Writing on My Forehead
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Nafisa Haji (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
score: 454,
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Season of the Rainbirds
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3.26 avg rating — 595 ratings
score: 445,
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Black Wings
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3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 435,
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Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
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4.05 avg rating — 315 ratings
score: 431,
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God's Own Land
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4.25 avg rating — 404 ratings
score: 395,
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Udaas Naslain / اداس نسلیں
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4.09 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
score: 391,
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Aik Mohabbat Sau Afsanay / ایک محبت سو افسافے
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4.22 avg rating — 585 ratings
score: 380,
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The Prisoner
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4.02 avg rating — 888 ratings
score: 376,
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Daughter of the East
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3.94 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
score: 366,
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Aangan / آنگن
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3.81 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
score: 365,
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Akhir-e-Shab Kay Hamsafar / آخر شب کے ہمسفر
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4.03 avg rating — 346 ratings
score: 358,
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Baagh / باگھ
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3.77 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 351,
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Faizan e Sunnat: Blessings of Sunnah (Vol.1)
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4.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 345,
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Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
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4.33 avg rating — 885 ratings
score: 335,
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Manto: Selected Stories
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4.18 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
score: 334,
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City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore
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3.96 avg rating — 211 ratings
score: 328,
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The Reluctant Mullah
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Sagheer Afzal (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 325,
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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
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Fatima Bhutto (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
score: 322,
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Bitter Fruit : The Very Best Of Saadat Manto
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4.36 avg rating — 812 ratings
score: 321,
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Terrorism: Theirs and Ours
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4.19 avg rating — 224 ratings
score: 316,
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Saffron Dreams
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Shaila M. Abdullah (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 338 ratings
score: 311,
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A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
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Zain Hashmi (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 300,
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Namal / نمل
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4.63 avg rating — 2,913 ratings
score: 295,
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आग का दरिया [Aag Ka Darya]
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4.04 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
score: 294,
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A Choice of Hashmi's Verse
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nadaar Log / نادار لوگ
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4.09 avg rating — 160 ratings
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La Hasil-Hollow Pursuits
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4.06 avg rating — 2,794 ratings
score: 287,
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Nashaib / نشیب
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Qaisar o Kisra / قیصر و کسریٰ
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4.25 avg rating — 761 ratings
score: 283,
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Thanda Gosht / ٹھنڈا گوشت
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4.08 avg rating — 736 ratings
score: 283,
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Raat / رات
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3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings
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No Such Thing as Love
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Antidote to Suicide
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Anarkali / انار کلی
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3.79 avg rating — 209 ratings
score: 278,
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Clifton Bridge: Stories of Innocence and Experience from Pakistan
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3.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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افسانے: پہلی صف اور دوسری کہانیاں
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Omer Ahmed Bangash (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 275,
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Thinner Than Skin
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Uzma Aslam Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 206 ratings
score: 268,
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Ghulam Bagh / غلام باغ
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4.26 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Black Margins
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4.26 avg rating — 291 ratings
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American Dervish
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Ayad Akhtar (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 9,408 ratings
score: 265,
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A God in Every Stone
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3.52 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
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3.86 avg rating — 4,178 ratings
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Dast e Teh e Sang / دستِ تہہِ سنگ
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4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Sweetness of Tears
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Nafisa Haji (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
score: 247,
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Karachi, You're Killing Me!
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Saba Imtiaz (Goodreads Author)
2.95 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Kai Chand Thay Sar-e-Aasman / کئی چاند تھے سر آسماں
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4.18 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Mere Bhi Hain Kuch Khawab / میرے بھی ہیں کچھ خواب
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4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Ramazan Libation
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Zindagi Gulzar Hai/زندگی گلزار ہے
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3.87 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
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3.80 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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The Golden Legend
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3.95 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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City of Spies
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Sorayya Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 804 ratings
score: 192,
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AoA Noorilhuda sahiba! It is per chance that I stumble on this blog to which I consider it my luck. I fully endorse your view/grief that unfortunately our really famous writers/intellectuals are still unknown to Western writers and readers. Rabindernath Tagore undoubtedly a genuine intellect got the Nobel Award just because of translation of his work Anjel (sorry not quoting correctly) as his friends in Europe got it translated in English...to quote. I appreciate your concern and would request you to pen more articles on this issue. I although an ordinary humble writer both in English and Urdu and translator for the last two decades can put my bit to assist you. Rana M.Sharif 'Aarpan' Lahore.
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