So far, we have the following, The genres can be anything, but so far we have unrequited love, maRomanticism, adventure, greek poetry, south indian writing...some arabic writers ( interesting ) , russian and german literature.


*Keep them coming*


****Foxglove****

"Junk" by Melvin Burgess.
"Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood.
"Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson.
"Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy.
"First Time" by Lara Harte.

Non-fiction:
"Women and Gender in Islam" by Laila Ahmed.
"Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law" by Catharine MacKinnon.
"Dude, Where's My Country" by Michael Moore.


****Celestine****
The suffering of young werther
Pascals pensee
future shock - alvin toffler
doors of perception - aldous huxley
the myth of sisyphus - albert camus
man & universe- murtaza mutaheri
thus spoke zarathustra - Neechy
complete works - RW emerson
complete works - M De MOntaigne
symposium by plato
Clockwork orange
1984
The bridge over teh river drina" by ivo andric




****Shazia04****
Despertaly seeking paradise
The book of disquiet
Moth smoke (Mohsin Hamid)
'The travels of Ibn Batuta'
Sebastian Faulks' "Birdsong"
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder,
Bill Bryson's "A short history of nearly everything"
city of djinns" by William Dalrymple
Sebastian Faulks' "Birdsong
Sophie's World bu Jostein Gaarder
Bill Bryson's "A short history of nearly everything
city of djinns" by William Dalrymple



****Zaheens****
Lovestory
The Baltimore Case
Saki


Kiterunner by Everybody

****SabilaK****
The shadow of the wind
The dogs of babel
Of human bondage
The huntsman
The heart is a lonely hunter
Shoeless joy
The sun also rises
The sound and the fury
As i lay dying

****Rahat04****
magical realism:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
travelogue:
The Road to Mecca by Mohammad Asad
Bio:
Autobio of Malcolm X by X and Alex Haley
best Indian writer:
Such a Long Journey or A Fine Balance -Rohinton Mistry
nothing else like it out there: KoolAids the Art of War by Rabih Alamedine


****Nuralaain****
The Twentieth Wife
THe Namesake
THe Kiterunner
A Fine Balance
She's Come Undone
Roots
the sword of the dragon - stephen king
wuthering heights - charlotte bronte
the prophet - khalil gibran
family matters - rohintin mistry
sister of my heart - chitra divant
The autobiography of Malcolm X
secret life of bees
Farenheit 451
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant



****Malithegreat****
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham
Brave new world- Aldous Huxley
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald


****Theanisa*****
Damnedifido


****Princesam360****
The Maat.


****Rayflex****
The Six-Pack Diet Plan"

Other good books:

Al Bidayah wa nihaya (the beginning to the end) by Ibn Kathir

"The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential persons in History"

"Media Control: The spectacular achievements of propoganda"

"Confessions of an economic hitman"

"Manufacturing Consent: The political economy of the mass media"

"Islam: A short History" -Karen Armstrong

"Magic words that bring you riches" -Ted Nicholas


****Aasmaan_asl****
reading lolita in tehran
the book seller of kabul
a fine balance
kite runner
the heart of islam - seyyed hossein nasr

Hasnain
The Modern Mind - Peter Watson
Stephen Kings IT
The PACT - Davis, Jenkis and Sampson

****Dijay****



*Cofessions Of A Shopaholic
*Charms For The Easy Life
*Eva Luna
*Everything On A Waffle
*The Bone-setters Daughter
*Because Of Winn-Dixie
*The Kite Runner
*Ellen Foster
*A Cure For Dreams
*Sights Unseen
*The Art Of Keeping Cool


****AmnaBanana****
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Unchained Memories

****Kazmio98****
The confederacy of dunces - pulitzer prize winner
guns, germs, and steel - pulitzer prize winner
confessions of an economic hitman
french women don't get fat

****Silverstorm****

Biographies/Non-Fiction:
"Princess" and
"Princess Sultana's Daughters: Behind the Veil"
- By Jean Sasson
A Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mendela
Emergency! True Stories from the Nations ER Vol 1 - Mark Brown, M.D.
Island in Chains - Indres Naidoo
Queen Noor
Sweetness in the Belly


Philosophy:
The Tao of Pooh
The Te of Piglet
The Four Agreements

Fiction:
Everyones Fave - The Kiterunner -
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Rising Sun - Michael Crichton
The Secret Life of Bees
Sense and Sensibility
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
Orthello

****hana khan****

Justine by Laurence Durell -part of 4 books
(Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea)
also known as The Alexandria Quartet)
To Kill a Mocking Bird- harper lee
1984
Animal Farm
Anne Karenina
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by richard bach


****Nakie****
The Souls of Black Folk
The Almond
Beethoven after Napoleon
****rayflex****
The Art of Way


****Brainvslove****
Doestoevsky's CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Hesse?s GLASS BEAD GAME
Hesse?s NARCISSUS & GOLDMUND
Eco?s NAME OF THE ROSE
Mahmood Hussein?s ESSIRA
Heller?s CATCH-22
Lemsine?s BENEATH A SKY OF PORPHYRY
Hugo?s LES MISERABLE

***Sweet Demotion****
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
1984
Burmese Days
Animal Farm
Perfume
The Great Gatsby
Muhammed -Martin Lings
Purification of the Heart _Hamza Yusuf
Wuthering Heights
The Art of War
Catch 22

****TigerLilyDreamz****
Cerius Blooms at Night - Shami Mootoo
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Invisible Cities - ItaloCalvino
Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
born confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier
Labyrinth - Jorge Luis Borges
The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
Midnight's Children - Salmon Rushdie
East, West - Rushdie
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
A Death Fortold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

****Gjamil****
slaughterhouse five-cats in the cradle
dostoevsky's -the idiot
jared diamond -collapse
The will to power - nietzsche
Great expectations - dickens
War and peace - tolstoy
Demons - dostoevsky
( and anything else that smells Russian )
ishmael by danny quinn


****Nazook10****
Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

****Guljaana****
1. Beloved ... Tony Morrison
2. The Fountainhead ..?yn Rand
3. The Art of war (Tzu and Minford) (anybody who knows about some great fiction that is set in a war context?)
4. The communist manifest..karl marx
5. Don Quixote (guess it's been covered already)
6. One flew over the cuckoos nest..Ken Kesey
I also think you should read some philosophy- Frege, Husserl, Edith Stein
And Mathematica oh Wow
7. Principia Mathematica ..Whiteheard and Russell
8. Godel's Proof ...Ernest Nagel
9. Knowledge and It's Limits ..Timothy Williamson
10. Moral Realism and the foundations of Ethics...David Owen Brink.
and Oh yes!
11. The crusades through arab eyes..Amin Malouf
12. Samarkand..Amin Malouf
13. Shadows of the pomegranate tree..Tariq Ali
14. Love in the time of cholera (been covered, guess)

****Congresswoman****
Buddha - Karen Armstrong

History of God - Karen Armstrong ( Karen Karen what can i say about her i love the way she writes i think she's amazing )

200 + ways the Quran corrects the Bible
How Islam Unites Judaism and Christianity - Mohamed Ghounem

The Everlasting Hatred: The roots of Jihad - Hal Lindsey(betrayel of the Jews read that chapter - it talks about whats happening in isreal its a conflict created to fullfill one religous groups prophecy one part of the story no one talks about. )

Gideon's spies: The secret History of the Mossad - Gordon Thomas (if you don't know much about the Mossad man this is going to shock y'all )

Way Chi(R), the Islamic way(DVD) - Damiel Lally (haven't seen this yet but looks interesting)

What Every American Should know about the rest of the world - Melissa Rossi

****samanz****

Nonfiction:
People's history of the united states by howard zinn
Freakonomics by steven levitt

Fiction: ishmael by daniel quinn
Phillip pullman's dark materials trilogy

****sabilak****
THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry!

****Losttheplot****
The Tainted Shadow" by Maleeha Kamal -

****nakia****
"The Qur'an: a user's guide" (F.Esack)
"The Shame of the Nation" (J.Kozol)
The Great Theft
promote Living Islam Out Loud, edited by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace

****Naz363****
A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry

****Superman****
Crazy Wisdom - Wes Nisker
How to Win - Dale Carnegie
Remember Everything You Read - ??
Who are you really, and what do you want? - Shad Helmstetter
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Velied Gazelle (or any book by) - Idries Shah


****Tabula Rasa****
A short history of everything
yeats is dead


****Majnuna ****
Anything by: amin maalouf

****Es_skwared ****
1. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
2. Prozac Nation
3. By the River Piedra, I Sat down and Wept - Paolo Coelho
4. Headhunter - Timothy Findley *This book is amazing...it plays on James Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

****simplysami****
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

****Banglamum****

Peter Hoeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow
Intense, gripping and totally 'turning the pages into the night, can't put it down' nailbiter with intelligence and beauty.

Orhan Pamuk - Snow and My Name is Red.
Have not read through, they await me on the shelf - what I have read in bits is fantastic.

Arundhati Roy's non fiction writing: The Algebra of Infinite Justice, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. Someone writing intelligently about how the other half really lives.

Vikram Seth - An Equal Music
The most intelligent and talented writer of our times. The man describes music as if it is a living breathing thing, he makes you 'see' the music. And it's a totally non-desi setting. Very romantic.

Suketu Mehta - Maximum City
One of those books I picked up in Dhaka thinking, hey that looks neat. The week that I read this, my mind was entrenched in the underbelly of Bombay life with it's gangsta/ politician/ filmstar/ hooker/ regular guy characters and insane twists and turns. A story of Bombay told through it's people - relevant to the here and now. A non fiction book written like a thriller. I was hooked. Like a desi Sin City.

Amitav Ghosh - Hungry Tide
A really beautiful story about an unknown part of the Indian subcontinent - the sundarbans. Marries the modern and ancient. Very socially aware as well.

Anythng by Terry Pratchett - die laughing until the world somehow makes perfect insane sense. The guards series is exceptional. Reader - be warped!

****Rzaruction****
1. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
2. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
3. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
4. The Famished Road - Ben Okri
4. 100 Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Gracia Marquez
5. Illusions - Richard Bach
6. Master and Margarita
7. Cairo Trilogy - Naghib Mahfouz
8. Essential Rumi
9. Complaint and Answer of Iqbal
10. Rubiyat - Omar Khayyam
11. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
12. The Epic of Gilgamesh
13. Cyrus the Great - Harold Lamb
14. Alexander of Macedon - Peter Green
15. Warriors of God - James Reston

****Afaq****
Wind, Sand and Stars
The Little Prince
Love in the Time of Cholera
100 Years of Solitude
The Suffering of Young werther
Anna Karenina