| # | Book / Pamphlet | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now or Never | Chaudhry Rehmat Ali |
| 2 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| 3 | Pakistan: A Personal History | Imran Khan |
| 4 | History of the Saracens | Syed Ameer Ali |
| 5 | Pakistan Was Inevitable | Syed Hassan Riaz |
| 6 | Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
| 7 | Diplomacy | Henry Kissinger |
| 8 | World Order | Henry Kissinger |
| 9 | On China | Henry Kissinger |
| 10 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| 11 | Awaz-e-Dost | Mukhtar Masood |
| 12 | Insan aur Aadmi | Muhammad Hasan Askari |
| 13 | Freedom at Midnight | Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre |
1. Pakistan, Politics and History
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friends Not Masters | Ayub Khan |
| 2 | In the Line of Fire | Pervez Musharraf |
| 3 | Daughter of the East | Benazir Bhutto |
| 4 | Reconciliation | Benazir Bhutto |
| 5 | The Myth of Independence | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| 6 | If I Am Assassinated | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| 7 | My Brother | Fatima Jinnah |
| 8 | Jinnah of Pakistan | Stanley Wolpert |
| 9 | Sole Spokesman | Ayesha Jalal |
| 10 | The Making of Pakistan | K. K. Aziz |
| 11 | The Emergence of Pakistan | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali |
| 12 | Pakistan: A Modern History | Ian Talbot |
| 13 | India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalam Azad |
| 14 | The Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 15 | The Indian Struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose |
2. Political Science and Philosophy
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Republic | Plato |
| 2 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 3 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| 4 | The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 5 | Two Treatises of Government | John Locke |
| 6 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| 7 | The Clash of Civilizations | Samuel P. Huntington |
| 8 | The End of History and the Last Man | Francis Fukuyama |
| 9 | The Open Society and Its Enemies | Karl Popper |
| 10 | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt |
| 11 | The Road to Serfdom | Friedrich Hayek |
| 12 | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 13 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 14 | The Future of Freedom | Fareed Zakaria |
3. Economics and Science
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| 2 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| 3 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes |
| 4 | The Population Bomb | Paul R. Ehrlich |
| 5 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| 6 | Cosmos | Carl Sagan |
| 7 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| 8 | The Double Helix | James D. Watson |
| 9 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| 10 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
4. English Literature
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| 2 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 3 | Othello | William Shakespeare |
| 4 | Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| 5 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 6 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 7 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 8 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| 9 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| 10 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| 11 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 12 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 13 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) | George Orwell |
| 14 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 15 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 16 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 17 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 18 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| 19 | The Odyssey | Homer |
| 20 | The Iliad | Homer |
5. Islamic and Urdu Literature
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bang-e-Dra | Allama Muhammad Iqbal |
| 2 | Bal-e-Jibril | Allama Muhammad Iqbal |
| 3 | Zarb-e-Kalim | Allama Muhammad Iqbal |
| 4 | Asrar-e-Khudi | Allama Muhammad Iqbal |
| 5 | Javid Nama | Allama Muhammad Iqbal |
| 6 | Muqaddimah | Ibn Khaldun |
| 7 | Ihya Ulum al-Din | Imam Al-Ghazali |
| 8 | Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb | Ibn Sina |
| 9 | Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum | Safi-ur-Rahman Mubarakpuri |
| 10 | The Spirit of Islam | Syed Ameer Ali |
| 11 | Aag Ka Darya | Qurratulain Hyder |
| 12 | Raja Gidh | Bano Qudsia |
| 13 | Zavia | Ashfaq Ahmed |
| 14 | Toba Tek Singh | Saadat Hasan Manto |
| 15 | Umrao Jaan Ada | Mirza Hadi Ruswa |
| 16 | Udas Naslain | Abdullah Hussein |
| 17 | Khuda Ki Basti | Shaukat Siddiqui |
| 18 | Aangan | Khadija Mastoor |
| 19 | Alipur Ka Aili | Mumtaz Mufti |
Additional Pakistan, Politics and History Books
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Struggle for Pakistan | I. H. Qureshi |
| 2 | Pakistan: The Formative Phase | Khalid B. Sayeed |
| 3 | Pakistan: A Political Study | Keith Callard |
| 4 | Pakistan in the Twentieth Century | Lawrence Ziring |
| 5 | A Concise History of Pakistan | M. R. Kazimi |
| 6 | Pakistan: A New History | Ian Talbot |
| 7 | Pakistan: A Hard Country | Anatol Lieven |
| 8 | The Idea of Pakistan | Stephen P. Cohen |
| 9 | Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan | Hamid Khan |
| 10 | Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis | S. M. Burke |
| 11 | The Military and Politics in Pakistan | Hasan Askari Rizvi |
| 12 | Revolution in Pakistan | Herbert Feldman |
| 13 | From Crisis to Crisis | Herbert Feldman |
| 14 | Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia | Ayesha Jalal |
| 15 | Pakistan Under Bhutto | Shahid Javed Burki |
| 16 | Pakistan: Political Roots and Development 1947–1999 | Safdar Mahmood |
| 17 | Issues and Realities of Pakistani Politics | Anwar H. Syed |
| 18 | We Have Learnt Nothing from History | M. Asghar Khan |
| 19 | Pakistan in Search of Democracy | Hamid Yusuf |
| 20 | The Battle for Pakistan | Shuja Nawaz |
| 21 | Frontline Pakistan | Zahid Hussain |
| 22 | Making Sense of Pakistan | Farzana Sheikh |
| 23 | Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State | Maleeha Lodhi (Editor) |
| 24 | The Future of Pakistan | Stephen P. Cohen |
| 25 | Pakistan’s Foreign Policy 1947–2016 | Abdul Sattar |
| 26 | Pakistan: A Historical and Contemporary Look | Farooq Naseem Bajwa |
| 27 | Pakistan: The Enigma of Political Development | Lawrence Ziring |
| 28 | Pakistan: History and Politics 1947–1971 | M. Rafique Afzal |
| # | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Pakistan Issue | A. B. Rajput |
| 2 | Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah: The Story of a Nation | G. Allana |
| 3 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A Political Study | Hector Bolitho |
| 4 | The Life of Mahomed Ali Jinnah | Hector Bolitho |
| 5 | Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan | Hector Bolitho |
| 6 | The Sole Spokesman | Ayesha Jalal |
| 7 | The Pakistan Movement | I. H. Qureshi |
| 8 | The Making of Modern Sindh | Hamida Khuhro |
| 9 | Shahab Nama | Qudratullah Shahab |
| 10 | The China-Pakistan Axis | Andrew Small |