The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Pakistan

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
1930 The Way Of The World Nicolas Bouvier 1963 French French
1947 Shame Salman Rushdie 1983 British English
2227 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2874 River of Fire Qurratulain Hyder 1959 Indian Urdu
4755 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4989 The Wandering Falcon Jamil Ahmed 2011 Pakistani English
5136 Toba Tek Singh Saadat Hasan Manto 1955 Pakistani Urdu
5308 Ice-Candy-Man Bapsi Sidhwa 1988 Pakistani English
5592 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
6405 In Xanadu William Dalrymple 1989 British English
6440 Tomb Of Sand Geetanjali Shree 2018 Indian Hindi
6441 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6506 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
6672 India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha 2007 Indian English
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
8026 Among The Believers V. S. Naipaul 1981 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8333 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin 2006 American English
8565 Ghost Wars Steve Coll 2004 American English
8991 The Deal Of The Century Steve Coll 1986 American English
9538 A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif 2008 Pakistani English
9657 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
10534 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
11129 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11542 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
12076 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
13256 The Photographer Emmanuel Guibert 2003 French English
13559 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 2013 Pakistani English
14457 The White Man’s Burden William Russell Easterly 2006 Unknown English
14498 The Trial Of Henry Kissinger Christopher Hitchens 2001 British English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14947 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14984 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14984 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
14984 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
15898 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15898 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
16562 K2 The Savage Mountain Charles Houston, Robert Bates 1954 American English
16532 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
17120 Directorate S Steve Coll 2018 American English
17120 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009 Pakistani English
17120 The Crow Eaters Bapsi Sidhwa 1978 Pakistani English
17120 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17120 Difficult Daughters Manju Kapur 1998 Indian English
17120 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17120 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17120 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17120 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17120 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 Shadows At Noon Joya Chatterji 2024 Unknown English
17120 In Exile Sadiya Ansari 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Partition Project Saadia Faruqi 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17120 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English
17120 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17120 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17120 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17120 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17120 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17120 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17120 Ancient Cities Of The Indus Valley Civilization Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 1998 Unknown English
17120 The Other Side Of Silence Urvashi Butalia 1998 Indian English
17120 Midnight's Furies Nisid Hajari 2015 Unknown English
17120 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17120 Partitions Amit Majmudar 2011 American English
17120 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17120 The Moghul Thomas Hoover 1983 American English
17120 Code Red Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills 2023 American English
17120 Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshi 2014 American English
17120 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17120 No Easy Day Mark Owen 2012 American English
17120 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
17120 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17120 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
17120 The Age Of Kali William Dalrymple 1998 British English
17120 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English