The best ever book you read

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Crime and Punishment/Dombey and Son/Brothers Karamazov/Under Western Eyes/All Quiet on the Western Front/1984/Brave New World/Ivanhoe/twilight of the idols/the prophet/hard times/prayer of the frog

i think.

urdu may shafiq-ur-rehman ki short stories.

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aah, reading, it's such a wonderfull thing to do. to bad i am so busy.

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the last good book i read was The Cobra Event..
nowadayz....i m reading... Tigers Daughter and Tomcats Love...

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this current lifestyle has made me drop the book
there was a time couple of years ago when I couldn't sleep without reading

My all time fav. was (still is), For whom the bell tolls - by E. Hemingway, I have the urdu translation as well , named "Vidaa-e-Jang"
My reading taste is quite varied and I have flipped through everything, from Ibn-e-Safi to Ibn e Insha to Mushtaq Yousfi to Alistair Maclean to Egyptology, I particularly like reading biographies and Lee Ioccoca's biography is my fav

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i'm not much of a reader, but my favorite books are East of Eden by Steinbeck and Bless Me Ultima (i forget the author's name)..there might be more, but i can't remember :)

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Umro Ayar Ki Zanmbeel:chai:
Zaban ka ras
Anglo Banglo
Ishtiaq Ahmed or Ibny Safi ky novels

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100 splendid suns
The Kite Runner
Kabul Beauty School

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Reminds me of Farewell To Arms, another novel by him, good enough to have made me fall in love with his writings.

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a fine balace by Rohinton Mistry.

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'a fine balance' is definitely on my list of the best books i've ever read. the book deserves a thread of its own actually!

SCIENCE QUIZMASTERS GAME!!!!
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Don't read too many fictional books by I like books by Ed McBain I have quite a few of his '87th Precinct' series. I also enjoyed Night Of The Fox by Jack Higgins and Windmills Of The Gods by Sidney Sheldon.

Mind Blowing
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I like "Queen Margot" over this one :) The movie is also nothing compared to novel.

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One of my most favourite novels is Rebbeca - Daphne du Maurier

I don't wanna
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Shogun was great! Harry Potter books are so much fun! Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were riveting. Lately, Three Cups of Tea has been on my hit parade.

But my favorite of all time is an out-of-print book that I got at a garage sale called "Malevil" by Robert Merle. About a nuclear holocaust and some few survivors in france who lived because they were touring a wine cellar at the time. I made the mistake of loaning it to a colleague and never got it back but its a book I'd read again and again and again.

I'm getting distracted too easily:
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I have too many favourite books to choose only one amongst them:

All books of Shafiq ur Rehmaan, especially Himaaqtein. I can never get tired of reading his books, think I have already read them hundreds of time.

Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Lord Emsworth At his Best and other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
Marco Voldo, by Italo Calvino
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
And almost all plays by Brecht....I am afraid the list is so long that I might as well stop here.