Nothing like it in the world: Stephen Ambrose
John Adams: David McCullogh
The book of Q: JOnathan Rabb
King Leopold's Ghost: Hochschild
POwer: Greene
Killing Time: Caleb Carr
Body of Secrets:James Bamford
The Eye of Horus: Carol Thurston
Jeeves Omnibus: P.G. Wodehouse
Currently reading 'Alexander Hamilton' by Richard Brookhiser
well there is one from my course but it was exceptionally good .....THE CATcHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger...very good book
also other books that i read this year and i think u should read are:
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Ordinary People
by Judith Guest
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
ahhh....good times!!!
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Gosh you guys have time to read! I hardly get to read for leisure.
I’m currently reading The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, which is absolutely brilliant. It won a lot of prizes and is incredibly witty and insightful.
I also read Candide by Voltaire. It was um, interesting.
i don't have enuf time everyday but i read at nite!!
all u gotta do is find some time!!
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
1.The Tao of Islam
2.Majnun and Leila
3.Rumi: In the arms of the beloved
4.The way of Passion, A celebration of Rumi
5.Windows on the house of Islam
6.The fairest of Tales (story of the Prophet Yusuf).
7.Whispers of the beloved (Rumi)
8.Muslim Philosophy and Philosophers
9.The Alchemy of Happiness
10.The price of Honor
11.Nine parts of desire, the hidden path of Muslim women.
12.Rubaiyat (Omar Khayyam)
13.The Bezels of wisdom
14.The Garden beyond Paradise, the mystical poetry of Rumi.
BTW The Bezels of Wisdom by Hazrat Shaykh al Akbar is a book not to be read alone without the guidance of a Sufi Master, especially not in translation, as it is not meant for the layman and also as it has some additions in it which were not by Shaykh al Akbar and which were written by a heretic,
Yeah I have read lots of others but didnt want to list them all. I love Poetry and Philosophy. I read this one other book called “My Soul is a Woman”, its great. I love reading Sufi poetry its wonderful. Rumi has too be the all time best for me that is.
I do know how to read and write arabic, so i can understand it, but I guess that does not count since I’m an arab
i m not claiming anything here but i have also read a few worth mentioning books in recent days…dont worry the list is too short compared to what others have been posting
I used to read about 20 books a year. Then I started university and I’ve been too busy to read much. I guess that inshallah once I graduate things will pick up again…
on “The Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam by Allama Muhammad Iqbal”
baap re baap…shudder
Asif, in terms of reading, 2001 was a very fertile year for me but 99% of the stuff i read was for my courses so i won’t bore you wid the boring details. But i will tell you what i enjoyed most among the fictional stuff i read in 2001.
they are none other than the 4 great books of J K Rowling’s–The Harry Potter series.