Some Recommendations

Palestine

• The Hundred Years War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi

• Perfect Victims, Mohammed El-Kurd

• The Palestine Sermons, Dr. Khaled Abou el Fadl

American History & Social Critique

• A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

• How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr

• How the World Works, Noam Chomsky

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Social Justice & Activism

• Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Audre Lorde

• All About Love, bell hooks

• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

• Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez

Memoirs & Personal Narratives

• The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls

• The Diary of Anaïs Nin

• The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

• Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen

• Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton

Fiction - Classic Literature

• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

• The Essential Kafka, Franz Kafka

• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

• The Awakening, Kate Chopin

• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Fiction - Contemporary Literature

• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

• Atonement, Ian McEwan

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

• Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

• The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez

Fiction - Speculative & Fantasy

• 1984, George Orwell

• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

Religion, Spirituality, Philosophy

• The Study Qur'an, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• Nahj al-Balagha, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib

• The Vision of Islam, Sachiko Murata & William Chittick

• The Heart of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• The Garden of Truth, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Allama Iqbal

• Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God, William Chittick

• In Search of the Lost Heart, William Chittick

• Fatima is Fatima, Ali Shariati

• The Secrets of the Self, Allama Iqbal

• With the Heart in Mind, Mikaeel Ahmed Smith

• The Prophet's Heir, Hassan Abbas

• Husayn: The Saga of Hope, Jalal Moughania

• Believing Women in Islam, Asma Barlas

• No God but God, Reza Aslan

• The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence

• The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

• Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

• Philosophy in the Islamic World, Peter Adamson

• The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, René Guénon

• Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson

• In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, Nate Anderson

• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

English Poetry

• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Stephen Mitchell translation)

• Poems 1962-2012, Louise Glück

• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

• The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

• The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

Urdu/Persian Poetry

• The Divan of Hafez

• The Essential Ghalib

• The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

• Khushbu, Parveen Shakir

• Kulliyat-e-Allama Iqbal

Podcasts

• The Mizan Institute Selections

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