Books
A path through books:
In Progress
| Crisis of the Modern World | René Guénon |
| On Becoming a Person | Carl Rogers |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Qisas an Nabiyeen (Arabic) | Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| Stations of the Travellers (Arabic: Manazil al-Sa’ireen) | Abdullah al-Ansari al-Harawi |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| Daily Wisdom | Abdur Raheem Kidwai |
Finished Books
Fiction:
| Aesop’s Fables | Aesop |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Brave New World & Revisited | Aldous Huxley |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Journey to the centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Koshka’s Tales | James Mayhew |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Cat’s cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Adventures of Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Series) | Douglas Adams |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Inimitable Jeeves, Thank you Jeeves, Jeeves in the Offing, How right you are Jeeves, Meet Mr. Mulliner | P.G.Wodehouse |
| The Iron Man | Ted Hughes |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Last Question and The Last Answer | Isaac Asimov |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| The Time Machine / War of the Worlds / The Invisible Man /Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells |
| The Hunger Games (Trilogy) | Suzanne Collins |
| The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Tales of Beedle the Bard | J.K. Rowling |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Tom Sawyer, Detective | Mark Twain |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| Paddington | Michael Bond |
| Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein |
Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
| Alchemy of Happiness | Al-Ghazali |
| Aphorisms of Ibn Ata Allah | Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari |
| Bhagavad Gita | — |
| Confessions | St Augustine |
| Purfication of the Heart | Imam Mawlud, Hamza Yusuf |
| Dua: The Weapon of the Believer | Yasir Qadhi |
| Islam at the Crossroads | Muhammad Asad |
| Message of the Qur’an | Muhammad Asad |
| Messenger | Tariq Ramadan |
| O Dear Son (Ayyuhal Walad) | Al-Ghazali |
| On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books | Karen Swallow |
| Letters to a Poet | Rilke |
| Peace Is Every Step | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Philosophy 101 by Socrates | Peter Kreeft |
| Prayers of the Last Prophet | Yusuf Islam |
| Prayers upon the Beloved | Umar Hafez |
| Road to Mecca | Muhammad Asad |
| Sustenance for the Soul | Abu Zayd al-Balkhi |
| The Book of Assistance | Imam al-Haddad |
| The Qur’an | M.A.S Abdel Haleem |
| The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam | Muhammad Iqbal |
| The Search for Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | J.W Goethe |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James |
| Timeless Seeds of Advice | B. B. Abdullah |
| Western Civilisation, Islam and Muslims | Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| With the Heart in Mind | Mikaeel Ahmed Smith |
| Your Lord Has Not Forsaken You | Najwa Zebian |
Psychology & Self-Development
| 8000 years of Wisdom | Mike Cast |
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey |
| 12 years a slave | Solomon Northup |
| A Conversation about Healthy Eating | Nicholas A. Lesica |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear |
| Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Breathing to Liberation | Ajahn Sucitto |
| Can’t Hurt Me | David Goggins |
| Conversations with scientists | Vivien Marx |
| Darkness Visible | William Styron |
| Die with Zero | Bill Perkins |
| Driven to Distraction | Edward M. Hallowell |
| Dream Yoga : Awakening through Lucid Dreaming | Andrew Holecek |
| Early Retirement Extreme | Jacob Lund Fisker |
| Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy | David D. Burns |
| Games People Play | Eric Berne |
| Healing the Shame That Binds You | John Bradshaw |
| Help! | Oliver Burkeman |
| How to Live | Derek Sivers |
| Hopeful | Omid Djalili |
| Into the Magic Shop | James Doty |
| I Will Teach You to Be Rich | Ramit Sethi |
| Islamic Psychology: Human Nature and the Path to Spiritual Development | Abdallah Rothman |
| Life changing magic of tidying up, Kurashi | Marie Kondo |
| Man and His Symbols | Carl Jung |
| Modern Romance | Aziz Ansari |
| Mud, sweat and tears | Bear Grylls |
| Procrastination Equation | Piers Steel |
| Recovery of Your Inner Child | Lucia Capacchione |
| Silence Your Mind | Ramesh Manocha |
| The Antidote | Oliver Burkeman |
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Oliver Sacks |
| The Price of Money | Rob Dix |
| The Procrastination Equation | Piers Steel |
| When I Say No I Feel Guilty | Manuel J. Smith |
| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman |
| Bad Science | Ben Goldacre |
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto |
| Black Skin, White Masks | Frantz Fanon |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer Adler |
| How to Flourish | Adapted from Aristotle |
| Kafka for Beginners | David Zane Mairowitz |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman | Richard Feynman |
| Stand tall little girl | Hope Virgo |
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels |
| The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius |
| The Death of Common Sense | Philip K. Howard |
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| Wittgenstein for Beginners | John Heaton & Judy Groves |
| Your money or your life | Vicki Robins |
Poetry
| Best-Loved Poems | Neil Philip |
| Big Book of Fairy Tales | Various |
| Book of Verse | Young Puffin books |
| Classic Poetry | Michael Rosen & Clare Walters |
| Golden Apples | Fiona Waters |
| International Poetry | Bartram |
| Mathnawi (Vol 1-4) | Rumi |
| Nation’s Favourite Poems | BBC |
| Oxford Children’s Book of Poetry | Michael Harrison & Christopher Stuart-Clark |
| Poetry by Heart | Liz Attenborough |
| Rubbiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| Sonnets | Shakespeare |
Paused but not forgotten:
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| Crossing the Floods | Ajahn Sucitto |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| Code | Charles Petzold |
| House of Wisdom | Jim al-Khalili |
| Short stories in Arabic | Olly Richards |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Saviours of the Islamic Spirit | Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| Essays | Francis Bacon |
Books can serve not only to inform and entertain, but to enlighten us.
Which book has been calling out to you ?
