Library
A path through books:
May you find a book that sparks your interest !
In Progress
| Al-Qur’an al-Majeed | |
| Crisis of the Modern World | René Guénon |
| On Becoming a Person | Carl Rogers |
| Stations of the Travellers (Manazil al-Sa’ireen) | Abdullah al-Ansari al-Harawi |
| Qisas an Nabiyeen | Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| Daily Wisdom | Abdur Raheem Kidwai |
| Hafez : The Poets of Shiraz | D. Davis |
Completed
Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
| The Qur’an : A New Translation | M.A.S Abdel Haleem |
| Tao Te Ching | Lao Tsu |
| Confessions | St Augustine |
| The Book of Assistance | Imam al-Haddad |
| The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam | Muhammad Iqbal |
| The Illumination | Ibn Ata Allah al-Sakandari |
| Alchemy of Happiness | Al-Ghazali |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| Aphorisms of Ibn Ata Allah | Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari |
| Road to Mecca | Muhammad Asad |
| Deliverance from Error | Al-Ghazali |
| Islam at the Crossroads | Muhammad Asad |
| Western Civilisation, Islam and Muslims | Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| Purification of the Heart | Imam Mawlud / Hamza Yusuf |
| Peace Is Every Step | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James |
| Bhagavad Gita | - |
| The Enchiridion | Epictetus |
| The Search for Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| O Dear Son (Ayyuhal Walad) | Al-Ghazali |
| Messenger | Tariq Ramadan |
| With the Heart in Mind | Mikaeel Ahmed Smith |
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rilke |
| Prayers of the Last Prophet | Yusuf Islam |
| Prayers Upon the Beloved | Umar Hafez |
| Sustenance for the Soul | Abu Zayd al-Balkhi |
| The Mind Illuminated | Culadasa |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and F. Engels |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran |
| 8000 Years of Wisdom | Mike Cast |
Fiction
| Aesop’s Fables | Aesop |
| The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| The Scarlet letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffery Chaucer |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| Brave New World & Revisited | Aldous Huxley |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| The Sorrows of young Werther | Goethe |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Last Answer, The Last Question | Isaac Asimov |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keys |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| The Time Machine / War of the Worlds / Invisible Man / Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Adventures of Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| The Rosie Project | Graeme Simison |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| The Hunger Games Trilogy | Suzanne Collins |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Tom Sawyer, Detective | Mark Twain |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | R.L. Stevenson |
| Koshka’s Tales | James Mayhew |
| The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
Psychology & Self-Development
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl |
| The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius |
| On Reading Well | Karen Swallow |
| Islamic Psychology | Abdallah Rothman |
| Black Skin, White Masks | Frantz Fanon |
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk |
| The Antidote | Oliver Burkeman |
| Mud, Sweat and Tears | Bear Grylls |
| Scattered Minds | Gabor Mate |
| The Elements of Eloquence | Mark Forsyth |
| 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto |
| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman |
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle |
| The Talent Code | Daniel Coyle |
| Games People Play | Eric Berne |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Oliver Sacks |
| How to Live | Derek Sivers |
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey |
| Boy, Going Solo | Roald Dahl |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer Adler |
| Die with Zero | Bill Perkins |
| The Price of Money | Rob Dix |
| Bad Science | Ben Goldacre |
| Driven to Distraction | Edward Hallowell |
| Love | Eric Fromm |
| Silence Your Mind | Ramesh Manocha |
| When I Say No I Feel Guilty | Manuel J. Smith |
| Feeling Good | David Burns |
| Help! | Oliver Burkeman |
| Into the Magic Shop | James Doty |
| Dream Yoga | Andrew Holecek |
| Hopeful | Omid Djalili |
| Can’t Hurt Me | David Goggins |
| Be Useful | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt |
| Your Money or Your Life | Vicki Robins |
| Darkness Visible | William Styron |
| Man and His Symbols | Carl Jung |
| Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up / Kurashi | Marie Kondo |
| A Conversation About Healthy Eating | Nicholas Lesica |
| Conversations with Scientists | Vivien Marx |
| Arabic Stories | Lufti Mansour |
| The Procrastination Equation | Piers Steel |
| The Death of Common Sense | Philip Howard |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| Wittgenstein for Beginners | Heaton & Groves |
| Kafka for Beginners | Mairowitz |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman | Richard Feynman |
| Stand Tall Little Girl | Hope Virgo |
| Your Lord Has Not Forsaken You | Najwa Zebian |
Poetry
| Mathnawi (Vol 1–4) | Rumi |
| Rubbaiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| Sonnets | Shakespeare |
| Four Quartets | T.S. Eliot |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Collected Poems | William Wordsworth |
| Pain and Passing | Joel Hayward |
| Nation’s Favourite Poems | BBC |
| International Poetry | Bartram |
| Classic Poetry | Rosen & Walters |
| Best-Loved Poems | Neil Philip |
| Anthology of Popular Verse | C. Huverford |
| Golden Apples | Fiona Waters |
| Poems for Gardeners | Various |
Paused (but not forgotten)
| Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Faust | Goethe |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Crossing the Floods | Ajahn Sucitto |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky |
| Message of the Qur’an | Muhammad Asad |
| Saviours of the Islamic Spirit | Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi |
| House of Wisdom | Jim Al-Khalili |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| Code | Charles Petzold |
| Essays | Francis Bacon |
| Short Stories in Arabic | Olly Richards |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| Purity of Heart is to will one thing | Søren Kierkegaard |
Books can serve not only to inform and entertain, but to enlighten us.
Which book will you choose next ?
