Books suggested by sahil Sharifdin Bhat
To understand the world, read.
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A List of the 110 Greatest Books in Human History
''These books delve into various disciplines, offering profound insights, expanding knowledge, and shaping our understanding of the world and ourselves. They have left an indelible mark on human history and continue to be celebrated for their significance and impact. They must be in your library. ''
Religion:
1. "The Qur'an" (Koran)
2. "The Bible" (Old and New Testaments)
3. "The Bhagavad Gita"
4. "The Analects" by Confucius
5. "The Dao De Jing" by Laozi (Lao Tzu)
6. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
7. "The Dhammapada"
8. "The Book of Mormon"
9. "The Confessions" by Saint Augustine
10. "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
Politics:
11. "The Republic" by Plato
12. "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
13. "The Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes
14. "The Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
16. "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill
17. "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
18. "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville
19. "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek
20. "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt
Economics:
21. "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
22. "Capital: Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx
23. "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" by John Maynard Keynes
24. "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
25. "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen
26. "Development as Freedom" by Amartya Sen
27. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond
28. "The Worldly Philosophers" by Robert L. Heilbroner
29. "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein
30. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
Literature:
31. "The Iliad" by Homer
32. "The Odyssey" by Homer
33. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
34. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
35. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
36. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
37. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
39. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez
40. "1984" by George Orwell
Biography:
41. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
42. "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
43. "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
44. "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" by Mahatma Gandhi
45. "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" by Samuel Pepys
46. "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell
47. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
48. "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" by William Manchester
49. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
50. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
Love:
51. "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
52. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
53. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
54. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily BrontΓ«
55. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
56. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
57. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
58. "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez
59. "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks
60. "Call Me by Your Name" by AndrΓ© Aciman
Science:
61. "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin
62. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn
63. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
64. "The Double Helix" by James D. Watson
65. "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Philosophy:
66. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
67. "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche
68. "Being and Time" by Martin Heidegger
69. "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant
70. “The Incoherence of the Philosophers” by Al-Ghazali"
Psychology:
71. "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud
72. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
73. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
74. "The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini
75. "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief" by Jordan B. Peterson
History:
76. "The Histories" by Herodotus
77. "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman
78. "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn
79. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer
80. "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford
Social Sciences:
81. "The Interpretation of Cultures" by Clifford Geertz
82. "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir
83. "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault
84. "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire
85. "The Sociological Imagination" by C. Wright Mills
Environment and Ecology:
86. "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert
87. "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold
88. "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
89. "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells
90. "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Art and Aesthetics:
91. "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich
92. "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger
93. "The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche
94. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
95. "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Technology and Society:
96. "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr
97. "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen
98. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
99. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff
100. "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" by Klaus Schwab
Feminism and Gender Studies:
101. "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir
102. "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan
103. "Gender Trouble" by Judith Butler
104. "Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay
105. "We Should All Be Feminists" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Race and Identity:
106. "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois
107. "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
108. "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
109. "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo
110. "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi
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A superb list of motivational books for everyone suggested by Sahil Sharifdin Bhat:
I) The Art of War
[Sun Tzu]
II) Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking
[Barrie Davenport and S. J. Scott]
III) Rich Dad Poor Dad
[Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter]
IV) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
[Carol Dweck]
V) The 80/20 Principle
[Richard Koch]
VI) How to win friends and influence people. How to stop worrying and start living
[Dale Carnegie]
VII) The 48 Laws of Power
[Robert Greene]
VIII) Think and Grow Rich
[Napoleon Hill]
IX) 12 Rules for Life
[Jordan Peterson]
X) The Intelligent Investor
[ Benjamin Graham]
XI) The Power of Habit
[Charles Duhigg]
XII) No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
[Brian Tracy]
XIII) The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
[Tim Ferriss]
XIV) The 5 AM Club
[ Robin Sharma ]
XV) The Law of Attraction
[Esther Hicks]
XVI) Thinking, Fast and Slow
[ Daniel Kahneman ]
XVII) The 5 Second Rule
[ Mel Robbins]
XVIII) Unlimited Memory
[ Kevin Horsley]
XIX) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
[Stephen Covey]
XX) The Secret
[Rhonda Byrne]
XXI ) The Four Agreements
[ Don Miguel Ruiz]
XXII) Choose Yourself
[ James Altucher]
XXIII) Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum
[ Neil Patel]
XXIV) Tuesdays with Morrie
[Mitch Albom]
XXV) Man’s Search for Meaning
[Victor E. Fankl]
A special list of books for Literature lovers only suggested by sahil Sharifdin Bhatπ
1] The scarlet letter
[ Nathaniel Hawthorne]
2] Lord of the flies
[ William Golding ]
3]To kill a mockingbird
[ Harper Lee ]
4]Jane Eyre
[ Charlotte BrontΓ« ]
5] Wuthering heights
[ Emily BrontΓ« ]
6.Tess of the D'urbervilles
[ Thomas Hardy ]
7.The great Gatsby
[ F. Scott Fitzgerald ]
8.Things fall apart
[ Chinua Achebe]
9.Animal farm
[ George Orwell ]
10.The invisible Man
[ H G wells ]
11.Uncle Tom's cabin
[ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
12.Vanity fair
[ William Makepeace Thackeray ]
13.Life of Pi
[ Yann Martel ]
14.A tale of two cities
[ Charles Dickens ]
15.Robinson Crusoe
[ Daniel Defoe ]
16.Gulliver's travels
[ Jonathan swift ]
17.Robin Hood
[ Howard Pyle ]
18. Mobi Dick
[ Herman Melville ]
19.The Bluest Eye
[ Toni Morrison ]
20.Pamela
[ Samuel Richardson ]
21.Hard Times
[ Charles Dickens ]
22.Far from the madding crowd
[ Thomas Hardy ]
23.The return of Native
[ Thomas Hardy ]
[ A story of marrying a wrong man and thus ruining your dreams ]
24.Three mistakes of my life
[ Chetan Bhagat ]
25.For whom the bell tolls
[ Ernest Hemingway ]
26.My story
[ Kamala Das ]
27.SONS AND LOVERS
[ D.H. Lawrence ]
28.A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
[ V.S. Naipaul ]
29.The guide
[ R K Narayan ]
30.Train to Pakistan
[ Khushwant Singh ]
31.Untouchable
[ Mulk Raj Anand ]
32.Broken Wings
[ Kahlil Gibran ]
33.Alchemist
[ Paulo coelho ]
34. Whoever Fights Monsters
[ Robert Ressler]
35. David Copperfield
[Charles Dickens]
36.The adventures of Tom Sawyer
[Mark Twain]
37. Twelfth night
[William Shakespeare]
38. The Mayor of Casterbrigde
[Thomas Hardy]
39. Game changer
[Shahid Afridi]
40. Imran khan
[Christopher sandford]
41. Anna Karenina
[ Leo Tolstoy]
42] Middlemarch
[George Eliot]
43.The Grapes of Wrath
[John Steinbeck]
44.The God of Small Things
[Arundhati Roy]
45. Girls of Riyadh
[Rajaa Alsanea]
46. Saints and Misfits
[ S.K. Ali]
47. Written in the Stars
[Aisha Saaed]
48. The Girl In the Tangerine Scarf
[Mohja Kahf]
49. Three Daughters of Eve
[Elif Shafak]
50.The End of History and the Last Man
[Francis Fukuyama]
51. Around the World in Eighty Days
[Jules Verne]
52.Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
[ Mao Zedong]
53. Gone with the Wind
[ Margaret Mitchell]
54. The Man Who Couldn't Die
[ Olga Slavnikova]
55. Does My Head Look Big in This?
[Randa Abdel-Fattah]
56. Love, Hate & Other Filters
[Samira Ahmed]
57. Deep in the Sahara
[ Kelly Cunnane]
58. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged
[ Ayisha Malik]
59. Frankenstein
[ Mary Shelley]
60. Great Expectations
[ Charles Dickens]
61. Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
62. Dracula
Bram Stoker
63. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
64. The sealed nectar
[Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri ]
( The best book on the prophet Muhammad ο·Ί ]
65. The collaborator
Mirza waheed
66. Herzog
Saul Bellow
67. That long silence
Shashi Deshpande
68. The age of innocence
Edith Wharton
69. The old man and the sea
Ernest Hemingway
70. The colour purple
Alice walker
71. Devdas
Novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
72. The Bride’s Mirror by G.E. Ward
73. River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder
74. I Take This Woman by Khushwant Singh
75. Bazaar-e-Husn by Premchand
Translated as Sevasadan by Snehal Shingavi
76. Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza Hadi Ruswa
Translated by Khushwant Singh and M. A. Husaini
77. Ajeeb Aadmi by Ismat Chughtai
Translated as A Very Strange Man by Tahira Naqvi
78. The Weary Generations
Novel by Abdullah Hussain
79. Pir-e-Kamil [ The perfect mentor ]
Novel by Umera Ahmad
[ A book on religion, love, cheating and forgiveness ]
80. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
[ A book on the addiction of lust ]
81. Love Story by Erich segal
[ A book on love marriage and its side effects ]
82. Fifty shades of Grey by E L James
[A book on love , lust , hate and break up ]
83. The Forty Rules of Love
Novel by Elif Shafak
84. Nineteen Eighty-Four
Novel by George Orwell
85. The mill on the Floss
George Eliot
[ A complex love story of a brother and sister ]
86 . Adam Bede by George Eliot
[ A story of two brothers and a girl ]
87. Doctor Thorn by Anthony Trollope
[ A story of murdering the rapist of one’s sister ]
88 . No name
by Wilkie Collins
[ A story of girl power ]
89. Jude the obscure
[ A story of lust , religion, fate , compromise , self-destruction and disobeying the social laws ]
90. Wings of Fire
[ Apj Abdul kalam & Arun Tiwari ]
91. Ikigai
[ By Francesc Miralles
& Hector Garcia]
92 . The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir
[Christopher Snedden]
93. Kashmir: A Disputed Legacy
[ Alastair Lamb ]
(Oxford University Press)
94.FOLK-TALES OF KASHMIR
(REV. J. HINTON KNOWLES)
95. The valley of Kashmir [1895]
( Sir Walter Roper Lawrence ]
96 . Sophie’s World (Jostein Gaarder )
97 . The Notebook(Nicholas Sparks )
98 . Forged
(Bart D Ehrman )
99. God Arises
( Maulana Wahiddudin Khan)
100. The Divine Reality
[Hamza Andreas Tzortzis]
101. Arms And the Man
[ George Bernard shaw]
102. Candida
[ George Bernard shaw]
103. Major Barbara
[ George Bernard shaw]
104. Twelfth Night
[ William Shakespeare]
105. November 9
[Colleen Hoover]
106. "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
(Walter Isaacson)
107. Cry, the Peacock
Novel by Anita Desai
108. My name is red
Orhan Pamuk
109. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
110. Crime And Punishment by Dostoyesky
111. The 48 Laws of Power
Book by Robert Greene
112. A Brief History of Time
Book by Stephen Hawking
113. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Book by Bronnie Ware
114. The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
115. Marriage and morals By Bertrand Russell
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Best History Books on Islam, World, India and Kashmir Suggested by Sahil Sharifdin Bhat :
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