Recommended Reading List of Pakistani Writing in English

Courtesy of Donald Hubbard

Moshin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), Moth Smoke (2000)

Kamila Shamsie – Burnt Shadows (March 2009), Broken Verses (2005), Kartography (2002), Salt and Saffron (2000), In the City by the Sea (1998)

Mohammed Hanif – A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008)

Daniyal Mueenuddin – In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (short stories) (2009)

Ali Sethi – The Wish Maker (June 2009 US, July 2009 UK)

Nadeem Aslam – The Wasted Vigil (2008), Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Season of the Rainbirds (1993)

Uzma Aslam Khan – The Geometry of God (2008), Trespassing (2003)

Shaila Abdullah – Saffron Dreams (2009), Beyond the Cayenne Wall: Collection of Short Stories (2005)

Azhar Abidi – Twilight (2008, US as The House of Bilqis, April 2009)

Musharraf Ali Farooqi – The Story of a Widow (2008)

Muneeza Shamsie – And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005), Leaving Home: Towards A New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001), A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (1997)

Moni Mohsin – The Diary of a Social Butterfly (March 2009), The End of Innocence (2006)

Aamer Hussein – Another Gulmohar Tree (May 2009 UK), Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women (editor) (2005), Cactus Town and Other Stories (short stories) (2003)

Tahira Naqvi – Attar of Roses and Other Stories from Pakistan (1998), Dying in a Strange Country (linked stories) (2001)

Suhayl Saadi – Joseph’s Box (July 2009 UK), Psychoraag (2004)

Bapsi Sidhwa – The Crow Eaters (1978, Lahore), The Pakistani Bride (2008, originally published as The Bride, 1983), Cracking India (1991, originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988), An American Brat (1993)

Zulfikar Ghose – The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967)

Sadat Hasan Manto – Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (collection containing Manto’s unforgettable ‘Toba Tek Singh,’ first published in 1955) (2004)

Ahmed Ali – Twilight in Delhi (1940). Pre-Partition portrait of New Delhi.

Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan (1956). The 2006 edition of Train to Pakistan, published by Roli Books in New Delhi, also contains 66 photographs by Margaret Bourke-White that capture the partition’s violent aftermath.