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Further Readings: Pakistan Bibliography (Adult)

Art
Behrendt, Kurt A. The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
Rehman, , I.A..Arts and crafts of Pakistan. Photographs, Ikram Bukhari, Asif Raza. Karachi: Export Promotion Bureau, Govt. of Pakistan, 1994.
Kalter, Johannes. The arts and crafts of the Swat Valley: living traditions in the Hindu Kush. New York : Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Current Affairs
Abbas, Hassan. Pakistan's drift into extremism : Allah, the army, and America's war on terror. Foreword by Jessica Stern.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
Hussain, Zahid. Frontline Pakistan : the struggle with militant Islam. Gardners Books, 2006.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the line of fire: a memoir. New York: Free Press, c2006.
Siddiqa, Ayesha.  Military Inc.: inside Pakistan’s military economy. Plato Press, 2007
Weaver, Mary Anne. Pakistan: in the shadow of jihad and Afghanistan. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

History and Culture
Bennett Jones, Owen. Pakistan : eye of the storm.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.
Ziring, Lawrence. Pakistan : at the crosscurrent of history. Oxford : Oneworld, 2003.
Hamid, Moshin. Moth Smoke. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 (Fiction)
Hamid, Moshin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. (Fiction)
Shamsie, Kamila.  Broken Verses.  Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2005 (Fiction)
Suleri, Sara. Meatless days.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1989
Naqvi, Tahira.  Attar of roses and other stories of Pakistan . Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1997. (Fiction)

Travel
Alter, Stephen. From Amritsar to Lahore : a journey across the India-Pakistan border.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Curran, Jim. K2 : the story of the savage mountain. Mountaineers Books, 2000.   
Curran, Jim. K2: triumph and tragedy.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989, 1987.
Davidson, Robyn. Desert places. New York: Viking, 1996.
Fosco, Maraini. Karakoram; the ascent of Gasherbrum IV. Translated. from the Italian by James Cadell. Textbook Publishers, 2003.
Houston, Charles S. and Robert H. Bates. K2: the savage mountain. Lyons Press, 2000.
Jamie, Kathleen. Among Muslims: journey to the heart of Pakistan. Avalon Publishing Group, 2002.
McDonald, Bernadette.Brotherhood of the rope: the biography of Charles Houston Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, c2007.          
Murphy, Dervla. Where the Indus is young. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.

Women
Brown, Louise. The dancing girls of Lahore : selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district.  New York: Fourth Estate, 2005.
Haeri, Shahla. No shame for the sun: lives of professional Pakistani women. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 
Husain, Sarah.Voices of resistance: Muslim women on war, faith & sexuality.  Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006   
Jordan, Jennifer.Savage summit: the true stories of the first five women who climbed K2, the world's most feared mountain.  New York: Morrow, 2005
Mai, Mukhtar and Marie-Thérèse Cuny. In the name of honor: a memoir. Translated by Linda Coverdale ; foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof.   New York : Atria Books, 2006
Ring, Laura A.  Zenana: everyday peace in a Karachi apartment building. Indiana University Press, 2006.

 


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