Books Written by Pakistani Authors
- by Ayad Akhtar
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Blending fact and fiction, Homeland Elegies follows an immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity...
- by Ayad Akhtar
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet — a visionary novel of...
- by Sabaa Tahir
- Teen Dystopian, Teen Fantasy, Teen Fantasy Romance
- Publication Year: 2016
Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to...
- by Sabaa Tahir
- Teen Dystopian, Teen Fantasy, Teen Fantasy Romance
- Publication Year: 2017
Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake...
- Activism and Social Justice, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal...
- by Samira Habib
- Biographies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist? Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2013
“I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.” When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan,...
- by Sabaa Tahir
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2013
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2015
From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.” Mohsin Hamid’s...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find...