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<\/a>All the titles the DWL Islamabad Readers’ Club has read since March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n
The Islamabad Readers’ Club has changed at least seven locations\u00a0since it started. But we have now settled upon the Classic Rock Coffee cafe in Super market, where we have met each month\u00a0for the past six months. Every\u00a0month, new people join in and regular members return for an insightful discussion on the\u00a0selected book.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the memorable incidents that took place during our meetings:<\/p>\n
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- During the first year, Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus drew in more participants than books by Marquez and Murakami<\/span><\/li>\n
- So many people showed up for the discussion of Asimov’s Caves of Steel that we literally barricaded the entrance of the cafe we were meeting at, and the administration had to force us out eventually<\/span><\/li>\n
- When we were discussing Carl Sagan’s Contact, one of the participants, an elderly\u00a0scientist, told us\u00a0he had attended a lecture by Mr. Sagan in the US during his youth and that Mr. Sagan had snubbed him when he had asked a question at the end of the lecture<\/span><\/li>\n
- One of the participants brought along an original French language copy of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery for our discussion on the book<\/li>\n
- We read George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s Pyaar ka Pehla Sheher in\u00a0the same month, and that was probably the most well-attended session and most passionate discussion in the club’s history because ORWELL and TARAR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Looking back at the books we read, we’re glad to see a mix of genres and a representation of writers from around the world.\u00a0We’ve read classics, contemporary fiction, at least one Urdu novel, multiple translated works, women authors, Pakistani fiction, and short stories.<\/p>\n
Here are all the titles the Islamabad Readers’ Club has read, in order from earliest to most recent:<\/p>\n
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
2. The Stranger by Albert Camus\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
4. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
5. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
7. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
8. Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlow<\/span><\/p>\n
9. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
10. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
11. Everyman by Philip Roth\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
12. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
13. Survival Tips for Lunatics by Shandana Minhas\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
14. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
15. The Spinner’s Tale by Omar Shahid Hamid\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
17. The Crash of ’79 by Paul E. Erdman\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
18. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
19. Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
21. Pyaar ka Pehla Sheher by Mustansar Hussain Tarar\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
22. The Road by Cormac McCarthy\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
23. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
24. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
25. Dune by Frank Herbert\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
26. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
27. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
28. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
29. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
30. Contact by Carl Sagan\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
31. The Vegetarian by Han Kang\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
32. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
33. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
34. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
- So many people showed up for the discussion of Asimov’s Caves of Steel that we literally barricaded the entrance of the cafe we were meeting at, and the administration had to force us out eventually<\/span><\/li>\n