Shaykh Hamza's Book Recommendations

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A list of book recommendations made by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. Credits go to https://shaykhhamza.com/recommendations/
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
17,909 members
235 reviews
3.9
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
67,680 members
1,063 reviews
3.8
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
57,898 members
851 reviews
4
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
52,203 members
749 reviews
3.9
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
51,805 members
983 reviews
4
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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
34,461 members
300 reviews
½ 4.3
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
31,528 members
287 reviews
4.2
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
25,850 members
475 reviews
4
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
77,674 members
1,337 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
10,944 members
109 reviews
3.8
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
12,470 members
187 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
by Jane Austen
341 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1, Poems and Poems in Prose
by Oscar Wilde
39 members
1 review
4.8
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
1,624 members
33 reviews
4.1
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A Modest Proposal [essay]
by Jonathan Swift
1,239 members
45 reviews
4
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
11,577 members
75 reviews
½ 4.4
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42,459 members
477 reviews
4.2
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Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
13,539 members
137 reviews
4.1
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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
36,823 members
506 reviews
4.1
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
22,793 members
248 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
35,341 members
438 reviews
3.9
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The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
23,147 members
205 reviews
4.1
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Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7,512 members
71 reviews
4.2
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
27,705 members
428 reviews
½ 4.3
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
29,519 members
428 reviews
4.1
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
34,107 members
520 reviews
3.8
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
22,444 members
240 reviews
3.8
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
19,974 members
260 reviews
4.1
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
17,088 members
167 reviews
3.9
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
14,480 members
143 reviews
4.1
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
14,442 members
137 reviews
½ 3.5
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Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story
by Stephen King
10,518 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,449 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
7,622 members
89 reviews
4.1
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
6,476 members
77 reviews
3.8
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
4,710 members
62 reviews
½ 4.3
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
4,170 members
78 reviews
4
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
1,536 members
26 reviews
4.1
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
by William Wordsworth
473 members
3.8
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Dead Poets Society [1989 film]
by Peter Weir
441 members
4 reviews
4.1
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The Odyssey
by Homer
50,829 members
444 reviews
4
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The Iliad
by Homer
38,135 members
373 reviews
4
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28,433 members
315 reviews
½ 4.4
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
25,289 members
327 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
24,258 members
366 reviews
4.1
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Confessions
by Saint Augustine
21,503 members
157 reviews
3.9
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
21,248 members
323 reviews
3.8
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The Republic
by Plato
21,148 members
138 reviews
3.9
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
16,521 members
361 reviews
3.9
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
12,323 members
169 reviews
3.9
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
10,939 members
494 reviews
4
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
10,681 members
208 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
9,563 members
64 reviews
4.1
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
9,094 members
75 reviews
4.1
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
8,830 members
278 reviews
4.1
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
7,850 members
88 reviews
4
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
7,504 members
55 reviews
4
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How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition
by Mortimer J. Adler
7,355 members
76 reviews
4
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
7,095 members
108 reviews
3.8
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by Daniel Goleman
6,703 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus
6,590 members
38 reviews
4
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Roots
by Alex Haley
6,504 members
90 reviews
½ 4.3
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Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
6,280 members
43 reviews
3.9
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The Abolition of Man
by C. S. Lewis
6,263 members
61 reviews
4
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City of God
by Saint Augustine
5,969 members
36 reviews
4
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The Analects
by Confucius
5,897 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,557 members
30 reviews
4.2
69
Politics
by Aristotle
5,540 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
70
The Last Days of Socrates
by Plato
5,459 members
23 reviews
4
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
5,234 members
73 reviews
4.1
72
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell
5,139 members
133 reviews
3.8
73
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
4,907 members
55 reviews
3.9
74
Poetics
by Aristotle
4,887 members
49 reviews
3.8
75
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
by William J. Bennett
4,859 members
19 reviews
3.9
76
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4,721 members
68 reviews
4
77
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
4,440 members
53 reviews
4.1
78
The Sea Wolf
by Jack London
4,210 members
54 reviews
3.9
79
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal al-Din Rumi
4,116 members
27 reviews
½ 4.3
80
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
4,025 members
43 reviews
4.1
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by Bart D. Ehrman
3,874 members
106 reviews
3.8
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
3,361 members
78 reviews
½ 3.5
83
The Portable Nietzsche
by Friedrich Nietzsche
3,278 members
8 reviews
4.2
84
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington
3,241 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
85
The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
by Huston Smith
3,230 members
25 reviews
4.1
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
3,127 members
40 reviews
½ 4.3
87
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
3,000 members
73 reviews
4.1
88
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
by Paul Kennedy
2,817 members
19 reviews
4
89
A Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume
2,778 members
16 reviews
3.9
90
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
by Ken Sande
2,770 members
12 reviews
4.2
91
The Dhammapada
by Anonymous
2,737 members
22 reviews
4.1
92
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville
2,538 members
49 reviews
½ 3.3
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Rhetoric
by Aristotle
2,359 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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Coma
by Robin Cook
2,316 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
by Shelby Foote
2,221 members
22 reviews
½ 4.5
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
2,210 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5
98
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by Daniel Yergin
2,180 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
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Darwin's Black Box
by Michael J. Behe
2,072 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6