Books

2019:

  • The Divine Reality, Hamza Tzortis 
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Houssaini
  • Becoming, Michelle Obama
  • Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
  • 12 Rules For Life, Jordan Peterson
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  • Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
  • The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena
  • Lost Connections, Johann Hari

2020:

  • Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
  • Deep Work, Cal Newport
  • I Shall Not Hate, Izzeldin Abuelaish
  • How to Stop Time, Matt Haig
  • The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena
  • An Unwanted Guest, Shari Lapena
  • Becoming Kareem, Kareem Abdul Jabbar
  • The Alchemy of Happiness, Al Ghazzali
  • Mythos, Stephen Fry
  • The Malay Dilemma, Che Det
  • An Eternal Challenge, Muhammad ‘Abdullah Drāz
  • A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough
  • Muhammad, Martin Lings

2021:

  • Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey
  • Letters to a Young Muslim, Omar Saif Ghobash
  • The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
  • The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad, Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri
  • On Palestine, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Frank Barat
  • Purification of the Soul, Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jaivziyya, al-‘Arabi Ben Razzuq, Ashraf
  • Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Imam Al-Nawawi: Timeless Prophetic Gems of Guidance and Wisdom, Jamal Ahmed Badi
  • Dear Beloved Son, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
  • The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd, Allan Dib
  • The Journey to Allah, Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
  • Al-Ubudiyyah: Being a True Slave of Allah, Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Halim Ibn Taymiyyah
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • Kekok, Akif Basri
  • Wonder, R. J. Palacio
  • The Defining Decade, Meg Jay
  • Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
  • Gut, Giulia Sanders, David Shaw
  • The Road to Mecca, Muhammad Asad

2022:

  • How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie
  • The Productive Muslim, Mohamed Faris
  • Enjoy Your Life, Dr Muhammad Al Arefi
  • The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger
  • The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
  • The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport
  • Working Backwards, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
  • Superforecasting, Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

2023:

  • Atomic Habits, James Clear
  • $100m Offers, Alex Hormozi
  • Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
  • The Pathless Path, Paul Millered
  • The Rich Employee, James Altucher
  • University of Berkshire Hathaway, Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn 
  • The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
  • Prediction Machines, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb (reading)