I decided to read more frequently in 2011 and first kept track of the books I read in 2012. In 2012, I wanted to read at least 35 books, these are the books I actually ended up reading:
- The Four Agreements-Don Miguel Ruiz
- Love, InshAllah-Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi
- As a Friend-Forrest Gander
- Seriously…I’m Kidding-Ellen DeGeneres
- The Happiness of Pursuit-Shimon Edelman
- The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
- September 12: Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero-Gregory Smithsimon
- Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins
- Because of Winn-Dixie-Kate DiCamillo
- The Little Prince-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Tale of Despereaux-Kate DiCamillo
- Mockingjay-Suzanne Collins
- The Idiot’s Guide To Understanding Islam-Yahiya Emerick
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom-Jonathan Haidt
- Have a little faith-Mitch Albom
- In The Light Of A Blessed Tree: Illuminations of Islamic Belief, Practice, and History-Timothy J. Gianotti
- The Time Keeper-Mitch Albom
- How Rich People Think-Steve Siebold
- What The Dog Saw-Malcolm Gladwell
- Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities-Alexandra Robbins
- On Being Muslim: Finding A Religious Path In The World Today-Farid Esack
- The BFG-Roald Dahl
- Way Of The Peaceful Warrior-Dan Millman
- Islam in America-Jane I. Smith
- StrengthsFinder 2.0-Tom Rath
Here are the books I have read in 2013:
- Faitheist-Chris Stedman
- All American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim-edited by Wajahat Ali & Zahra Suratwala
- It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be-Paul Arden
- American Dervish-Ayad Akhtar
- The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey-Muhammad Ali
- Poems From Iqbal-V.G. Kiernan
- Tulip in the Desert: A Selection of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal-Mustansir Mir
- The First Muslim-Lesley Hazleton
- Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restriction and Resistance-Anissa Helie and Homa Hoodfar
- Planet of the Blind-Stephen Kuusisto
- Reclaim your Heart-Yasmin Mogahed
- Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time-Karen Armstrong
- Qur’an and Woman-Amina Wadud
- Sacred Ground-Eboo Patel
- How to Read a Book-Mortimer Adler
- Beyond Tolerance-Gustav Niebuhr