[This series of quick book reviews will now be updated only on my Instagram account @thebookjacket]
Book Bites is a series of personal book reviews in brief, curated by me, for busy bookworms like you. Serving a sneak peek of thoughts on an array of books to feed your soul. Pick one up to savour. Whichever your purposeful palate fancies.
General/Literary
Grief is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green
She Wore Red Trainers by Naima B Robert
Sugarbread by Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Islamic
A Commentary on Ibn Taymiyyah’s Essay on The Heart by Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
A Temporary Gift by Asmaa Hussein
Paragons of The Qur’an by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Muhammad, The Perfect Teacher by Sheikh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah
Revive Your Heart by Nouman Ali Khan
The Journey of the Strangers by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali & Abu Bakr al-Ajurri
The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity by Mohammed Faris
The Qur’an (new translation) by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
The Salah by Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al Albani
Non-Fiction
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
The Hapless Teacher’s Handbook by Phil Ball
The Joy of Less by Francine Jay
The Messenger by Tariq Ramadhan
The Sound of Sch by Danielle Lim
The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
This Is All I Have to Say by Swapan Seth
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Poetry
I Wrote Them For You by Mariam Yusuf
No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay
Shades of Islam by Rafey Habib
Syafakallah by The Vespa Rider
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Who Wants to Buy an Expanded Edition of a Book of Poems? by Gwee Li Sui
Past Reviews
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Love Is an Empty Barstool by Pooja Nansi
Me Migrant by Md Mukul Hossine
Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Ocean At The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Space Between The Raindrops by Justin Ker
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
[Quotes] Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
