Book List

Ruman’s Top 3 Favourites:

  • Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
  • The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason

Currently Reading

  • Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
  • Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus – Sherman Jackson
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford

Psychology

  • The Dilemma of Muslim Psychologists – Malik Badri
  • Unwanted – Jay Stringer
  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
  • Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
  • Good Morning, Monster – Catherine Gildiner
  • Abu Zayd al-Balkhi’s Sustenance of the Soul: The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of A Ninth Century Physician – Malik Badri

Self-Development

  • Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
  • Never Finished – David Goggins
  • Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
  • Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  • Mastery – Robert Greene
  • How to Be Yourself – Ellen Hendrickson
  • The Gifts of Imperfection – Brené Brown
  • Managing Oneself – Peter Drucker
  • Disrupt You – Jay Samit
  • Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science – Atul Gawande

Investing and Business

  • Money: Master the Game – Tony Robbins
  • Antifragile – Nassim Taleb
  • One Up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  • Trading in the Zone – Mark Douglas
  • The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason
  • Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
  • Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard – Mark Minervini
  • Think and Trade Like a Champion – Mark Minervini
  • Mindset Secrets for Winning – Mark Minervini

Autobiographies and Memoirs

  • Nelson Mandela Autobiography – Nelson Mandela
  • Phil Jackson: Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
  • Guantánamo Diary – Mohamedou Ould Slahi
  • Frederick Douglass Autobiography – Frederick Douglass
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
  • Armed with Good Intentions – Wallo267

Islamic History & Religious Studies

  • Lost Islamic History – Firas Alkhateeb
  • The Money Handbook – Mufti Aasim Rashid
  • Prophet Muhammad Seerah
  • Don’t Be Sad – Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
  • The Devil’s Deception – Ibn al-Jawzi

Literature

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde