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Books set in Pakistan:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson
The Crow Eaters: A Novel by Bapsi Sidhwa
The Good Son: A Novel by Michael Gruber
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by Benazir Bhutto
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer
The Writing on My Forehead: A Novel by Nafisa Haji
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Chef: A Novel by Jaspreet Singh
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown
Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie
Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan by Ali Eteraz
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali
Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle
The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples
In the Name of Honor: A Memoir by Mukhtar Mai
Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar
Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa
My Sisters Made of Light by Jacqueline St. Joan
Granta 112: Pakistan by John Freeman
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul
Pashtun Tales From The Pakistan-Afghan Frontier by Aisha Ahmad
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf
Daughter of the East: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
Tender Hooks: A Novel by Moni Mohsin
City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore by Bapsi Sidhwa
Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein
Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building by Laura A. Ring
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women by Muneeza Shamsie
Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women by Aamer Hussein
Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani Style by Fawzia Afzal-Khan
No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women by Shahla Haeri
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Sadika's Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq
In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie
Beyond the Cayenne Wall: Collection of Short Stories by Shaila M. Abdullah
More Books Set in Pakistan:
The House of Bilqis: A Novel by Azhar Abidi (AKA "Twilight")
An Act of Treason by Jack Coughlin
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
Not Easily Washed Away: Memoirs Of A Muslim's Daughter by Brian Arthur Levene
Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan
The Last Man on the Mountain by Jennifer Jordan
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2
Pakistan on the Brink by Ahmed Rashid
Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself by Pamela Constable
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi by Steve Inskeep
Noon by Aatish Taseer
Captives of Minara by Eric E. Wright
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office
Butterfly Season
Haveli
The Contract
Seasons of Silence
The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammad Hanif
Edhi : A Mirror To The Blind by Tehmina Durrani
More books set in Pakistan: 
37 Bridges and Other Stories by Daniel Defoe
The 786 Cybercafe by Bina Shah
The Accidental Fiancee by Zeenat Mahal
The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan by Tahira Naqvi
Back to Pakistan: A Fifty-Year Journey by Leslie Noyes Mass
A Bad Woman's Story: A Translation of Buri Aurat Ki Katha by Kishwar Naheed
The Baloch Who Is Not Missing & Others Who Are by Mohammed Hanif
The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore 
Basti by Intizar Hussain
Beautiful from this Angle by Maha Khan Phillips
Belonging by Sameem Ali
Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging by Marilyn R. Gardner
Beyond the North-West Frontier by Maureen Lines
Bird of Chaman, Flower of the Khyber by Matthieu Aikins
Bitter Fruit: The Very Best of Saadat Hasan Manto by Saadat Hasan Manto
Black Margins by Saadat Hasan Manto
Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani
Blessings and Other Short Stories by Bina Shah
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam
Boy of Fire and Earth by Sami Shah
Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy by Sara Suleri Goodyear
The Bracelet by Roberta Gately
Broken Bangles by Hanifa Deen
Bullets and Train by Adeerus Ghayan
Haven't read a lot from Pakistan but two good books from already mentioned authors are missing in the above lists:Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
Ibil by Adeerus Ghayan
More books set in Pakistan:
Cactus Town: And Other Stories by Aamer Hussein
A Chronicle of the Peacock. Stories Of Partition, Exile And Lost Memories 
The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein
The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali
Crossing Over: Partition Literature From India, Pakistan, And Bangladesh
Cuckoo and the Escape of the Little Elephant by Sajjad Haider
The Death of Sheherzad by Intizar Hussain
Devotion and Defiance: My Fight for Justice for Women by Humaira Awais Shahid
The Diary of a Social Butterfly by Moni Mohsin
Disgraced by Saira Ahmed
The Distance of a Shout by Kishwar Naheed
Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction by Attia Hosain
Dizzy in Karachi: A Journey to Pakistan by Maliha Masood
The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad
Duty Free by Moni Mohsin
More books set in Pakistan
Edhi: A Mirror To The Blind by Tehmina Durrani
The End Of Innocence by Moni Mohsin
The Exiles by Qurratulain Hyder
Far from My Father's House by Jill McGivering
Fire Boy by Sami Shah (1st book in the Djinn-Son Duology)
Fire of Love by Adeerus Ghayan
Flower On A Grave: Poems by Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi
Four Walls and a Black Veil by Fahmida Riaz
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
The Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
Happy Things In Sorrow Times by Tehmina Durrani
Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi
Hoops of Fire: Fifty Years of Fiction by Pakistani Women by Aamer Hussein
The House Of Fear by Ibn-e-Safi
House of the Sun by Meira Chand
How It Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair
I Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis Sheikh
I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi
I'll Find My Way by Maniza Naqvi
Images in my Mirror: Autobiography of a Sindhi Poet by Attiya Dawood
Imam by Abdullah Hussain
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
An Infidel in Paradise by S.J. Laidlaw
Insomnia by Aamer Hussein
Islamabad Blues Letters from Pakistan by Ulrich Ladurner
Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words by Maniza Naqvi
The Karachi Deception by Shatrujeet Nath
Karachi Halwa by Prabhu Dayal
Karachi, You're Killing Me! by Saba Imtiaz
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Lahore: Tales Without End by Majid Sheikh
The Last Day in Karachi: Through the Ring of Fire by Alia Khan-Hudson
A Life in Words by Ismat Chughtai
Life of a Lotus by Adeerus Ghayan
Lifting the Veil by Ismat Chughtai
Look at the City from Here: Karachi Writings by Asif Farrukhi
Losing It: Tales of Karachi by Imran Saqib
Manto : Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Mass Transit by Maniza Naqvi
A Matter of Detail by Maniza Naqvi
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
Mirror To The Sun by Aamer Hussein
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition by Saadat Hasan Manto
Mule Train by Huw Francis
My Brother by Fatima Jinnah
My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani
O City of Lights: Selected Poetry and Biographical Notes by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
On Air by Maniza Naqvi
Pakistan, Piece by Piece by Stephen Philip Cohen
Partitions by Amit Majmudar
The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West by Imran Ahmad
Poems by Faiz by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
The Quilt: Stories by Ismat Chughtai
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism by Maajid Nawaz
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Refuge by N.G. Osborne (1st book in Refuge series)
The Reluctant Mullah by Sagheer Afzal
The Return of the Butterfly by Moni Mohsin
River of Fire: Novel by Qurratulain Hyder
Saffron Dreams by Shaila M. Abdullah
Salar Jang's Passion by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
The Scriptwriter by Adeerus Ghayan
A Season for Martyrs by Bina Shah
Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
The Secret Arts by Azma Dar
Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed
The Seventh Door and Other Stories by Initzar Husain
Shahana by Rosanne Hawke
Shining Mountain by Peter Boardman
Short Stories from Pakistan: Fifty Years of Pakistani Short Stories by Aamer Hussein
Slum Child by Bina Shah
So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan by Samia Waheed Altaf
The Song of Our Swampland by Manzu Islam
Stay with Me by Maniza Naqvi
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Story of Noble Rot by Uzma Aslam Khan
A Stranger in My Own Country East Pakistan 1969-71 by Khadim Hussain Raja
Survival Tips for Lunatics by Shandana Minhas
The Swan's Wife by Aamer Hussein
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker
Teen Titans, Vol. 15: Prime of Life by J.T. Krul
Their Language of Love by Bapsi Sidhwa
Thin Air by Greg Child
Thinner Than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan
This Other Salt by Aamer Hussein
Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman
Toba Tek Singh: Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Tunnel Vision by Shandana Minhas
Turquoise by Aamer Hussein
Twilight by Azhar Abidi
The Unicorn And The Dancing Girl: Poems Of Faiz Ahmad Faiz: With Original Text
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
More books set in Pakistan:
The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria
Where the Indus Is Young: A Winter in Baltistan by Dervla Murphy
Whispers of the Desert by Fatima Bhutto
Without Dreams by Shahbano Bilgrami
Women of Pakistan: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? by Farida Shaheed
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
The Yellow Turban by Charlotte Jay
You are Invited by Adeerus Ghayan
The Young Wife and Other Stories by Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Here's another suggestion: LOVE ME DO (H. A. Kay). I'm looking for reviews please!
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