CSS (Books and their Authors)

1. Essay
Daily Dawn (editorials )
Essay sub-section from CSS Forum
Read Essays by famous English Essayists like Francis Bacon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph
Addison, Lord Macaulay, Bertrand Russel, Charles Dickens etc. (internet)
Read top 10 non-fiction ebooks (freely available on internet)

2. Eng. General
Exploring the world of English by Syed Saadat Ali Shah
For vocabulary: Vocabulary advantage by Japinder Gill (PEARSON publishers)
Caravan Precis writingby A B Jasra, Ilmi series of Direct and indirect, passive and active
voice.

3. EDS
EDS books by Dr.Rabnawaz and Mian Shafiq.

4. Pak Affairs (3 books)
Pakistan affairs by M. Ikram Rabani
Rethinking Pakistan affairs by Saeed Ahmad butt (a concise and comprehensive book by
advance publishers)
Any one book from following: they are historians need to be referenced in the paper
Modern Muslim India & the birth of Pakistan by S.M.Ikram
The making of Pakistan by K.K.Aziz
Pakistan affairs book by I.H.Qureshi
Pakistan the formative phase by Khalid bin Saeed

5. Islamiat
For English
Dawn Friday feature
Islam the misunderstood religion by Muhammad Qutab.
Islam at a glance by Sadruddin Islahi
Islamiat book by Prof.Hameedullah

For Urdu
Islami nazriya Hayat by Prof.Khursheed
Noor Islamiat lazmi by Hafiz Rana Abdul Saboor, Al-fouzi publishers
Officers academy Islamiat urdu notes

6. Current Affairs
DAWN + Internet
Bi monthly Contemporary affairs by Imtiaz Shahid
Monthly Jahangirs World Times
Bi-monthly Current affairs by Dr. Safdar
Journalism
Exploring Journalism by Mirza Muhammad Yousuf
Journalism for all by Dr. Mehdi Hassan

Geography
For Physical geography
1. Sarfraz Ahmed Bajwa
2. Alan Strahler or De Blij
For human geography
1. Human, Economic and Regional geography by Imran Bashir
For geography of Pakistan
Fazal-e-Kareem khan
General geography: physical and human geography
By Goh Cheng Leong
Oxford Geography Atlas