Huma Waqas Novels: Complete List and Reading Guide

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This is the complete list of Huma Waqas novels on our site, including Maqsoom, Ajab Bandhan, Husna and Charagh Sham Say Pehly, with a note on each.

Huma Waqas is one of the most searched Urdu novel writers on our site. Her stories are mostly long family romances and dramas: weddings that go wrong, old havelis full of secrets, proud heroes and heroines who refuse to bend. Many of them open with a single dramatic scene that pulls you straight in.

Here is a guide to the complete Huma Waqas novels on Crazy Fans of Novels, grouped by type, with a short note on how each one begins. Every novel can be read online in your browser or downloaded as a free PDF.

Wedding and marriage romances

Maqsoom

Adeena is dressed and waiting for her nikah when her sister runs in with a note: the groom, Meesam, has run away. Her calm, dry-eyed reaction sets the tone for the whole story. Maqsoom means “what is destined”.

Ajab Bandhan

A light, funny wedding romance. Daniyal is dragged to a family shaadi to meet the girl his mother has chosen, while a mischievous girl named Maham keeps making his life miserable there.

Dil Galti Kar Baitha Hai

Daneen Sikandar sits silent in a car beside her new husband, the superstar Zardad Haroon, a man she can’t stand. The title means “the heart has made a mistake”.

Mahween

Mahween Jahanzeb, twenty-five, believes she has found the man she was always searching for, just as her father starts looking at rishtay for her.

Family dramas and sagas

Charagh Sham Say Pehly

A long family saga set in 1986 in Mithan, a small Punjabi village, around the grand Haveli Hakim Qasr and a family history that goes back to Partition.

Husna

A dark prologue in a haveli, where a powerful man takes a newborn away from its mother, then a jump to the poor streets of Lahore. One of her most dramatic novels.

Mohay Piya Milan Ki Aas

Afreen tries patiently to win the heart of Jaaj, a hurt and angry little boy, while a quiet tension grows between her and his father, Najaf.

Romance with a bitter past

Hirmaan Naseeb Na Thay

A candle-lit meeting in a dark kitchen after midnight brings Nudba and Taraz face to face, two people with an unfinished, bitter history.

Deed e Qalb

A romance set in Brighton, England, that opens like a film: a girl racing on a bicycle, a handsome man getting ready, and a camera lens pointed at a window across the street.

Short story (afsana)

Kali

A short afsana that moves between a struggling father of four daughters and a loving young couple, two homes whose stories slowly come together.

Where to start

New to Huma Waqas? Start with Maqsoom, her most searched novel, or Ajab Bandhan if you want something light and funny. For a long, absorbing family story, try Charagh Sham Say Pehly or Husna.

See every title on the Huma Waqas novels page, or browse more romantic Urdu novels and our Ana Ilyas novels list.