Riaz Aqib Kohlar Novels: Complete List and Reading Guide

About this novel

Riaz Aqib Kohlar is one of the most searched Urdu novel writers on Crazy Fans of Novels. His range is unusual: he writes army action, historical epics, dark social novels, thrillers and warm family romances, often in very long novels that readers follow for weeks.

This guide covers a selection of his complete novels on our site, grouped by type, with a short note on what each one is about. Every novel can be read online in your browser or downloaded as a free PDF.

Epic and historical

Barda

An epic historical novel, thousands of pages long, set among the desert tribes of ancient Arabia before Islam. It opens with the birth of a tribal chief’s son in a camp on a trading journey. Start here if you want a novel to live in for weeks.

Army and action

Snipper

Told in the first person by a young Pakistani Army sniper, beginning with his very first mission near the border.

Bhagora

“The deserter”: a young recruit’s journey from the first painful weeks of basic training to the commando course.

Social novels and thrillers

Pasheman

“Regretful”: it begins in a university canteen, where Uswa, a rich man’s only daughter who says she hates men, humiliates Ammar, a clerk’s son, for loving her.

Janoon e Ishq

Two very different young men: one so dark-skinned that every family has turned him down, and one so handsome he lives off the rich girls who fall for him.

Daldal

An educated young man from a poor family, worn down by failed job interviews, takes a step that could pull him into a daldal (quicksand) he may never escape.

Rakhail

A dark social novel about a respectable girl from a poor mohalla whose life is ruined because a powerful local goon has decided she will be his.

Mutbadil

A short thriller set in the film world, about the famous actress Kalpana and an unknown girl who looks exactly like her.

Family romances

Adawat

Two cousins who can’t stand each other, Haani and Sauban, and a grandfather who has decided they will marry anyway.

Harf E Dua

A light, warm cousin story told by a young man about Zau, the girl he has known all his life.

Where to start

If you like action, start with Snipper or Bhagora. For a long, immersive read, try Barda. For a strong social story, try Pasheman or Daldal. For romance, start with Adawat.

See every title on the Riaz Aqib Kohlar novels page, or browse more army Urdu novels by other writers.