WAgunpakhi is a novel by Bangladeshi writer Hasan Azizul Huq. First published in 2006, the novel was awarded Prothom Alo book of the year prize in 2007 and Ananda Purashkar in 2008.
WBanalata Sen is a collection of poems by Jibanananda Das. During Das's lifetime, it was published twice: first time in Poush 1349 Bengali calendar with a cover by Sambhu Shaha including 12 poems, and second time in Srabon 1359 Bengali calendar an enlarged version with a cover by Satyajit Ray including 30 poems. Das named the volume after the poem: "Banalata Sen", one of Das's finest poems, certainly his most popular. The enlarged edition published by Signet Press was awarded in 1953 at the Nikhil Banga Rabindra Sahitya Sammelan. The recurring themes in the poems of this volume are love, nature, time, temporariness of life and love, etc. Above all, a historical sense pervades everything. The names that frequent in many poems are Suchetana, Suranjana, Sudarshana and Syamali and these women are deemed above or beyond women in general. In these poems, the love Das talks about crosses the boundaries of time and place and sometimes seems impersonal too.
WThe Black Coat is a historical novel by Bangladeshi-Canadian author Neamat Imam. It is "a meditation on power, greed and the human cost of politics." The Sunday Guardian commented that it is "destined to be a future classic" and will be used as the "gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history."
WEkattorer Dingulee is an autobiography by Martyr-Mother Jahanara Imam based on her experiences of the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.
WA Golden Age is the first novel of the Bangladesh-born writer Tahmima Anam. It tells the story of the Bangladesh War of Independence through the eyes of one family. The novel was awarded the prize for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Guardian First Book Award. The first chapter of the novel appeared in the January 2007 edition of Granta magazine.
WThe Good Muslim is a novel by Tahmima Anam. This novel is a sequel to her debut novel A Golden Age and spans the year from 1984 to 1985, with occasional flashbacks to the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It is a story about faith and family shadowed by a war. The family that has taken active part in the war of independence has now to face the challenges of peace, within and outside.
WKaragarer Rojnamcha is the second memoir by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding father and the 1st President of Bangladesh. Bangla Academy published the book on the occasion of Mujib's 98th birth anniversary.
WMaa is a novel by the Bangladeshi author Anisul Hoque. An English translation, titled Freedom's Mother, was published by Palimpsest from New Delhi in 2012. The novel entered the Prothom Alo's list of the best ten creative books in Bengali of the 1st decade of the 21st century and the list of the best ten creative books in Bengali on the liberation war of Bangladesh. The novel was published in Maithili too.
WMashrafe is a 2016 Bengali biography book written by Debbrata Mukherjee. The book follows Bangladeshi cricketer Mashrafe Mortaza, from his early life to his cricket career.
WNaree is a 1992 Bangladeshi treatise book about feminism written by Humayun Azad. The book was considered incendiary, and was banned on 19 November 1995, by the government of Bangladesh. Five years later, though, in 2000, the ban was lifted, following a legal battle that Azad won. The High Court of Bangladesh decided that the prohibition was invalid.
WPak Sar Jamin Sad Bad is a 2004 Bangladeshi novel, written by Humayun Azad. The novel is based on an imagined Islamic fundamentalist political party that wants to make Bangladesh a Sharia law based Islamic state.
WPronominalization in Bengali is a 1983 published version of a thesis about Bengali grammar written in English by linguistic Humayun Azad. The written was started in 1976, during his doctoral in Edinburgh, Scotland. The book was initially published by the University of Dhaka in 1983, and in 2010 it was published by Agamee Prakashani, Dhaka.
WThe Unfinished Memories is the autobiography by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding father of Bangladesh.