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THE SHELF / 5 books on women’s everyday terror to read this Halloween: The horror that persists

The violence is domestic, institutional, and often unnamed—carried out by people who look nothing like monsters.
31 October 2025, 13:45 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot

Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
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6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens

For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
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THE SHELF / 4 Bangla books with tender yet complex father figures

These paternal characters are not easy to love, nor can they love faultlessly themselves. Yet it is precisely this contradiction—their awkward tenderness, silent failures, and undeniable devotion—that makes them so achingly human
15 June 2025, 05:00 AM
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THE SHELF / Books for different types of readers on Eid

Eid-ul-Azha is right around the corner, which entails delicious meals, family gatherings, and a little extra downtime between all the Qurbani preparation and feasting.
4 June 2025, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / Book recommendations for different personality types

This year’s World Book Day theme, “Read Your Way,” invites readers to embrace their own paths, rhythms, and preferences regarding books
23 April 2025, 15:00 PM
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THE SHELF / If you like these books, read these

Sometimes, unearthing your next favourite book is only a simple measure of connecting the dots between what you have loved previously and what you might enjoy next.
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books to read while you’re sick

With cold waves sweeping the country, many of us have already succumbed to illnesses. For this list, we’ve compiled 5 books you could curl up with while on a sickbed
7 January 2025, 13:30 PM
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Human virtue questioned in the not-so-small things

At a time when everyone is grappling with financial instability while combating the icy spree, Bill is grateful enough to have survived another year with his wife Eileen and five daughters.
15 December 2023, 14:00 PM
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The alter ego of Agatha Christie

Absorbing these books is like viewing the world through the writer’s eyes—the pain she felt, the love she did not receive and the manner she perceived the people around her.
20 September 2023, 15:55 PM
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5 books for readers with an appetite

The Hundred Foot Journey is the story of an immigrant Indian family who sets up a restaurant right in front of a famous French relais and the feud it ensues.
11 September 2023, 22:25 PM
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6 wonderful books to celebrate the Women in Translation month

‘Women in Translation’ is an all-inclusive, international project that aims to terminate the continual discrimination faced by non-English female authors, and gives them due recognition.
30 August 2023, 18:00 PM
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5 travel books to get you in the mood for travelling

It must be surreal to observe the same moon from another destination of the world, from a place that is unfathomable to you, that for a long time seemed like a stranger.
14 July 2023, 08:55 AM
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Flesh in ruins

It is the disease that maintains the upper hand in the plot. A jarring voice of its own, the toxins spilling across the pages in bold, chaotic words.
18 May 2023, 07:33 AM
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5 books exploring the found-family trope in fiction

A cast of strangers come together as a family based on their common experiences, situations, and relationships rather than their kinship or blood relations.
17 May 2023, 12:55 PM
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5 books to read for International Workers’ Day

Concentrating on women workers from Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan, Women and Work in South Asia also tackles the advancement of individual corporate sectors due to the involvement of women workers.
1 May 2023, 04:30 AM
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Only books and longing for this year’s Eid

Since I did not have a busy itinerary on Eid days, books were my unwitting companions
23 April 2023, 09:13 AM
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5 books to present as Eid gifts

Though the month of Ramadan is nearing its end, it brings with it the glories of Eid celebrations, and the perfect time to shower loved ones with gifts.
18 April 2023, 05:00 AM
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6 books to enjoy the spirit of Pahela Baishakh

These books, among many others, can help readers feel the spirit of the Bangali new year in all its vibrant colours
13 April 2023, 08:33 AM
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How reading the Quran turned from a hobby into a habit

Every evening, after coming home from school, the first thing I would do is sit with the Quran and an English translation of it that my father had on his shelves.
30 March 2023, 12:45 PM
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What to read to feel the magic of spring

Regardless of the ambience of these part-sunny-part gloomy days, there is always a book to suit to the mood
27 March 2023, 12:45 PM
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5 new books that explore family life in fiction

Among the new books we’re excited to read this season, these March releases hold special promise. 
22 March 2023, 13:00 PM
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To survive is to hope, in Nasreen Jahan’s ‘Urukku’

Originally published in 1993, 'Urukku' by Nasreen Jahan is a dive into the life of a young woman and a powerful commentary on human need.
12 March 2023, 13:00 PM
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5 mystery thriller books to look out for at Boi Mela

Police officer Mirza Sharaf is hardly convinced of the evidence found and the discovery of the victim's journal leads to a series of unnerving revelations
23 February 2023, 13:00 PM
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