See here for methodology.

Title	Author	Goodreads raters	LibraryThing owners
White Teeth	Zadie Smith	158,354	13,672
Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie	124,297	13,922
Brick Lane	Monica Ali	33,807	5,351
The Hungry Tide	Amitav Ghosh	18,501	1,828
The Henna Wars	Adiba Jaigirdar	27,873	471
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty	Muhammad Yunus	10,115	1,284
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating	Adiba Jaigirdar	32,040	397
The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	8,408	839

Much more than any country so far, the literature that Goodreads and LibraryThing users identify with Bangladesh is largely about the emigrant experience, or about Bangladesh viewed from India. Since I have to exclude a book if it’s not at least 50% set in the country of interest, that actually knocks out seven of the top eight books on GR/LT set in Bangladesh.

White Teeth and Brick Lane are both set in London, and The Henna Wars and Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating are both set in Dublin. Midnight’s Children is mainly set in India, though with a memorable section in Bangladesh. The Shadow Lines is about the consequences of the creation of Bangladesh, but mainly told from Calcutta and London. The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarban islands, but mainly on the Indian side. I should say that these all sound like excellent books, and I’ll keep an eye out for them.

But today’s winner is the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, and how he founded the micro-credit Grameen Bank to fight poverty in Bangladesh and elsewhere. You can get it here. The Bangladeshi authorities have been persecuting him lately, and I hope that they stop.

The top fiction book on GR/LT metrics which is by a Bangladeshi writer and mostly set in Bangladesh is The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan.

Next: Russia.

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