ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বইগুলো নিয়ে আলোচনা রয়েছে দিব্যেন্দু দ্বীপ লিখিত বই লামিয়া, প্রিলিমিনারি ইংরেজি সাহিত্য এবং ইংরেজি সাহিত্য ও সাহিত্যিক বই তিনটিতে। তিনটি বই তিন ধরনের হলেও যে কোনো একটি বই থেকে আপনি ইংরেজি সাহিত্য সম্পর্কে মোটামুটি একটি স্বচ্ছ ধারণা পাবেন। এখানে বইটি থেকে পোস্ট মডার্নিজম পিরিয়ডের বইগুলো সম্পর্কে ধারণা দেয়া হল।
Important Post-Modernism Literature
1. The Grass Is Singing (Novel, 1950) by Doris May Lessing (1919-2013)
2. The Labyrinth of Solitude (Novel, 1950)by Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
3. Waiting for Godot (Absurdist play, 1953) by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989)
4. Lord of the flies (Novel, 1954) by William Golding (1911-1993)
5. Lolita (Novel, 1955) by Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977)
6. The Recognitions (Novel, 1955) by William Gaddis (1922-1998)
7. Waiting for the Mahatma (Novel, 1955) by R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
8. Train to Pakistan (Novel, 1956) by Khushwant Singh (1915-2014)
9. Seize the Day (Novel, 1956) by Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
10. The Lion and the Jewel (Play, 1959) by Wole Soyinka (Born 1934)
11. Infinite Jest (Novel, 1960) by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Novel, 1961) by Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
13. Catch-22 (Novel, 1961) by Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
14. Ficciones (Short story, 1962) by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel, 1967) by Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
16. Slaughterhouse-Five (Novel, 1969) by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
17. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Poem) by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012)
18. Conversation in the cathedral (Novel, 1969) by Mario Vargas Llosa (Born 1936)
19. Howl (1955), September on Jessore Road (Poem, 1971) by Allen Ginsberg (Born 1926) 186. The Bluest Eye (Novel, 1970) by Toni Morrison (Born 1931)
20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Novel, 1972) by Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
21. Gravity’s Rainbow (Novel, 1973) by Thomas Pynchon (Born 1937)
22. My Story (Ente Katha, 1973) by Kamala Das (1934-2009)
23. Blood and Guts in High School (Novel, 1978) by Kathy Acker (1947-1997)
24. Games at Twilight (1978) by Anita Desai (Born 1937)
25. Orientalism (Hisory, 1978) by Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003)
26. Waiting for the Barbarians (Novel, 1980) by J. M. Coetzee (Born 1940)
27. Sixty Stories (Short stories, 1981) by Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
28. The Piano Teacher (Novel, 1983) by Elfriede Jelinek (Born 1946)
29. Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Novel, 1988) by David Markson (1927-2010)
30. American Psycho (Novel, 1991) by Bret Easton Ellis (Born 1966)
31. The God of Small Things (Novel, 1997) by Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Born 1961)
32. Birthday Letters (Poetry collection, 1998) by Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
33. House of Leaves (Novel, 2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski (Born 1966)
34. The Corrections (Novel, 2001) by Jonathan Earl Franzen (Born, 1959)
35. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Novel, 2000) by Michael Chabon (Born 1963)
36. White Teeth (Novel, 2000) by Zadie Smith (Born 1975)
37. Atonement (Novel, 2001) by Ian Russell McEwan (Born, 1948)
38. Middlesex (Novel, 2002) by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (Born 1960)
39. The Known World (Histirical novel, 2003) by Edward Paul Jones (born 1950)
40. Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Novella, 2004) by Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (1927-2014)
41. The Great Enigma (Poetry, 2004) by Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (1931-2015)
42. Gilead (Novel, 2004) by Marilynne Summers Robinson (Born 1943)
43. Half of a Yellow Sun (Novel, 2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Born 1977)
44. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wilde (Novel, 2007) by Junot Díaz (December 31, 1968)
45. The Museum of Innocence (Novel, 2008) by Ferit Orhan Pamuk (Born 1952)
46. The White Tiger (Novel, 2008) by Aravind Adiga (Born 1974)
47. Wolf Hall (Historical novel, 2009) by Dame Hilary Mary Mantel (Born 1952)
48. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Novel, 2010) by Jennifer Egan (Born 1962)
49. Dear Life (Story Collection, 2012) by Alice Ann Munro (Born 1931)
50. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Novel, 2012) by Ben Fountain
অন্য যুগের অালোচিত সমালোচিত এবং বিখ্যাত বইগুলো সম্পর্কেও ধারবাহিকভাবে আলোচিত হবে ফলোআপনিউজে। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যিক ও সাহিত্যিক বইটিতে প্রতিটি বই নিয়ে সামান্য আলোচনা রয়েছে। লামিয়া বইটিতে শুধু তালিকাটি পাওয়া যাবে বইয়ের পরিশিষ্টে।
