Tashie Bhuiyan Books in Order

Tashie Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi-American writer from Queens, New York. She has described herself as a New Yorker through and through, and that city feeling runs all through her work. She studied public relations at St. John's University, but long before publishing entered the picture, books were already doing important work in her life.

As a kid, she was a serious reader. She has spoken about being in ESL in elementary school and how reading helped her English grow quickly. Summers around books mattered too, including time spent at the library where her mother worked, and that mix of reading, routine, and curiosity helped turn storytelling into something personal.

She was writing stories by sixth grade, and she still remembers the school assignment that produced her proud six-page first piece of fiction.

The road from there was not neat. In college, she tried writing a novel and realized that loving stories and building one from scratch were very different things. She kept at it anyway, learning craft as she went, writing around classes and internships, and finding community through programs like Author Mentor Match. By the time she started the book that became Counting Down with You, she had a much firmer sense of what kind of writer she wanted to be.

That debut arrived in 2021. Counting Down with You follows Karina Ahmed, a Bangladeshi-American teen who gets pulled into a fake-dating scheme while trying to live by her family's rules. The book quickly showed what Bhuiyan does well: tender romance, funny banter, real anxiety, and the messy push and pull between love, duty, and figuring out your own voice.

She kept building from there. A Show for Two sends an aspiring filmmaker across New York City with an indie film star and turns the city into part of the love story. Stay with My Heart leans into music, grief, and guilt as a teen tries to help the band she accidentally hurt. In I’ll Pretend You’re Mine, a rising pop star gets caught in a fake-dating PR stunt and has to sort out public image from private self.

Then came Right as Rain, a coming-of-age story with a light speculative twist. Its heroine, Megh Rashid, is followed by a rain cloud tied to her emotions after a lightning strike, which lets Bhuiyan bring mental health struggles onto the page in a literal, visible way. Even when the premise gets unusual, the emotional center stays familiar: young people trying to name what hurts, what they want, and what they are willing to change.

New York is never just a backdrop in these books.

Bhuiyan has said that growing up in Queens shaped her sense of what feels natural on the page, and it shows. Her stories tend to include Bangladeshi characters alongside a broader range of cultures, religions, genders, and sexualities, because that is the world she knows. Readers who connect with her work often come for the swoony setups, the fake dating, the creative kids, and the city energy, then stay for the quieter thread underneath it all: girls learning to claim agency, even when family, fear, or grief make that hard.

She still describes herself as a New Yorker through and through. She has said she loves traveling, going to concerts, and bothering her cat, Zuko. That mix of city energy and personal detail feels like a good match for her fiction, which keeps returning to young people trying to speak up, grow up, and take ownership of their lives.