Jilani Banu is a well-known contemporary fiction writer and novelist, his role in strengthening the tradition of fiction in Urdu literature is unforgettable. She not only reflected the best of social realism in her writings but also the feminism movement that was founded at the literary level for the welfare of women in the subcontinent.

Sohail Ahmad, Muntakhib Adbi Istalahat, (Lahore: GC University, 2005)

Jeelani Bano, Roshni Ke Meenar, (Lahore: Naya Idara, 1958)

Jeelani Bano, Majmua Jeelani Bano Afsanay, (Lahore: Sang e Meel Publications, 2017)

Jeelani Bano, Sach Ke Siwa, (Delhi: Educational Publishing House, 1997)

Jeelani Bano, Paraya Ghar, (Haiderabad, Urdu Markaz, December 1979)

Iqra Toheed, Jeelani Bano Kay Afsanvi Kirdar, (Lahore: Fiction House, 2018)

Irfan Munshi, Jeelani Bano: Hayat Aur Karnamay, (Sri Nagar: Kashmir University, 2005)