Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom was initially published in 2020 by publisher Alfred A. Knopf. The novel follows a 28-year-old PhD candidate at Stanford University named Gifty. Though Gifty is an intelligent woman with a tremendous future ahead of...

Ling Ma's Severance was initially published in August 2018. Ma's novel follows a young woman named Candace Chen, a woman who works in an unfulfilling role selling Bible-related products. The novel follows Chen's life before a pandemic that is...

Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station was originally published in 2014. A graphic novel, Tokyo Ueno Station tells the story of a man named Kazu, who was born in 1933 in a town in Japan called Fukushima. Incidentally, Kazu was born in the same year as...

Annie Ernaux's The Years was initially published in French in 2008. Despite being an autobiography, the book is told in third-person point of view. In the book, Ernaux chronicles her life from 1941 to 2006. It is simultaneously an exploration of...

Two Degrees is a young adult fiction novel written by bestselling American author Alan Gratz. It was published by Scholastic Inc. in October of 2022. Gratz tackles issues curbing humanity in our current times and historically. He focuses on...

The Door of No Return was initially published in September of 2022 by Little, Brown and Company. It follows an eleven-year-old named Kofi Offin, who has intense dreams of water and the Earth. Kofi often hears the call from the river from his...

Tomorrow When the War Began was initially published 1993 by Pan Macmillan's Australian imprint. Marsden's second novel (but his first in quite a few years), Tomorrow When the War Began is described by the publisher as a "young adult invasion...

The Boys from Biloxi is set to be released in October of 2022 and will be published by author John Grisham's longtime publisher, Doubleday.

The second of five children, John Grisham was born in February 2015 to Ronda and John Ray Grisham, a...

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” is a poem by Tracy K. Smith which appears in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Conceived as a tribute to the author’s father who had worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the collection is...

"Ghazal" is a historical poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was published in the Wade in the Water collection by Graywolf Press in 2018. The collection won the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the 2018 Forward Prizes for...

"Sci-Fi" is a poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was included in the Life on Mars collection published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. The collection is a lament for the poet's father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope at the National...

"The Journey" was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "The Journey" is one of Oliver's most widely read and well-respected works; it is a significant part...

"The Black Walnut," Mary Oliver's poem was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. The poem, which many have considered to be semi-autobiographical, is widely...

"Good-bye Fox," Mary Oliver's poem, was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "Good-bye Fox," one of the most cited works of Devotions, is an exploration of...

Mary Oliver's "The Swan" was originally published in 2010 in her collection of poems entitled Swan: Poems and Prose. "The Swan," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Oliver is best known...

Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" was initially published in 2004 in her collection of poems entitled Wild Geese: Selected Poems. "Wild Geese," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Much of...

Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" was originally published in 1992 in her collection of poems entitled New and Selected Poems. "The Summer Day," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a part of that collection.

"The Summer Day" is a...

R.F. Kuang's Babel was published in 2022 by HarperCollins. The year is 1828, and cholera has run roughshod in Canton, Wales, leaving Robin Swift orphaned. Desperate and alone, Robin is brought to London by mysterious Professor Lovell to train in...