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Originally published in 1970, Swords and Deviltry is a collection of tales by Fritz Lieber featuring his most famous characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Lieber is the author who actually coined the term “sword and sorcery” for the fantasy...

Set in 1942 and published in 2017, Supriya Kelkar's novel Ahimsa received overwhelmingly positive reviews upon release. In their review of the novel, Kirkus Reviews wrote that "This 2015 New Visions Award winner offers a complex narrative and...

Malorie is a post-apocalyptic novel written by American writer Josh Malerman. It was published in July 2021 by Del Rey Books. It is the sequel to Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box which was published in 2014.

In the first installment, an unknown and...

Although Escape from Hat, which was published in 2011, was written for a middle school audience, the graphic novel has gained a cult following from people of all ages. The novel tells the whimsical but dark story of dueling "lucky" rabbit (named...

True Spirit is an autobiography published by Jessica Watson in 2010.

In October 2009, Australian teenager Jessica Watson set out to circumnavigate the globe - one of the youngest people to ever try (and ultimately, the youngest person to succeed)....

The Shrinking of Treehorn is a children’s book written by American writer Florence Parry Heide. It was first published in 1971 with illustrations made by Edward Gorey. The book was followed by two sequels, Treehorn's Treasure in 1981 and ...

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a psychological thriller novel set in the late 1800s and originally published in 2016. The novel details a story of an alleged mysterious Irish girl called Anna O’Donnell. Some residents believe that Anna is sacred...

Acclaimed author Jennifer E. Smith has written countless novels throughout her nearly two-decade career, many of which have been adapted into film and television. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, her third novel, was published...

Published in 2007 to incredibly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, author Louis Bayard's novel The Pale Blue Eye is set sometime in the 1830s at West Point Academy. On one cold and windy October day, a young cadet's body is found...

The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth novel in the bibliography of prolific and acclaimed children's author Kate Dicamillo. Released in 2009, DiCamillo's novel follows a young, orphaned boy named Peter Augustus Duchene. Peter is a troubled...

The Good Nurse is a novel by Charles Graeber, published in 2013.

Experts have concluded that Charles Cullen, the subject of Charles Graeber's exposé The Good Nurse, likely killed over 400 people, making him the most prolific - yet least-known -...

A dystopian, post-apocalyptic graphic novel, Simon Stålenhag's The Electric State tells the story of a teenage girl and her robot as they embark on a journey across the United States. Traveling west, the duo come across the ruins of massive...

Offering to the Storm is the final novel in Dolores Redondo's "Batzan" trilogy, published in 2014. Like each of the previous novels in the trilogy, Offering to the Storm follows inspector Amaia Salazar, who is tasked one day with investigating the...

Jenna Evans Welch's Love and Gelato tells the story of an unforgettable summer in Italy. It follows a girl called Lina who goes to Italy at the behest of her dying mother, who implores her to visit the country to finally meet and get to know her...

Rumaan Alam's novel Leave the World Behind was published in 2020 and follows a couple (Amanda and Clay) who are on a vacation in a remote cabin in Long Island, New York. Naturally, they are expected to be alone on their vacation, but their...

Jennifer Smith is one of the most popular authors of young adult fiction. She has written countless novels, and most of them have secured positive reviews and a spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

Her 2016 novel Hello, Goodbye, and...

Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home (published in 2016) is author Pauls Toutonghi's book about the real-life story of a golden retriever mix named Gonker, who vanished on a hike with his owner on the...

Dial A for Aunties tells the story of a woman named Meddelin Chan, who accidentally kills her date one day. When the time comes to get rid of the body, Meddelin's mother calls her aunties, all of whom are meddlesome and occasionally annoying. But...

At the center of Black Brother, Black Brother is a core dichotomy between the main characters of the novel (who happen to be brothers). Donte presents as Black, while his brother Trey presents as white. Despite coming from the same family and...

A Lady's Guide to Selling Out follows a woman named Casey Pendergast who has landed a job at one of the top advertisement agencies in the world. But Casey, who was considered to be a book-loving English major by her friends and family, is...

Mr. Harrigan's Phone is a short story by American horror writer Stephen King. It first appeared in a collection of King's previously unpublished work titled If It Bleeds. The collection was published on April 28th, 2020.

King considers the works...

Jaroslav Kalfar's Spaceman of Bohemia is a novel published in 2017. The novel is told from the perspective of Jakub Procházka, the first astronaut from the newly independent Czech Republic (which formed after the fall of the Soviet Union in the...

Nimona is a graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson published in 2015 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of the eponymous Nimona, a shapeshifter. One day, Nimona decides to partner with the villainous Ballister Blackheart so that the two can destroy...

Mark Greaney's novel The Gray Man was published in 2009. The work features the eponymous gray man, a former CIA assassin who is now a world-class freelance assassin. Although he is typically called the gray man during work hours, his real name is...