The Legend of Auntie Po is a graphic historical fiction novel written and illustrated by Shing Yin Khor and published on June 15, 2021. The book follows the story of a queer 13-year-old named Mei, who is working in the United States in 1885. Life...

“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” is a novel written by Malinda Lo, and tells the story about a young Chinese girl called Lily Hu living in San Francisco during the 1950s. The novel is a young adult fiction heavily leaning on romance.

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House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed is a novel by Sara Gay Forden. Published in 2001 by Custom House publishing, it explores the Gucci family, their fashion dynasty, and a gruesome murder that defined this...

Stuntboy in the Meantime is a graphic Young Adult novel by Jason Reynolds which was originally published on November 9, 2021. The book tells the story of Portico Reeves, a mild-mannered school student whose secret identity is Stuntboy. Portico...

Blue Jasmine is an American film by filmmaker Woody Allen. Released in 2013, the comedic drama was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. The film explores the life of a formerly rich socialite who has to live with her working-class...

It may be only a coincidence that Hollywood’s obsession with horror icons began to move in earnest from vampires to zombies around the time that Let the Right One In was released in 2008, but it sure doesn’t feel like mere coincidence. In fact,...

"HG Wells' novel "Tono-Bungay" was published in 1909. The novel is a satirical social commentary on the changing society and the impact of industrialization and capitalism on the lives of ordinary people in England during the late 19th and early...

Class Act is Jerry Craft’s 2020 sequel (though described by the author as a “companion piece”) to his multi-award-winning graphic New Kid published to universal acclaim the year before. While New Kid focused on the experiences of Jordan Banks as a...

With its publication in 2014, Bark became Lorrie Moore’s first all-new collection of short stories since her highly regarded Birds of America appeared in 1998. Among the plaudits which this volume earned were short-list nominations for two...

The Promise by Damon Galgut details a promise which takes four decades to be fulfilled. The book was set in South Africa and reflects change over a period of forty changes. The family’s Matriarch, Rachel, is terminally ill. Salome, the housemaid,...

John Updike is one of America’s most famous writers of serious literature. And the literature he produced spans the full gamut of form and genre. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, criticism, and, yes, poetry. There is almost no major award...

Fever Dream is a novel by Argentinian author Samantha Schweblin. Initially titled Distancia de rescate, and written in Spanish, it was published in 2014. It was later translated for the English-speaking world by Megan McDowell and published in...

The Lost Daughter was published by Elena Ferrante in 2006 with the first English translation reaching bookstores two years later. That original publication date was a full decade before Ferrante would be named one of the 100 Most Influential...

The Last Black Unicorn is an autobiographical book written by stand-up comedian, actress, and author Tiffany Haddish published on 5th December 2017. In 2017, she had her breakout role in the film Girls Trip which escalated her comedic and film...

The Housing Lark is a novel written by a Trinidad-born writer and journalist Samuel Selvon. The novel presents a comedic caricature of the experience of the West Indian immigrants in London. It shows the life and interactions of people of various...

Published on 26th October 2021, Daughter of the Deep is a science fiction novel written by New York Bestselling author Rick Riordan. The standalone book is a departure from Riordan’s pentalogy book series such as Percy Jackson & the Olympians...

The Thursday Murder Club seems like a no-brainer for someone connected with British television to eventually come to write. After all, the list of memorable British crime dramas is longer than the list of memorable American detective novels. Where...

Kate DiCamillo is a wildly successful author of children’s novels probably most famous and familiar to readers as the author of Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. In addition to penning the popular Mercy Watson series for younger...

Pony is a historical fiction novel written by R. J. Palacio that was published on 28 September 2021. The novel is set in the American frontier in 1860 and blends the historical elements with magical realism. In the same vein as True Grit and War...

As part of her ongoing attempt to recapture that lightning in a bottle which made her a household name in millions of households around the globe with the publication of the original Harry Potter novel, J.K. Rowling published The Christmas Pig in...