Magic's Promise is an epic fantasy novel by American author Mercedes Lackey. It is the second novel in the Valdemar: The Last Herald Mage series and seventh in the Valdemar universe. It was published in 1990 by DAW books. A young-adult, romantic...

Magic’s Pawn is the first novel in a series called The Last Herald’s Mage. The novel centers around a Herald called Vanyel in the kingdom of Valdemar. A Herald mage is an individual possessing extraordinary psychic and magical abilities and...

Bewilderment is a contemporary novel by American novelist Richard Powers. Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2021, it is Powers' thirteenth book and a follow up to his 2018 novel The Overstory that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

The Souvenir Museum is a collection of short stories by the award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken. The stories are of a contemporary genre, and each story deals with some real-life struggle in a witty way. All the characters have come to a...

Intimacies is a novel by American author Katie Kitamura. It was published in August 2021 after Jonathan Cape acquired the rights in February of the same year. It is her fourth novel after A Separation (2017) and both share a similar tone in terms...

Abundance is a contemporary novel by American author Jakob Guanzon. Published in 2021 by Graywolf Press, it is Guanzon's debut novel. It explores social menaces in the United States like poverty, wealth inequality, justice system, drug trade,...

Written by an award-winning author, Zorrie follows a young American girl called Zorrie Underwood, who has suffered a great deal in her life. She lost both her parents to an illness, and after an aunt, who was like a mother to her, passed, Zorrie...

Matrix is a novel set in the 12th century England and follows a young french royal, cast away Marie, who was banished to become a prioress of an abbey with nuns in rural England. The reasoning behind this is because Marie is deemed unfit for...

Regarding the ever-conflicting and discussed topic of gender identity and gender roles, the author of “Female Masculinity” dives into the topic of the women who aren’t following the normative, socially accepted path of womanhood; women who...

Foundation is the science fiction trilogy written by Isaac Asimov. The book was first published in 1951 by Gnome Press. The story is based on the fall of the Roman Empire. Asimov uses Galactic Empire to depict the collapse of the Roman Empire....

Originally published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock, Over to You is a collection of ten short stories written by British novelist Roald Dahl. Dahl joined the Royal Air Force after the Second World War broke out and stayed in active service...

Cloud Cuckoo Land is the highly anticipated follow-up to author Michael Doerr’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Even before the public could get their hands on it when it was finally released in late September of...

Beautiful World, Where Are You is Irish author Sally Rooney’s third novel, published in September 2021. Not coincidentally, it is the story of an Irish novelist who bears a more than slight resemblance to her creator. The story covers the...

Black Boy Joy is a collection of short fiction celebrating the joys of being a young, black, and male in America. The book was published in 2021 under the editorial guidance of the creator of the Tristan Strong series of children’s books, Kwame...

Published on 15 August 2017 by Riverhead Books, Home Fire is the seventh book written by the British writer Kamila Shamsie. The book has been shortlisted for multiple awards since its publication and in 2018 won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In...

Harbor Me is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Jacqueline Woodson and published in 2018. Woodson had earned the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for her previous book Brown Girl Dreaming. In this book, she writes...

Anxious People is a novel by Swedish author and columnist Fredrik Backman. Originally titled Folk med ångest and written in Swedish, it was translated by Neil Smith for the English world. It was originally published in 2019 and the translated...

My Grandmother's Hands is a book written by the American author and therapist Resmaa Menakem and was published in 2017. As a therapist, Menakem specializes in body-centered psychology, violence prevention, and trauma, incorporating years of...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is an epic fantasy novel by American author V. E. Schwab. Published by Tor Fantasy Books in 2020, it explores a woman who makes a bargain with a powerful force to make her immortal. The force instead puts a curse...