A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel by Amor Towles. The novel was published by Viking Publishers on the 6th of September 2016. The audio version was read by Nicholas Guy Smith and released by Penguin Random House. His previous novel, Rules of...

Native American author James Welch published his first novel in 1974; Winter in the Blood was so well-received that Welch was immediately considered to be one of the founding authors of the Native American Renaissance. His best-known novel, Fools...

With one of the most beautiful titles in all of literature, A Horseman in the Sky is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, journalist and author of The Devil's Dictionary, which was named one of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces of...

American playwright Paula Vogel received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her 1997 play, How I Learned to Drive. It tells the story of Li'l Bit and her Uncle Peck through early adolescence to post-college and uses learning to drive as a metaphor...

The Female Persuasion is a New York Times best-selling novel by Meg Wolitzer. The book, originally published in April 2018, follows the stories of Greer Kadetsky and Faith Frank. Frank, a woman of sixty-three years and an elegant orator, captures...

If you were to visit London's Broad Street today, you would find the home of poet William Blake, a couple of Chinese restaurants, and a slew of townhomes re-purposed and used as offices. You would also find a replica water pump, an informational...

Jacob Riis was born in Denmark and emigrated to the United States in 1870. He famously became known as Jacob Riis “police reporter, reformer, useful citizen” following a biography of him by Louise Ware, published under that title. His...

Intimate Apparel is a play by Columbia University Professor of Playwrighting Lynn Nottage. The play is set in 1905 and it tells the story of Esther, a young African American woman who travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a seamstress,...

Not only is In the Woods Tana French's first novel, but it is also the first novel in her critically-acclaimed "Dublin Murder" series. In the Woods tells the story of two Irish detectives who are investigating the murder of a 12 year-old girl. One...

Although he is best known for his historical fiction novel The Book Thief, Australian author Markus Zusak has written several tremendous novels. Among those novels is I Am the Messenger (2002), which is told through the eyes of its main character,...

Written by Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a fable in novella form, which tells the story of a seagull (named Jonathan Livingston Seagull) who is trying to learn how to fly - and how to live his life as well as possible. Jonathan is...

Joe Turner's Come and Gone is the second of ten plays that makes up The Pittsburgh Cycle. Penned by playwright August Wilson, it was first staged in 1984 in Waterford, Connecticut, admittedly a very long way off-Broadway, but it made its move to...

British author Lewis Carroll is no doubt best known for writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its subsequent sequel. However, he also wrote several other equally wonderful books and poems. Jabberwocky is one of those poems. Classified as a...

Written by American author Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (2013) tells the story of two people whose family ties have defined - and in some ways, entrapped - them. Subhash and his brother, for example, were inseparable for most of their lives. In...

Published in 1819, "Love's Philosophy" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley, the spouse of the Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein, originally published this poem through Leigh Hunt, a popular poet and writer of the time. It was later...

Canadian author Alastair MacLeod was descended from Scottish immigrants who made their home on the rugged landscape of the Cape Breton Islands. a place that MacLeod clearly loves and uses as the backdrop for the majority of his writing.

The Lost...

Have you ever been a child lost in a department store, looking for your mother, panicking and wondering how you are ever going to get home again? This feeling of rising fear inside a child who does not know where they are but finds themselves...

Lone Survivor chronicles Marcus Luttrell's early life, as well as his time preparing for and during Navy SEAL training. Primarily, though, Lone Survivor tells the true story of Marcus Luttrell (and his fellow Navy SEALS) experiences during...

American author Celeste Ng's second novel is set in her own hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a place she dearly loves. It tells the story of two families in Shaker Heights whose lives intertwine because of their children. When the Richardson's...

Miranda Evans is a sixteen year old girl who lives in northeastern Pennsylvania. Her diary entries form the narrative of Susan Beth Pfeffer's 2006 science fiction novel that describes what happens when an asteroid hits the moon and brings it...

Written by English author Kate Atkinson, Life After Life (2013) tells two very different stories, each of which involve a woman named Ursula Todd. In one story, Ursula dies before she even takes her first breath. In another, she is born and...

William Dawes was an officer of the Royal Marines, and sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia in 1788, landing in the province of New South Wales He was by profession an astronomer but he wanted to join the voyage in order to study...

Lisa Ko is an American writer, born in 1975 in New York City to Filipino immigrants of Chinese descent. Ko started writing in early childhood, drawing her first inspiration from observations she made at her family’s flea market and crafts show...