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Although best known for his novels (the most famous of which include No Country for Old Men and The Road), Cormac McCarthy has written a number of plays and screenplays. Among the pantheon of McCarthy's work is his 2006 play The Sunset Limited,...

“The Lamb” initially appeared in Songs of Innocence, a collection which Blake first published as independent volume in 1789. He followed that collection up in 1794 with Songs of Experience. The two volumes are typically bound together today and...

Written by Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth (published in 2008) tells a story of a woman who is a grandchild to a king, a daughter to a prince and to a queen. She has fought in an arena two times and has a kid. Married to a powerful lord, she is...

Hope Jahren is a successful American professor, geobiologist, and geochemist. With these credentials, she penned her memoir Lab Girl, which focuses on the overlooked brilliance of plant life and nature. The book is divided into five parts: a...

My Name is Red is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, one of the most popular writers in the homeland, who has received many national awards.

His first novel, which brought the author success outside of Turkey was the novel The White Castle. In...

Gerald Durrell was a man of many talents; zookeeper, television show host, conservationist and naturalist, founder of the Jersey Zoo in the British Channel Islands and author; it is in the latter role that he found the most success and for which...

Daphne du Maurier is a famous English writer, and was engaged in writing all her life. She was a skillful master of detective and historical novels, biographies - books about the lives of famous people, theater plays, as well as books about the...

Just before the final essential, insightful and revealing conversation between Mrs. Packletide and Louisa Mebbin which brings this story to an end, a character identified only as Clovis makes a suggestion to the title character that she throw a “...

Written by Brit Bennett, The Mothers (published in 2016) tells the story of a young girl named Nadia Turner who just lost her mom to suicide. After her mother's death, she goes to her local church to see a pastor and grieve. But then she finds out...

The novel is about an infamous Californian bandit called Joaquin Murieta and it tells the story of a fallen man, who was once guided by moral and goodness, taking a path of revenge, blood and pain. The story gives background to the anti-hero's...

Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (published in 2003) tells the true story of the Oakland Athletics and their player-turned General Manager, Billy Beane. Specifically, it tells the story of how Beane and his assistants...

William Gibson first wrote The Miracle Worker for Playhouse 90, a television anthology drama series that gave networks the opportunity to air something different from the traditional long-running serials, but more meaty than half-our sit-coms or...

The Meursault Investigation is a first novel from Algerian writer Kamel Daoud. It is an example of a postmodern subgenre well-represented by previously published works ranging from Mary Reilly to Wicked to Lady Macbeth. Sometimes called a “...

It's unusual for a novel to reach bestseller status on the New York Times bestseller list by virtue of the sales achieved by word-of-mouth, but that is exactly what happened in the case of Kim Edwards' novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Published...

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is considered a short story rather than a novel, but many argue about this, as the work is too big to be a short story, and too small to be called a novel. Thus, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg stands on the...

Written by Aravind Adiga Amnesty: A Novel (published in 2020) tells a story of an illegal immigrant named Danny who is in Sydney, Australia. He has been working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom for three years and has been trying...

Written by Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing (published in 2019) tells the story of Jean McConville a mother of ten that gets abducted by a member of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A) in front of her ten children. The whole city knew it was the...

Inspired by his long-form magazine article of the same name in New York, David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth (released in 2019), is a warning about the forthcoming consequences of global warming on the Earth and the species which inhabit...

Initially entitled The Great Cake, J.R.R. Tolkien's novella Smith of Wootton Major is one of his shorter tales but one that still carries great import for the understanding of his philosophy. Originally intended to be a preface to George...

The book Black Elk Speaks was based on a series of conversations that the author, John G. Neihardt, had with an Oglala Lakota medicine man named Black Elk, that took place in the presence of Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, as he was acting as...

William Morris was in some ways the nineteenth-century equivalent of Martha Stewart, or Oprah Winfrey. He was a respected and successful poet, who was also an architect, artist, printer, and textile designers. His textiles are still used by...

Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House (first published in 1941 but achieved its fame after a re-issue in 1954) was first released to very little fanfare and received very few reviews (partly due to its availability and partly due to its subject...

Although it might sometimes seem as though children can behave like wild animals, they are not generally portrayed as such in mid-century modern to contemporary literature. In Victorian England, though, as Darwinism gripped the imagination of the...

Written by Philp Nel, Was the Cat in the Hat Black (published in 2017) asks and answers an important question: is children's literature racist? The answer, Nel says, is a resounding "yes." But examples are more subtle than one would think. In The...