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Published in 2017 by Indian author Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel that conveys some of the worst events in the history of modern India. One of these events, a new land reform, puts people in the book into extreme...

The career of Oliver Wendell Holmes as a poet can be said either to have begun with tremendous good luck or an ironic example of bad luck, depending upon the point of view. That career began in earnest while a young man growing disaffected by...

The poems of James Russell Lowell are very structured and are of general topics, like love and freedom, which were especially apparent in the Enlightenment Era. Indeed, this is when his poems were written, except they were published in America...

Bone Game is a novel by Irish-American author Louis Owens. The book, a murder mystery novel, features Cole McCurtain as the main character. Of mixed Native American heritage like the author himself, McCurtain is a professor of Native American...

Many argue that John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps (originally published as a serial in August and September 1915 in Blackwood's Magazine) is one of the most influential thrillers ever written. The novel follows Richard Hannay after his return to...

Published in 1996, Indian Killer is a fictional novel that takes place in the city of Seattle. During the course of the novel, an outrageous serial killer runs about the city, undetected, scalping all of his victims. The murderer is believed to be...

Don Miguel Ruiz has been declared a National Heirloom in his native Mexico; this might seem like a rather weighty honor to live up to, but as an apparent successor to Carlos Castaneda, who penned the highly influential The Teachings of Don Juan :...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a bestselling self-help and business book by Stephen Covey first published in 1989. Covey offers a different take on self-help material by not dwelling on ‘get rich quick’ schemes but on developing...

Robert T. Kiyosaki began to publicly emphasize the importance of financial literacy in 1997, around the same time that Suze Orman began to use the same term quite frequently on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Before Kiyosaki's book was released the term...

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a 2016 self-help book by American psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth. The book was a New York Times bestseller for more than 20 weeks and integrates aspects of Duckworth's scientific background, making...

Gather all of your belongings around you. Ask yourself, does this bring me joy? If your answer is "no", then throw the offending and joyless item away. This, in a nutshell, is the KonMarie Method for tidying up.

Marie Kondo's de-cluttering Bible...

How to Win Friends and Influence People is without a doubt one of -- if not the -- most important business book of all time. Not only did it create the self-help genre, but it also helped offer guidance to transformative business leaders like...

The 4-Hour Workweek is a book by American author and entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss. The book helps readers get acquainted with better ways to live life and earn money and has become popular in the ever-growing genre of self-help books. Selling over...

A realistic fiction novel, Girl at War was published in 2015 and written by American author Sara Novic. The book follows the story of Ana Juric, who is ten years old when the novel opens in 1991. She lives in the capital of Croatia, but, soon...

The Candy Shop War is a novel for children published by Brandon Mull in 2007. Mull is also the author of the very popular Fablehaven series of YA novels as well as its sequel series, Dragonwatch. The candy shop’s fictional setting of Colson is...

Aliens (1986) is James Cameron's follow-up to Ridley Scott's classic Alien (1976). It tells the story of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, who is rescued by a team after being in hypersleep for over 50 years. After, Ripley is tasked with helping marines...

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code is the third book in the Artemis Fowl series, which consists of eight science fiction, fantasy, and children’s literature books. The series was written by the Irish author Eoin Colfer and was released between...

First published in 1929, Tyrant Banderas is a critically-acclaimed novel by Spanish author and dramatists Ramon del Valle-Inclan. It was one of the most influential works in the Latin American genre of the "dictator novel", which consisted of...

2016's Arrival is based on a novella called "Story of Your Life" (1998) by Ted Chiang. Like the novella, the film tells the story of linguist Dr. Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner) as they try...

David Bezmozgis published Natasha and Other Stories as his debut story collection. This story follows the family of the Bermans, who are Russian Jews, as they flee from Riga to Toronto. It highlights the struggles that immigrants experience as...

Aspects of the Novel is a literary work based on a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forester at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1927. It is a well-structured book that redefines the formula of a successful novel. He discusses seven vital...

Talent versus luck: this was a question that plagued Stephen King after his initial success as an author. How much of his success was due to talent, and how much due to the cult following he had amassed, and the fact that people bought his books...

Antigonick is Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles' Antigone. The project, which is a comic-book presentation of the classic Greek work was collaborated on by Robert Currie with drawings by Bianca Stone. Caron's interpretation quite has a biting...

Daniel Magariel's One of the Boys (2017) is a depressing story. Set in New Mexico, One of the Boys tells the story of two young boys (brothers) who have to deal with the love they have for their abusive and terrible father. The book details how...