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Published is 1767 and written by proclaimed French writer Voltaire, L'Ingénu is a satirical novella. Following the story of a character named "Child of Nature" the book focuses on themes of lost ancestry and religion. A Huron Native American,...

Written by author and journalist Dave Cullen, Columbine (originally published in 2009), examines the mass shooting at Columbine High School and the shooting's perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Primarily, the book covers the killers...

James L. Swanson and his subject, Abraham Lincoln, share the same birthday, although the author claims that this fact has nothing to do with his lifelong fascination with one of our most revered and respected presidents. Hailing from a long line...

The most famous and debatably best play the famous actor Bruce Norris has ever written was Clybourne Park. The retort to the play A Raisin in the Sun won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2012 Tony Award for Best Play and 2012 Theatre World...

The Canadian novelist Jen Sookfong Lee born and raised in the Eastside of Vancouver which is a marginalized area. She describes this place in the book The Conjoined, published in 2016. She has published many novels such as The End of East, The...

Clifford's Blues is a 1999 historical fiction novel by John Alfred Williams. Williams is considered one of the "founding members of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s." Like Williams' other novels, Clifford's Blues is told through the...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a history book written by Jack Weatherford, originally published in 2004. At 352 pages, it gives an alternate perspective to the Mongol dynasty and their leader, Genghis Khan. It follows Khan’s...

Richard Church, born in 1893, was a novelist, poet, and writer of several autobiographies. Born in southeast of London, Church was quite fond of country-style living, and this is shown in many of his poems. Church also contributed to several...

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic is journalist and author Sam Quinones' 2015 non-fiction book that explores why there is an opiate epidemic in America. Quinones' traces it back to enterprising sugar farmers who developed a...

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the debut novel of author Becky Albertalli, was published in 2015. The novel follows the story of Simon Spier, who is a high school boy insecure about his gayness. Throughout this coming-of-age novel, Simon must...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace was written by Jeff Hobbs. It was publish in September 2014 by Scribner. Jeff Hobbs comes from Pennsylvania. He has a degree from Yale University in English Language and Literature. He graduated from Yale...

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains was written by English author and essayist Nicholas Carr. Published in 2010, the book seems to expand upon the original ideas presented by Carr in his essay entitled, "Is Google Making Us...

The Sphinx Without a Secret and Other Stories is a collection of stories written by Oscar Wilde. The stories are all comical and mysterious. The single tales were originally published in 1887 by a magazine called “The Court and Society Review” and...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the biography of naturalist Charles Darwin, written by Darwin himself from late May 1876 to early August of the same year. Over the course of the book, Darwin reminisces over his career from the landmark On...

Kim Scott is not just one of Australia's pre-eminent authors; he is also one of the best known indigenous authors, a descendant of the Noongar Aborigines of Western Australia. The name "Noongar" does not refer to a specific group of aboriginal...

The Shadow of the Wind is a Spanish language book that was published in 2001 that became a worldwide hit after its translation into English by Lucia Graves in 2004. Graves is one of the most renowned translators of Spanish into English in the...

Most authors, when interviewed, will tell you that they wrote their book because creativity had been bubbling up inside them since childhood, and they had always known there was a novel within just struggling to get out. Others will tell you that...

Sarah’s Key is a young adult historical fiction novel about the holocaust written by Tatiana de Rosnay. Its original language is French, and it was released under the title “Elle s’appelait Sarah” which can be directly translated to “She was...

Aldo Leopold was an American author, ecologist, scientist and philosopher - areas of expertise that at first glance seem oppositional, to say the least. His main passion was environmentalism; A Sand County Almanac is his best-known work and has...

Turtles All the Way Down is entrepreneur and author John Green's 2017 follow-up to his 2012 smash-hit The Fault in Our Stars. In the book, we follow a high school student named Aza Holmes. She is wicked smart but struggles with mental health—...

Zoe Wicomb, an author with both South African and Scottish ancestry, lives and works in Scotland, something that she shares with the protagonist of this novel, Marcia Murray. Murray is a professor in Glasgow who returns to her homeland of South...

Thérèse Desqueyroux is a novel written by the famous French author François Mauriac. The book was first published in 1927, and later became included in the Grand Prix of the best novels of the half-century in 1950. Mauriac died at the age of 84 in...

Alex Kotlowitz's biography, There Are No Children Here, was the recipient of The Christopher Award, and the Helen Bernstein Award, and tells the story of a childhood spent in a housing project in Chicago, at the Henry Horner Homes. Like many kids...

Thank you for Arguing is Jay Heinrichs' 2017 book covering how to be persuasive in argument, writing, and in every day life. In the book, he uses examples ranging from people like Bart Simpson and former British prime minister Winston Churchill....