Bystander (2011) is James Preller's novel about one of the impactful things affecting children today: bullying. The novel follows Eric, a seventh grader who recently moved schools. After he gets situated in his new school, Eric meets Griffin, a...

The Only Ones presents a dystopian narrative in a world where adults and most children have inexplicably disappeared, leaving behind deserted cities and a group of surviving children. The protagonist, Martin Maple, who has lived isolated from his...

In 2010, esteemed thriller author John Grisham decided to publish Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, the first novel in his Theodore Boone series, which was written for children—a first for Grisham. The novel is set in the small town of Strattenburg and...

Zero Days (2023) is Ruth Ware's novel about Jack and her husband Gabe, who are two of the foremost "penetration specialists" who are hired by companies across the world to test their physical and internet security. More specifically, they are...

Elin Hilderbrand was born on 17 July 1969 and is best known for writing fiction romance novels. Most of Hilderbrand's novels are set on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts, where she lives. Some of the renowned fiction novels authored by Hilderbrand...

"The Man-Moth" was first published in 1946, in Elizabeth Bishop's collection North and South. However, it was originally written roughly a decade prior, during the 1930s. This work is regarded as one of Bishop's stranger, more surreal poems. It...

Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man, first published in 2022, is a speculative fiction novel about each member of a majority-white society spontaneously developing brown skin.

Set in an unnamed English-speaking country that has similarities to...

Nikki Erlick is an American author based in Los Angeles, CA. The Measure, Erlick's debut novel and her first attempt at a full-length manuscript, was published in June 2022 and was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Erlick has explained that...

"A Small Needful Fact" is one of Ross Gay's most well-known poems. It was originally published by the poetry organization Split This Rock in 2015, and was shared widely across social media. Responding to the murder of Eric Garner at the hands of...

The Henna Artist (2020) by Alka Joshi revolves around Lakshmi, a gifted henna artist in 1950s Jaipur, who escapes an abusive marriage to build her own life. She services the high-class women of Jaipur, maintaining their secrets as she navigates...

Saint X (2020) is a novel by Alexis Schaitkin that centers around Claire, who was a child when her older sister Alison mysteriously died during a family vacation on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint X. In the aftermath of Alison's death,...

Originally a short story, "Wool" takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity lives in an underground silo. After receiving positive feedback on his work, author Hugh Howey expanded the story into a novel-length text, which he...

Killers of the Flower Moon, published in 2017, is a nonfiction book by journalist David Grann. It follows the investigation of several high-profile murders within the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in Oklahoma.

The book begins in 1920, with...

"The Fish" is one of Elizabeth Bishop's most celebrated and widely anthologized works. First published in 1946 in the collection North & South, the poem describes the experience of a speaker who catches a fish and then closely observes its...

Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water (2023) is ambitiously set over the course of seventy-seven years, from 1900 to 1977. The novel is set in Kerala, in the south of India, and follows three generations of the same family. However, a tragedy...

Dig is a young adult novel written by an award-winning American author Amy Sarig King under the name A.S. King. Dig is the eleventh novel by A.S. King, published in 2019. She is an acclaimed author known for writing gripping young adult and short...

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Set in colonial Kenya from 1914 to 1931, the book chronicles the seventeen years Blixen spent managing a coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills...

Oodgeroo Noonuccal is an Aboriginal Australian writer and political activist whose work centers the experience of indigenous people in Australia. "We Are Going," a poem originally published in her 1964 collection of the same name, examines the...

Geek Love is the third novel published by Katherine Dunn. The book was published in 1989, eighteen years after her second novel, Truck. Although published in 1989, Dunn actually finished writing it a decade earlier. It would take her nearly as...

Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice (called The Legacy in the United States) was published in 1950. It tells the story of a young woman named Jean Paget who becomes romantically involved with a fellow prisoner of war during WWII in modern-day...