Magisterium is a sci-fi and Fantasy Fiction novel by American author Jeff Hirsch. It was published in 2012 by Scholastic Press. The novel explores a world split in half by a mysterious Rift. On one side exists a technologically advanced...

The Yearling (1938) was borne out of advice author Marjorie Rawlings received from her editor: write about her life. Rawlings did just that. Although The Yearling is a work of fiction, it was directly inspired by Rawlings' own life. It tells the...

Shadowmancer (2002) by G.P. Taylor is a fantasy novel and religious allegory in 18th-century Yorkshire, England. The plot centers on Obadiah Demurral, a vicar with malicious intentions of controlling the world by manipulating the powers of a...

The novel Wolf by Wolf, published in 2015, is a historical fiction work written by American author Ryan Graudin. She is an acclaimed author of young adult fiction who has authored eight novels, including The Walled City and the series The World...

The Serpent King (2016) by Jeff Zentner is set in a small town in rural Tennessee. The novel follows three friends: Dill, the son of a Pentecostal snake-handling minister who is grappling with his faith; Travis, a gentle giant obsessed with a...

Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle is a historical fiction novel that explores the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. Initially pleased to find herself a wealthy widow after her second husband's death, Katherine soon...

Marcel Rouff's The Passionate Epicure (1920) is a novel, as its title and cover suggest, about food. The novel follows Dodin-Bouffant, a well-known bachelor with a tremendous passion for fine dining and love—namely, for women. Dodin-Bouffant is...

The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis' novel, which was published in 2014 by Vintage Books, is a novel about the Holocaust. Specifically, it is a novel about a love affair between Angelus Thomsen and the wife of the camp's commandant in the notorious...

Published in 2013, Dust is a science fiction novel written by American author Hugh Howey. It is the third and final book in the "Silo" series following Wool and Shift. The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of humanity...

First published in 2013, Shift is a dystopian fiction novel written by Hugh Howey. It is both the prequel and sequel to the first book in the science fiction trilogy known as "Silo." This novel followed the success of Wool, which initially gained...

Sasha LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (2022) does what few other books have done in history: tell the story of a Native American woman. LaPointe begins her memoir by discussing her long, intense longing for...

Indian writer Amitav Ghosh is primarily known for his novels, such as The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004), but in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017) he tackles climate change through the lenses of...

Elizabeth Bishop's "Crusoe in England" was published in 1976, in the poet's last collection, Geography III. It retells the well-known narrative of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist of Daniel Defoe's early English novel Robinson Crusoe. Like Defoe's...

Luckiest Girl Alive is the debut novel by American novelist Jessica Knoll. It was published in 2015, at which time Knoll was working as an editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel sold well, and made the New York Times Bestsellers List. The...

Edwin Arlington Robinson was an early-twentieth-century American poet who wrote about ordinary people using traditional poetic forms of rhyme and meter. "Richard Cory," originally published in Robinson's 1897 collection The Children of the Night,...

Edwin Arlington Robinson was an early-twentieth-century American poet who wrote about ordinary people using traditional poetic forms of rhyme and meter. "Miniver Cheevy," a narrative poem published in Robinson's 1910 collection The Town Down The...

People of the Whale is a novel by American author Linda Hogan. Published in 2008, it depicts the trials of a Native American man named Thomas, and various members of his family, as they struggle with the loss of their culture in the face of...

Written and directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club (1985) is a comedy-drama film about five teenagers who forge unexpected bonds over the course of an all-day detention.

Taking place over eight hours inside a fictional Illinois high school,...

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516. The work was written in Latin and it was published in Louvain (present-day Belgium). Utopia is a work of satire, indirectly criticizing Europe's political corruption and religious hypocrisy. More was a...

Helen Dunmore was a British author whose work addresses themes of motherhood, war, friendship, childhood, and nature. Originally published in her 2007 collection Glad of These Times, the poem “To My Nine-Year-Old Self” is a dramatic monologue in...