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Necessary Lies is by Diane Chamberlin, and was published in 2013. It takes place in a town down south, about fifty years ago. This text follows the story of Ivy Hart, a fifteen-year-old girl where her parents die, and she has to take care of her...

Caleb's Crossing was written by Geraldine Brooks, a bestselling author and journalist who grew up in Sydney, Australia. It was published during 2011 by Viking. This fiction novel tells a rich story of a blossoming friendship between two core...

Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985) reveals the strange new world of Gilead. Once the United States of America, Gilead was formed by a military coup that shot the President and members of Congress, suspended the...

Released in 1993, Schindler's List is a film that tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saves the lives of over a thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust in World War II. The film is adapted from the book Schindler’s Ark...

Thomas de Quincey reluctantly became a journalist in 1819 in order to alleviate increasingly dire financial difficulties. He initially worked for Blackwood's along with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Blackwood's had a vicious rivalry with a...

Written by author Max Barry, Lexicon (published in 2013) tells the story of an abnormal school that doesn't teach children math, science and history. Instead, they teach children how to use manipulate people's mind and ultimately control the mind....

The Heir is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 3, 2016. It is a sequel to Cass' best-selling novel, The Heir. This marks the final book in the entire series and concludes the events of both the...

The Heir is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 6, 2015. It is a sequel to Cass' best-selling trilogy, The Selection. The Heir is set twenty years after the events of The One and the main protagonist...

The One is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on May 6, 2014. The book is the third and final in the trilogy.

The book marks the end of America's journey as an Elite as she is forced to prove her love for...

The Elite is a young adult fictional novel by Kiera Cass and was published by HarperTeen on April 23, 2013. The book is the second in a trilogy and due to its success has lead to a sequel.

The book focuses on protagonist America Singer, as she...

Fredrik Backman is a blogger and novelist born on June 2, 1981 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Before he published his first novel in 2012, Backman wrote for various publications, including Helsingborgs Dagblad and Moore Magazine. However, A Man Called...

The Amber Spyglass is a young adult fantasy novel written by Philip Pullman, first published in 2000. It is the third and final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, preceded by The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife.

All three books take place...

The Subtle Knife is a novel written by Philip Pullman that was published in 1997. This book is actually the second installment of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman is an English author whose writing is based heavily on religion and...

The Impossible Knife of Memory is a 2014 Young Adult novel by American author Laurie Halse Anderson. It explores the life of the protagonist, Hayley Kincaid, and her father, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after returning from...

Lauren Groff was early on considered a promising writer. Currently, one can hardly find a person who would doubt as to whether she has a talent or not. Her first novel reached a status of bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Its review was...

This name of the author of this collection is well-known among readers who favor short stories over novels. Being the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and many more, Ann Beattie has proved that her genius can...

Mia Couto, born in 1955 as Antonio Emilio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican writer of Portuguese descent. He has said himself that growing up in Beira, Mozambique with immigrant parents meant he was brought up in a blend of European and African...

The Dark Forest is a near-future apocalyptic science fiction novel written by Liu Cixin. The novel is the second in a trilogy (called "Remembrance of Earth's Past") and is the sequel to the first novel. Cixin is a renowned Chinese author who...

A three-part novel, Seveneves was written by Neal Stephenson and published in 2015. Stephenson is an American author who is most well known for his science fiction novels. Though his works have been categorized in many different genres, Stephenson...

Published in 2015, The Sunken Cathedral is a novel written by Kate Walbert. The protagonist’s name is Marie. Simone has been Marie’s best for decades, ever since they survived WWII in France together and immigrated to New York City together. For...

First published in 2009, A Short History of Women was written by Kate Walbert and traces the complicated relationships and interactions between the histories and futures of mothers and daughters. The novel traces five generations of women from the...

Juan Gabrile Vasquez is an author from Colombia. After studying in Bogota, Vasquez traveled the world, living in places like Paris, Belgium, and Barcelona. Along the way he received a doctorate in Latin American Literature. Although he...

Written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints Day (published in 2015) is a collection of very interesting stories. One story follows the story of a Columbian reporter who witnesses an exceptionally gruesome murder. Another tells the story...

The Sound of Things Falling is a novel written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, a Colombian author, and the book was actually published in 2011 in Spanish first. In 2013, Anne McLean published the English translation, which won the 2014 International...