In His Steps is a religious book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon and first published in 1896. The story mainly revolves around the character Reverend Henry Maxwell, who is the pastor of the First Church of Raymond. He challenges his congregation...

First published in 2003, The First Stone is a novel about a troubled boy and a grieving girl, both running their own course to heal their broken pasts. Reef, the main character, cannot contain his anger after his grandmother’s passing - the only...

Fernando Pessoa is the author of The Book of Disquiet, which was first published during 1913 and was later published during 2002 by Penguins Classics. This literary treasure stems from a neglected trunk filled with incomplete and unpublished...

A clash of Kings is the second novel from the series A song of Ice and Fire by J.R.R. Martin. The novel was published in 1998 and won the Locus award in the same year. The novel focuses on the civil war in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and a part...

Published in 2012, The Tale Teller is a novel written by Susan Glickman, a Canadian author and professor. She has written many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as three books for younger readers. A few of her other books also deal...

Perhaps the single most interesting tidbit relating to the background of Oedipus at Colonus may be apocryphal, but its authenticity or lack thereof does nothing to lessen the symbolic lesson everyone can learn. The son of the playwright Sophocles...

First published in 1995, Loaded is a novel by Christos Tsioklas, an Australian author of Greek heritage. The novel focuses on a 24-hour period in the life of a young gay Greek Australian man living in Melbourne, where Tsioklas himself was born and...

Written by author Dorothy Porter, The Monkeys Mask (published in 1997) tells the story of a 19-year-old girl named Mickey who loves poetry and poets. Then, Mickey mysteriously goes missing under suspicious circumstances and the missing person case...

The Babees Book, compiled and edited by Frederick James Furnivall, is a collection of medieval English didactic texts designed to teach young people, particularly boys, the principles of proper behavior, manners, and morality. The original...

The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro and was published by Faber&Faber publishing company in 2015. This is the seventh of Ishiguro’s works and has also been distributed in the USA via Random House publishers.

The novel...

Still Alice is a novel written by Lisa Genova, and was initially self-published in 2007 with iUniverse. The book was then republished by Gallery Books in 2009.

The novel revolves around the life of a middle-aged woman named Alice Howland, who...

The seventeen stories that comprise the collection of Robert Carver in the anthology titled Beginners all reveal the extent to which his writing is profoundly influenced by Ernest Hemingway. From the opener “Why Don’t You Dance?” to the closer “...

Tusk and Stone is a novel written by Malcolm Bosse and published in 1995. Bosse is an author who graduated from Yale University and also served in the Navy. He has written many novels that are set in Asia, capturing much of the cultural and...

Plato began his career as a writer of tragedies, but, influenced by Socrates, left that behind and began writing philosophical dialogues. Other writers also wrote about Socrates and his speeches. Plato’s use of him as a main character may not have...

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story is based on a non-fiction article by Richard Preston that was published in The New Yorker on October 26, 1992. Titled “Crisis in the Hot Zone,” the article chronicled an outbreak of a mutated strain of the...

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom that was published in 2003. It follows the life and death of a maintenance man named Eddie.

Albom grew up Jewish and, although he does not subscribe to any specific religion today, feels...