The Candy House is a speculative fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, first published in 2022. The novel follows the intersecting lives of various characters in a series of stylistically diverse short stories as they...

“The Badger” is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Clare. It describes the traditional sport of “badger baiting,” in which a badger is captured and made to fight with dogs until it dies. The poem was published in 1820, as part of Clare’s...

“First Love” is a love poem by the English Romantic poet John Clare. Clare was born in 1793 in the small village of Helpstone. Before leaving school at the age of 12, he developed a love of poetry. His first book, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life...

Published in 1988, The Shadow Lines is a novel by award-winning Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. It recounts the story of the narrator's coming of age in Calcutta and the sweeping impact of political violence on his life.

The novel is told from a...

"I Am!" laments the difficulty of asserting an individual identity in a hostile world. First published in 1848, it is one of the most famous poems by the nineteenth-century English poet John Clare. Clare was born in 1793 in a small village to...

The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James, first published serially in 1888 in The Atlantic Monthly. It was later released as a book in the same year. The novella explores an unnamed literary biographer's quest to obtain letters written...

Malorie is a post-apocalyptic novel written by American writer Josh Malerman. It was published in July 2021 by Del Rey Books. It is the sequel to Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box which was published in 2014.

In the first installment, an unknown and...

Although Escape from Hat, which was published in 2011, was written for a middle school audience, the graphic novel has gained a cult following from people of all ages. The novel tells the whimsical but dark story of dueling "lucky" rabbit (named...

True Spirit is an autobiography published by Jessica Watson in 2010.

In October 2009, Australian teenager Jessica Watson set out to circumnavigate the globe - one of the youngest people to ever try (and ultimately, the youngest person to succeed)....

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a psychological thriller novel set in the late 1800s and originally published in 2016. The novel details a story of an alleged mysterious Irish girl called Anna O’Donnell. Some residents believe that Anna is sacred...

Published in 2007 to incredibly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, author Louis Bayard's novel The Pale Blue Eye is set sometime in the 1830s at West Point Academy. On one cold and windy October day, a young cadet's body is found...

The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth novel in the bibliography of prolific and acclaimed children's author Kate Dicamillo. Released in 2009, DiCamillo's novel follows a young, orphaned boy named Peter Augustus Duchene. Peter is a troubled...

The Good Nurse is a novel by Charles Graeber, published in 2013.

Experts have concluded that Charles Cullen, the subject of Charles Graeber's exposé The Good Nurse, likely killed over 400 people, making him the most prolific - yet least-known -...

A dystopian, post-apocalyptic graphic novel, Simon Stålenhag's The Electric State tells the story of a teenage girl and her robot as they embark on a journey across the United States. Traveling west, the duo come across the ruins of massive...

Offering to the Storm is the final novel in Dolores Redondo's "Batzan" trilogy, published in 2014. Like each of the previous novels in the trilogy, Offering to the Storm follows inspector Amaia Salazar, who is tasked one day with investigating the...

Jenna Evans Welch's Love and Gelato tells the story of an unforgettable summer in Italy. It follows a girl called Lina who goes to Italy at the behest of her dying mother, who implores her to visit the country to finally meet and get to know her...

Rumaan Alam's novel Leave the World Behind was published in 2020 and follows a couple (Amanda and Clay) who are on a vacation in a remote cabin in Long Island, New York. Naturally, they are expected to be alone on their vacation, but their...

Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home (published in 2016) is author Pauls Toutonghi's book about the real-life story of a golden retriever mix named Gonker, who vanished on a hike with his owner on the...

Dial A for Aunties tells the story of a woman named Meddelin Chan, who accidentally kills her date one day. When the time comes to get rid of the body, Meddelin's mother calls her aunties, all of whom are meddlesome and occasionally annoying. But...