A Lady's Guide to Selling Out follows a woman named Casey Pendergast who has landed a job at one of the top advertisement agencies in the world. But Casey, who was considered to be a book-loving English major by her friends and family, is...

Mr. Harrigan's Phone is a short story by American horror writer Stephen King. It first appeared in a collection of King's previously unpublished work titled If It Bleeds. The collection was published on April 28th, 2020.

King considers the works...

Jaroslav Kalfar's Spaceman of Bohemia is a novel published in 2017. The novel is told from the perspective of Jakub Procházka, the first astronaut from the newly independent Czech Republic (which formed after the fall of the Soviet Union in the...

Nimona is a graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson published in 2015 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of the eponymous Nimona, a shapeshifter. One day, Nimona decides to partner with the villainous Ballister Blackheart so that the two can destroy...

Mark Greaney's novel The Gray Man was published in 2009. The work features the eponymous gray man, a former CIA assassin who is now a world-class freelance assassin. Although he is typically called the gray man during work hours, his real name is...

One of Rice's most famous novels is Taltos, which was published in 1994 as the third installment in her Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Anne Rice is arguably best known for the novel Interview with a Vampire, which was adapted into a film of...

Lasher, which was published by Knopf in 1993, is the second novel in acclaimed author Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It tells the story of Dr. Rowan Mayfair, who in the previous novel in the trilogy (The Witching Hour) had...

Anne Rice's The Witching Hour is the first novel in her Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Published by Knopf in 1990, the novel tells the story of Dr. Rowan Mayfair, a talented neurosurgeon from San Francisco, California. For much of her life,...

Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez is a novel published in 2022. It is set against a very unique backdrop: a Native American community in Maine, United States. Fundamentally, it is an exploration of what it means to be a Native American...

Originally published in April 2021, The Music of Bees is a debut novel written by author and beekeeper Eileen Garvin. It is set in the small town of Hood River in Oregon where Garvin also resides. She derives her stories from her own experiences...

Set in London, England in 1965, Grame Macrae Burnet's bestselling novel Case Study tells the story of a young girl who believes her sister's psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has coaxed her into suicide. To try and figure out what really...

Love Marriage is a contemporary novel written by British author Monica Ali. It was published in February of 2022 by Virago Press. In her fifth novel, the author explores the subjects of the immigrant experience and cultural diversity in Britain....

Graves wrote the novel “I, Claudius” in 1934. The book is presented as a secret autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus (or Claudius) who was the Emperor of the Roman Empire from 44 to 51 AD. In order the maintain this concept,...

Although Harold Pinter's No Man's Land was by no means one of his most well-known or popular plays, it was widely read, viewed, and well-received when first produced and published in 1975. A tells the story of Hirst, a man in his sixties. Hirst is...

NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory is a novel published in 2022. The novel was partially inspired by the rise and fall of Robert G. Mugabe, the now former (and deceased) President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for nearly four decades...

Booth is a historical novel by Karen Joy Fowler originally published in March 2022. As the title suggests, the subject of the novel is America’s most famous killer, one of history’s most famous assassins, and, arguably perhaps, the one single...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a fictional debut novel by Maddie Mortimer, published in March 2022 to highlight the life of a cancer patient, mediation on sickness and death. The novel precisely offers a fervent coming-to-age narrative through...

The Colony by Magee is a follow-up novel to her earlier book titled The Undertaking, which was earlier selected for the Women's Prize in the Irish book honors. The Undertaking novel was an emotional book that explored the lives of ordinary Germans...

After Sappho is a biographical book set in Italy in the 1880s. The narrative voice in this novel is inspired by Virginia Woolf's biographical essay "A Sketch of the Past," which talks about her infinite age, instincts, and rapturous pleasure as a...