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The Latecomer is a contemporary fiction novel written by New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz. Celadon Books published the book on May 31, 2022, as the eighth novel by the author. It was reported that the book will be adapted for...
The Last Cuentista is a novel written by an American author, Donna Barba Higuera, and published in 2021. It is a science fiction, space travel dystopian novel that falls into the middle-grade age range. It is a second novel by the author, who rose...
The Committed is a historical novel by American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. It was published in 2021 by Grove Press as the second in a series. The novel was preceded by The Sympathizer, which was a commercial success and won the 2016 Pulitzer...
The Spanish Love Deception is a novel by Elena Armas published in February 2022 by Atria Books. It is a romantic comedic novel steeped in the trope of couples who hate at first sight and then gradually come to realize they actually love each...
Wahala is a debut novel by Nikki May, a Nigerian-British author, and it follows three Nigerian-British friends, their lives, the struggles they face, and the friendships they try to uphold. Roughly translated, the Nigerian word wahala means ...
Miles Morales is a novel written by the award-winning author Jason Reynolds, who decided to create his own version of the well-known Spider-Man world. The novel follows an African American and Hispanic boy called Miles who goes to the Brooklyn...
Zahrah the Windseeker is a fantasy novel by Nigerian writer Nnedi Okorafor published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Set on a fictional planet, Zahrah is a young girl born with forbidden vine dreadlocks (Dada), said to possess magical...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora is an anthology edited by Sheree Thomas and published in 2000. The book is a collection of short stories, novel excerpts, and short essays. As the title indicates, the...
Brown Girl in the Ring is a sci-fi novel by Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson. It was published in 1998 by Warner Aspect (now Hachette Book Group) as Hopkinson's debut novel. Set in a dystopian future, the city of Toronto has been barricaded and...
Published in 2016, Rosewater is a science fiction novel written by Nigerian-British writer Tade Thompson. Apex Publication first published it before Orbit Books acquired the rights in 2018. It is the first installment of the Wormwood trilogy...
An Unkindness of Ghosts is a sci-fi novel by American author Rivers Solomon. Published in 2017 by Akashic Books, the novel explores a society built on systemic racism in a generation ship. Inspired by the last Trans Atlantic ship to bring slaves...
The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the critically acclaimed, New York Times Bestseller series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. Published in April 2006, The Sea of Monsters is a middle-grade American fantasy novel for...
"Backwards" is a poem by writer Warsan Shire about familial strife and the desire to reverse time. First published in 2011 by flipped eye publishing, the poem appeared in Shire's collection Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. Shire is a poet and...
"For Women Who Are 'Difficult' to Love" is a poem by British writer and poet Warsan Shire about the problems experienced by women whose partners seek to limit their expression of self. Published on Shire's blog in 2012, the poem describes a...
The Rainbow is a novel as difficult as it is rewarding. At times, the intergenerational saga of the Brangwen family may seem tedious and over-stuffed with characters, many of whom share the same names. Yet in equal measure, Lawrence presents...
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848) is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. Her novel, Wuthering Heights, is considered an essential part of Gothic literature. At the same time, Brontë was also a very prolific poet...
"Outlander" is a historical fiction novel with the element of time travel fantasy by the American author Diana Gabaldon. The first novel was published in 1991 with enormous success, and is a part of a ten-novel series.
The first novel introduces...
Although she was a groundbreaking pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, Nellie Bly's name is not widely known. But it should be. In her seminal book Ten Days in a Mad-House, which she initially wrote as a series of articles for a...
American author Nikki Grimes is one of the most prolific writers for children and young adults. Dark Sons, which was released in 2005, was written for young adults and follows a boy called Sam, whose father leaves his family to go and marry a...
Louis Sachar's Fuzzy Mud is a 2015 novel about a fifth-grade girl who discovers a mysterious rash-causing substance in the forest and unwittingly saves the world from a pandemic.
On a Tuesday in November, protagonist Tamaya Dhilwaddi is ready to...
"A Daydream" is a poem by British author Emily Brontë about the transition of the seasons. Published in 1846, the poem appeared as part of a collection that Brontë released with her sisters Anne and Charlotte, titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and...
"Long Neglect Has Worn Away" is a poem by British author Emily Brontë that deals with decay and the passage of time. Originally written in 1837, the poem was published posthumously in 1902.
Brontë was born in the small village of Thornton, outside...
Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source is a novel about four generations of Kenyan women. Through their lives, Ogola traces the history of a rapidly changing country and society. The novel was published in 1994, receiving the 1995 Commonwealth...
Written by author and activist Zetta Elliot, A Place Inside of Me deals with a number of incredibly complex topics, including police brutality, racism, and race. It follows an unnamed young black boy, who describes "a place inside of me" that...
