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Fever Dream is a novel by Argentinian author Samantha Schweblin. Initially titled Distancia de rescate, and written in Spanish, it was published in 2014. It was later translated for the English-speaking world by Megan McDowell and published in...

The Lost Daughter was published by Elena Ferrante in 2006 with the first English translation reaching bookstores two years later. That original publication date was a full decade before Ferrante would be named one of the 100 Most Influential...

The Last Black Unicorn is an autobiographical book written by stand-up comedian, actress, and author Tiffany Haddish published on 5th December 2017. In 2017, she had her breakout role in the film Girls Trip which escalated her comedic and film...

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a memoir by American actress Issa Rae. Published by 37 Ink in 2015, the book explores Rae's life and chronicles her experiences as an introverted African-American girl in a collection of stories and...

The Housing Lark is a novel written by a Trinidad-born writer and journalist Samuel Selvon. The novel presents a comedic caricature of the experience of the West Indian immigrants in London. It shows the life and interactions of people of various...

Published on 26th October 2021, Daughter of the Deep is a science fiction novel written by New York Bestselling author Rick Riordan. The standalone book is a departure from Riordan’s pentalogy book series such as Percy Jackson & the Olympians...

The Thursday Murder Club seems like a no-brainer for someone connected with British television to eventually come to write. After all, the list of memorable British crime dramas is longer than the list of memorable American detective novels. Where...

In 2018, journalist Abe Streep published an article in the New York Times Magazine about a basketball team situated on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Arlee, Montana. Three years later he published a greater expanded version of that article as...

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City is a novel by American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliot. Initially published in 2013 as a five-part article for The New York Times, Elliot expanded it into a book....

Kate DiCamillo is a wildly successful author of children’s novels probably most famous and familiar to readers as the author of Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. In addition to penning the popular Mercy Watson series for younger...

Pony is a historical fiction novel written by R. J. Palacio that was published on 28 September 2021. The novel is set in the American frontier in 1860 and blends the historical elements with magical realism. In the same vein as True Grit and War...

As part of her ongoing attempt to recapture that lightning in a bottle which made her a household name in millions of households around the globe with the publication of the original Harry Potter novel, J.K. Rowling published The Christmas Pig in...

Anyone even just remotely familiar with the highlight reel of ancient Greek mythology is likely to recognize exactly where the author Pat Barker has placed the reader in the opening scene of her 2021 novel, The Women of Troy. The very first words...

One Last Stop is a romance novel written by the bestselling author Casey McQuiston that was published in June 2021. Her sophomore book akin to the debut Red, White & Royal Blue delves into the romantic relationships in the LGBTQ communities....

Palmares is the long-awaited epic novel by American author Gayl Jones. Published in 2021 by Beacon Press, the novel had been in the works for almost forty years. Set in 17th-century Brazil, a group of slaves escapes servitude to build a thriving...

The Book of Form and Emptiness is a contemporary novel by Japanese American filmmaker and novelist Ruth Ozeki. Published in 2021 by Viking, the novel is a coming of age story that deals with grief, physical and mental growth, and our relationships...

The first installment of the “Between Earth and Sky” series Black Sun is a high fantasy novel authored by Rebecca Roanhorse. It was published on 13 October 2021 and nominated for multiple awards including the 2021 Locus Award, Nebula Award, and...

Great Circle is a novel by American novelist Maggie Shipstead. Published in 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf, the novel explores the lives of two women in parallel. Marian Graves is a 20th century aviator who goes missing in 1950, while attempting to fly...

Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Published in 2021 by Ballantine Books, the novel explores a near future event when Ryland Grace is catapulted into the farthest edges of space, on a mission to save humanity. The...

Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses is a young-adult novel set in a parallel world in which the native people of Africa (Cafrique in the novel) colonized the rest of the world. Crosses (dark-skinned descendants of people from Cafrique) are...

“Where the Dead Sit Talking” is a novel that intertwines the Native American traditional aspects with a story about a young boy, coming from a troubled family, struggling to grow up and find his identity and place in the world. The young boy,...

“American Rust” is a novel set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania, and it explores the struggles of survival and financial decline, as well as intricate familial and friendship relationships. The novel sets up the plot with the information that...

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), born Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto, is one of the best-known poets of the twentieth century, and is regarded as one of the finest Spanish-language poets of his time: writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously...

“The Description of Cooke-ham” is the last poem in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611), a book which made Lanyer the first Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of poetry. “Cooke-ham” is the first published country-house poem,...