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Green Eggs and Ham is one of Dr. Seuss' many classic books for children. It tells the story of Sam-I-Am, who implores his friend to eat a plate of green eggs and ham in nearly a half dozen places. However, his friend doesn't want to eat green eggs...

In One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - one of Dr. Seuss' countless classic children's books - Seuss tells the story of a young boy and girl named Jay and Kay, both of whom have fantastical creatures that are both friends and pets. At its core,...

In The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, which is the sequel to Dr. Seuss' ultra-famous The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss once again tells the story of the eponymous Cat in the Hat, who one day comes back to Sally and her brother's house when their mother...

In Horton Hears a Who!, which is no doubt one of Dr. Seuss' most famous and widely-read books, Dr. Seuss tells the story of the eponymous Horton the elephant, who continually goes out of his way to save the people of Whoville from the evil animals...

Although he is best-known for his full-length children's books, Dr. Seuss wrote quite a few shorter stories for children. Three of those stories are collected in Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, including "Yertle the Turtle," which tells the...

In Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, acclaimed and prolific author Dr. Seuss tells the story of eponymous Thidwick the Moose, a kind creature who allows an incredibly interesting and diverse group of creatures take refuges in his antlers. But when...

It was in 1940's Horton Hatches the Egg that Dr. Seuss introduced the general public to Horton the Elephant, who would become one of his most famous characters. In Horton Hatches the Egg, the eponymous Horton is tricked into sitting on a bird's...

Dr. Seuss' The King's Stilts (originally published in 1939) tells the rather whimsical story of King Birtram of Binn. This monarch is obsessed with protecting his kingdom from floods (caused by the destruction of pike trees by the evil nizzards)...

In 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (originally published in 1938), prolific and respected author Dr. Seuss crafts a modern fairy tale. Here, the author tells the story of a young peasant named Bartholomew Cubbins who is constantly mistreated by a...

Over the course of his long and illustrious career, Dr. Seuss wrote dozens of children's books. Among his most famous books is And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (first published in 1937), which tells the story of a young boy named Marco....

Although it was never fully completed, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan (originally published in the Middle Ages) tells the story of a love story between a knight named Tristan and the daughter of a queen named Isolde. The trouble is: Tristan is...

Although she is best known for her novels, Ann Beattie has written dozens of short stories. Some of those stories are collected in Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories (originally published in 1976, but reissued in 2002). Many of the people in...

In his book The Color of Law, author and historian Richard Rothstein makes the case that the modern American metropolis was created with deliberate, de jure segregation, with the help of things including racial zoning, redlining, and a phenomenon...

Isabel Wilkerson's debut book The Warmth of Other Suns (published in 2010) is a study of the first two Great Migrations in the United States, which saw millions of African Americans migrate from Southern to Northern States from 1915 to 1970 (the...

As its title suggests, Stamped from the Beginning is a book about racism. Particularly, the book is about how racism was deeply ingrained in America: how racism and racist ideas were created, how they spread, and how they took roots in American...

Japanese author Yoko Ogawa was inspired by the works of Franz Kafka and George Orwell (particularly his book 1984) in writing her science fiction novel The Memory Police (published in Japanese in 1994; published in English in 2019), which tells...

In her English-language debut, Mexican author Fernanda Melchor tells the story of a young girl in sixth grade named Fig, who so desperately wants to understand her mentally ill father. Drawing from books about acclaimed artist Vincent Van Gogh,...

In her debut novel entitled Conversations with Friends (2017), Irish author Sally Rooney tells the story of two female college students who start a rather strange and unorthodox relationship they start with a seemingly happily married couple. Both...

Written by Chilean author Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives tells the story of the search for a Mexican poet from the 1920s called Cesárea Tinajero. The novel is set in the late 1970s and chronicles two Latin poets' search for the Tinajero...

In Circe (2018), American author Madeline Miller tells the story of Homer's The Odyssey from the point of view of the eponymous Circe. Although Circe is a relatively strange and abnormal child - she's neither pretty like her mother nor powerful...

In what is one of his many children's books, British writer Roald Dahl's George's Marvelous Medicine (1981) tells, as the book's title suggests, George's story. Specifically, the book follows George as he has to deal with his cantankerous and...

Over the course of his long and illustrious career, British author Roald Dahl wrote approximately two dozen books. Among those books was The Twits (1979), which is one of Dahl's many children's books. It follows a couple called Mr. and Mrs Twit,...

John Cheever's “The Five-Forty-Eight” was first published on April 10, 1954 in The New Yorker. Four years later, the story was reprinted as part of a collection of Cheever's short stories, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. The short story examines...

Existentialism Is a Humanism is a piece of literature published in 1946 and produced by Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. It was based on his famous lecture given at Club Maintenant in Paris, on 29...