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Fingersmith could aptly be described in the following sentence: Fingersmith is a historical crime/erotic novel set during the Victorian era in Britain. The book tells the story of Sue Trinder and Maud (in the first section, Sue controls the...

A 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah is considered one of the most significant postcolonial novels in recent times. This is his fifth novel and one of the prominent works to have emerged in his canon. It was...

Kitty Hart Moxon was only fifteen years old when she was imprisoned in German death camp Auschwitz-Berkenau; seventy years later, she returns to the camp, taking with her two teenage girls the same age as she was when she first passed through the...

Published in 1973, Sula is Toni Morrison’s second novel. Like her first novel, The Bluest Eye, this one also deals with the life experiences of two black girls. Yet it does not merely address the childhood experiences but follows the girls as they...

Avatar is a science-fiction movie directed and produced by James Cameron, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was released on December 10, 2009. The film is set in the middle of the 22nd century, and follows the colonization of Pandora, a moon...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is a book of the collected speeches of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg (there are eleven of her speeches included in the book). All of her speeches involve the grave threat climate change poses to the...

From an incredibly young age, Phillis Wheatley showed an immense precocity for the written word, and gained international acclaim for her elegy "On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770." Many of Wheatley's writings center around religious...

The War of the Worlds is a science-fiction classic. First released in serial form in 1897, The War of the Worlds was later released as a book in 1898 through William Heinemann of London. Though it was published after some of Wells' major works...

Released on September 10th, 2019 (6 days prior to this writing), She Said by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey is already a best seller on Amazon -- and likely at The New York Times when they release their bestseller lists.

At its core, She...

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a lyrical Romantic ballad written by poet John Keats. An unknown speaker begins a conversation with a lonely knight on the road, reflecting the ballad's roots in an oral tradition. Employing colloquial language, the...

Richard Wright wrote only a handful of published poems during his life. However, those he did publish were incredibly important to race relations in the United States (which is the consistent theme throughout his work). Born in 1908 in Mississippi...

At the Full and Change of the Moon is a book written by the Canadian poet Dionne Brand. The paperback spans over 320 pages of lyrical plot-driven action. It was first published in 1999 by Granta Books, Grove Press, and Knopf Canada, before being...

Mohja Kahf is a “Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor", born in 1967. She has a growing collection of published work that ranges from poetry, articles in journals and anthologies, fiction, prose, and scholarship. Some of her notable work...

Although a work of fiction, The Well of Loneliness was almost like a memoir for its author, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, who was herself a lesbian who spent a large part of her dating years chasing women who were married at the time. Like the book's...

The Unfortunate Traveller is a picaresque novel, which means that the hero of the story is a rogue living by his wits, usually from the lower classes of society. The best known example of this is Monsieur Thernadiere, the crafty hostelry owner in...

Senator Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance (released in April 2014) is a New York Times Bestseller, a rarity for a political book -- let alone for a political book of a then-inspiring Senator from Massachusetts. Primarily, the book is memoir. It...

Andrew Yang's 2018 book The War on Normal People is an interesting book. Released as a way for Yang to deliver his central campaign policies, Yang discusses things like technology change, automation, the economy (and jobs), and one of his core...

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (released in 2007) is a memoir chronicling Joe Biden's life and career in the United States senate (where he represented Delaware from 1973 until he became Vice President in 2009). The book chronicles Biden's...

In many ways, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Promise is former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden's 2020 campaign book. Secondarily, though, the book chronicles the Biden families 2014, a year in which they lost their...

At its core, An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream is a campaign book. A campaign book for former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas and former HUD secretary under President Obama Julian Castro as he prepared for his 2020 Presidential...

In 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont ran what many considered to be a highly successful presidential campaign for the Democratic party. So successful, in fact, that some supporters believe that he should have beaten Hillary Clinton and won...

Although Cory Booker is perhaps most famous for calling himself "Spartacus" on the Senate floor (referencing Stanley Kubrick's film of the same name). However, Booker is also a candidate for the Democrat Party for the 2020 election (against...

The Senator Next Door is Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar's memoir. The blurb on the book describes its content very well: "One of the U.S. Senate's most candid--and funniest--women tells the story of her life and her unshakable faith in our...

Becoming is a twenty-four chapter memoir by former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. More celebrity than political figure, Mrs Obama is said to have employed the services of a ghostwriter to help her put her memories, experiences...