The Door of No Return was initially published in September of 2022 by Little, Brown and Company. It follows an eleven-year-old named Kofi Offin, who has intense dreams of water and the Earth. Kofi often hears the call from the river from his...

Tomorrow When the War Began was initially published 1993 by Pan Macmillan's Australian imprint. Marsden's second novel (but his first in quite a few years), Tomorrow When the War Began is described by the publisher as a "young adult invasion...

The Boys from Biloxi is set to be released in October of 2022 and will be published by author John Grisham's longtime publisher, Doubleday.

The second of five children, John Grisham was born in February 2015 to Ronda and John Ray Grisham, a...

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” is a poem by Tracy K. Smith which appears in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Conceived as a tribute to the author’s father who had worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the collection is...

"Ghazal" is a historical poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was published in the Wade in the Water collection by Graywolf Press in 2018. The collection won the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the 2018 Forward Prizes for...

"Sci-Fi" is a poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was included in the Life on Mars collection published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. The collection is a lament for the poet's father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope at the National...

"The Journey" was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "The Journey" is one of Oliver's most widely read and well-respected works; it is a significant part...

"The Black Walnut," Mary Oliver's poem was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. The poem, which many have considered to be semi-autobiographical, is widely...

"Good-bye Fox," Mary Oliver's poem, was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "Good-bye Fox," one of the most cited works of Devotions, is an exploration of...

Mary Oliver's "The Swan" was originally published in 2010 in her collection of poems entitled Swan: Poems and Prose. "The Swan," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Oliver is best known...

Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" was initially published in 2004 in her collection of poems entitled Wild Geese: Selected Poems. "Wild Geese," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Much of...

Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" was originally published in 1992 in her collection of poems entitled New and Selected Poems. "The Summer Day," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a part of that collection.

"The Summer Day" is a...

R.F. Kuang's Babel was published in 2022 by HarperCollins. The year is 1828, and cholera has run roughshod in Canton, Wales, leaving Robin Swift orphaned. Desperate and alone, Robin is brought to London by mysterious Professor Lovell to train in...

Published by Tor in 2015, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps is a debut fantasy novella by American author Kai Ashante Wilson. Akin to the previous short stories, the tale takes place in the same fictional universe created by Wilson.

The story follows...

Published in 1981 by Bantam Books, Little, Big is a novel which critics called a "neglected masterpiece." The novel tells the story of a man named Smoky Barnable. He travels by foot from a city to another place called Edgewood. There, he intends...

Published in 1985, Deep Wizardry is a fantasy novel written by American author Diane Duane. It is the second book in the Young Wizards fantasy series following the novel So You Want to be a Wizard (1983). It was followed by High Wizardry (1993)...

First published in 1983, So You Want to Be a Wizard is a young adult fantasy novel written by American author Diane Duane. It is the first book of the long-running series known as Young Wizards consisting of ten more novels. The sequel to the...

Published in 1995, Assassin's Apprentice is an epic fantasy novel written by Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden under the pen name Robin Hobb. The sequels include Royal Assassin (1996) and Assassin's Quest (1997) which make up The Farseer Trilogy.

The...

Ellen Kushner's debut, Swordspoint, was originally published in 1987. It tells the story of a swordsman-for hire named Richard St Vier, who one day kills two men at a party thrown by an important lord. At the behest of the people around the town...

Published in 1986 by Arbor House, The Darkest Road is a fantasy novel written by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay. The novel is the culmination of the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy that follows the five young heroes in their fight with dark forces. It...

The Wandering Fire is a fantasy novel written by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It was published in 1986 as the second book in The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy following The Summer Tree (1984). It was followed by the final book The Darkest Road...