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After hearing about his straight best friend Dale's upcoming summer adventure at a Marine Corps boot camp, Greg's ears perk up, only hearing "summer camp" in his friend's description of what he will be doing during the summer. Against his better...

Written by American author Susan Choi, Flashlight (published in 2025) reflects the mood of the novel's story, which follows a father, named Serk, and his ten-year-old daughter called Louisa. At the start of the novel, the duo walk at dusk. The...

Ben Markcoitz's The Rest of Our Lives, which was published first published in March 2025, tells the story of a man named Tom Layward, whose wife cheated on him years prior to the events of the novel. After her affair, Tom vowed to divorce his wife...

Published in 2024 by Sceptre, Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter is a decidedly English novel. Set over the course of three months -- from December 1962 to February 1963 -- the novel follows Eric Parry, who lives with his wife in the idyllic...

David Szalay's Flesh, published in 2025, tells a story as old as time: István, a fifteen-year-old boy who grew up living in a housing project in Hungary, finds success and eventually works his way into Hungary's top one-percent of income earners...

Max Porter's novella Shy was published in 2023, and tells the story of a sixteen-year-old boy named Shy, who is sent to a boarding school for the most troubled boys. The novella is set in 1995, and follows the aforementioned Shy over the course of...

In the pantheon of works by the illustrious British author and playwright Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) isn't especially well-known. This novel brings together the characters of one of Christie's previous novels, including Lady...

Originally published in German, Three Bags Full (2005) has since been translated into more than thirty languages, including English. The novel is told from the perspective of a flock of sheep who decide to investigate the murder of their shepherd,...

Harry G. Allard Jr's book Miss Nelson Is Missing was first published in 1977 and met with virtually universal critical acclaim for painting the picture of a venomous substitute teacher named Viola Swamp. The book, which was widely read by school...

Several critics have compared Ki-young Kim's 1960 film The Housemaid to Bong Joon Ho's Academy Award-winning 2019 film Parasite. Like Parasite, The Housemaid tells a story about an upper middle class family wrestling with issues of class and...

There have only been a handful of directors whose first films have captured the cultural zeitgeist like Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015). The film, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy in her breakthrough role as Thomasin, is set in the early 1600s in New...

Chilean author Isabel Allende is best known for her works of magical realism, much like Gabriel García Márquez, who helped the genre enter the cultural consciousness. Allende's In the Midst of Winter was published in 2017 and follows a Brooklyn,...

In the long history of cinema, few three-hour films have achieved both immense critical acclaim and commercial success like Sir Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Released in July 2023, the film overcame years of setbacks in "development hell"...

Oblomov is the most famous work of prominent Russian author Ivan Goncharov, published in 1859. The novel is set in mid-19th-century Russia and is seen as a brilliant satire on Russian society, particularly the aristocracy’s lifestyle, indolence,...

The Most is a contemporary novel by American author Jessica Anthony. Published by Little, Brown & Company in 2024, the novel explores a marriage on the brink of collapse. Set in 1957 in Newark, Delaware, Kathleen Beckett is a former tennis...

Martyr! is a novel by Iranian American poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar. It was published in 2014 by Knopf Publishing Group. In his debut novel, Akbar incorporates his poetry prowess and takes a crack at literary fiction. A New York Times bestseller,...

Ghostroots is a collection of short stories by Nigerian writer 'Pemi Aguda. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2024. In her debut collection, Aguda reimagines the city of Lagos, full of chaos and the supernatural, in twelve gripping...

The Lives of Lee Miller is a biographical memoir by British photographer Antony Penrose, the son of Lee Miller. It was published in 1985 and later in 1995 by Thames & Hudson. Elizabeth "Lee Miller" Penrose was born in 1907 in New York. At...

Yuval Noah Harari’s international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was originally written and published in Hebrew before appearing in its English-language edition in Great Britain in 2014, published by Harvill Secker, a division of...

Impossible Creatures is a fantasy fiction novel written by Katherine Rundell, a multi-award-winning British author known for her children’s fiction. It was published on September 14, 2023. Rundell has been celebrated for her previous works like ...

In this book from award winner Rita Bullwinkle, written in 2024, eight young girls who dream of becoming world-class boxers stories' are told. To tell their story, Bullwinkle utilizes flashbacks, going back and forth between past and present....

Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional, which was published in late 2023, tells the story of a young woman who lives in the city and is unhappy with her life. In an attempt to reconnect with her roots and rediscover who she truly is, she decides...