Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World is thought to have been first published in 1666, is considered one of the first examples of science fiction novels. The novel follows a young woman named Lady Margaret, who discovers a portal to an alternate...

Brigid Delaney is a leading Australian travel journalist working for the Guardian as a senior columnist and speechwriter for federal Ministers. Besides working for the Guardian, Delaney has authored two famous books in her native Australian native...

Richard Russo's Straight Man (1997) is a novel about William Henry Devereaux, Jr.'s (also called "Hank") mid-life crisis. Russo's novel is set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania and follows the aforementioned Hank, the misanthropic chairman of...

Egil Krogh's Integrity (2007) is a book about the Watergate scandal, which rocked the United States and forced President Richard Nixon to resign. In his book, Krogh examines his role as the lawyer in charge of the group called "the plumbers," who...

Greg Laurie and Ellen Vaughn's Jesus Revolution (2018) is a history of the so-called "Jesus Movement," which swept across the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. That movement, which Laurie and Vaughn say breathed new life into Christianity,...

Raymond Chandler, the creator of the Phillip Marlowe character, died in 1959. However, his estate enlisted the help of authors worldwide to ensure that more stories involving Marlowe continued to be told. Benjamin Melville (operating under the...

Edo Van Belkom's Wolf Pack (published in 2004) is the first novel in Belkom's Wolf Pack series. It tells the story of Ranger Garrett Brock, who rescues a litter of wolf pups from incoming fire and brings them home. However, soon after Brock brings...

Miriam Towes' Women Talking (2018) is a novel about a series of rapes in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia. A group of men sprayed a veterinary sedative into women's homes around the colony, rendering them unconscious. After that, they broke...

The Lying Life of Adults is a novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante, which was first published in Italian in 2019 and later translated into English in a novel published in 2020. The book tells the story of Giovanna, a young girl from...

Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is set in the 1960s. It follows Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who is struggling to integrate into a world that is not equal and dominated by men. Zott generally doesn't like dealing with other chemists, but...

Martin J. Sherwin spent much of his long and illustrious career researching the book that became American Prometheus, originally published in 2005. For twenty years, Sherwin studied and outlined American Prometheus, a biography about divisive...

Sofie Cramer's Text for You (2022) is a novel about Clara, a young woman eagerly awaiting her marriage to her fiance. However, after a night of intense arguing, Clara's fiance gets into a nasty accident and dies. Clara feels guilty and blames...

Laline Paull's Pod (2023) is set in the depths of the ocean, which has traditionally been far from the reach of humans. However, humans have begun to encroach on this previously unexplored place, destroying it. Pod is told from the perspective of...

Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait (2022) is a novel about Lucrezia di Cosimo de'Medici, a young woman who lives in Florence, Italy, in 1550. One day, at 15, Lucrezia's parents inform her that she will marry Alfonso II d'Este, a much older...