River Sing Me Home, published in 2023, is the debut novel of British author Eleanor Shearer. Inspired by the real but often overlooked histories of emancipation in the Caribbean, the novel combines historical realism with lyrical storytelling. It...

Natalie L. Hynes was born in 1974 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and graduated from Cambridge University. Before venturing into her writing career, Hynes worked s as a comedian in several television stations as both a comedian and a panelist. When...

Empire of Wild is a novel by Cherie Dimaline, first published in 2019. Set in Canada, Empire of Wild tells the story of a young indigenous woman named Joan Beausoliel, who has spent the past year searching for her husband, named Victor after he...

Author Cherie Dimaline's VenCo: A Novel was first published on February 7, 2023. VenCo follows a young millennial named Lucky St. James who lives in a small apartment in Toronto with her grandmother, named Stella. One night, Lucky hearts the calls...

Acclaimed author Cherie Dimaline's Hunting by Stars was first published in late 2021. Hunting by Stars is set in a world in chaos. Because of natural disasters and different diseases, much of the human population has been decimated. And as a...

Dear Edward is a novel published by Ann Napolitano in 2020. On May 12, 2010, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed as it was flying into Tripoli's airport, just a little over a thousand yards short of the runway. The entire crew and all but one...

Abaddon’s Gate, the third installment of The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, was published on June 4, 2013, in the United States. The series is renowned for blending hard science fiction, political intrigue, and philosophical inquiry,...

Caliban's War is the second novel in James S.A. Corey's (the pen name for authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) "The Expanse" series. Caliban's War takes place in three places: Ganymede, Earth, and a spaceship. The story of Ganymede follows a...

In the distant future, humanity has conquered much of the solar system. The Earth, which is ruled by the United Nations, is at odds with a group ruled by the Martian Congressional Republic. That is the set-up for James S.A. Corey's (the pen name...

The Empty Grave is the fifth, final, and most recent entry in British author Jonathan Stroud's "Lockwood and Co." series. Published in 2017, Stroud's novel is set four months after the events of The Creeping Shadow, the previous novel in Stroud's...

"Lockwood and Co." is one of the most successful young adult novel series of all time. The Creeping Shadow, the fourth entry in that series which was published in September 2016, once again follows the namesake Lockwood and Co., a group of young...

The Hollow Boy, published in 2016, is the third of a total of five books in Jonathan Stroud's "Lockwood and Co." series. As with previous novels in the series, The Hollow Boy follows the namesake Lockwood and Co., a group of young people who work...

The Whispering Skull, which was published in 2014 by publisher Disney-Hyperion, is the second novel in author Jonathan Stroud's acclaimed young adult series "Lockwood and Co." In The Whispering Skull, the number of spirits and hauntings have...

The Screaming Staircase, which was published by Disney in 2013, is the first novel in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood and Co. series. The Screaming Staircase is set in present-day London during "the Problems," or an event that led to the emergence of...

Five Tuesdays in Winter is author Lily King's collection of short stories first published in late 2021. Although each story in Five Tuesdays in Winter is somewhat thematically connected, they tell different stories. One story, for instance, tells...

Forbidden City is a historical fiction novel written by American author Vanessa Hua. She is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer born in California. Hua is the author of the short story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities and A...

Published on 12th April 2022, Unlikely Animals is a contemporary novel written by American author Annie Hartnett. She is an acclaimed writer whose work Rabbit Cake was recognized by several platforms as one of the best books of the year. While...

Monkey Boy is a novel published in 2022 by a writer named Francisco Goldman featuring a narrator and protagonist named Francisco Goldberg who is also a writer. Though categorized strictly as a novel, it quickly becomes apparent that readers must...

The title of Jonathan Evison's novel Small World, which was published in 2022 by Dutton, is an oxymoron. The novel is set during some of the most significant periods in human history: the California gold rush, the creation of the Transcontinental...

Stacey D'Erasmo's The Complicities was first published in September 2022 by Algonquin Books. Although it is a short novel, its story packs a massive punch. Fundamentally, The Complicities tells the story an older woman who deals with the fallout...

Fellowship Point, which was published in 2022, tells the story of two women who have forged a lifelong friendship. Together, they have spent nearly eighty summers together on the coast of Maine. And though they are similar in many ways, they are...

The Family Chao, published in early 2022, is Lan Samantha Chang's book which explores what it means to be a family and the immigrant experience. It follows the eponymous Chang family, who have run a Chinese restaurant together for nearly...

First published in 2022, Maud Casey's City of Incurable Women is a novel comprised of a collection of short stories that collectively tell the story of women who have been institutionalized in Paris, France's Salpêtrière mental hospital. For many...