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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a memoir by American actress Issa Rae. Published by 37 Ink in 2015, the book explores Rae's life and chronicles her experiences as an introverted African-American girl in a collection of stories and...

The Housing Lark is a novel written by a Trinidad-born writer and journalist Samuel Selvon. The novel presents a comedic caricature of the experience of the West Indian immigrants in London. It shows the life and interactions of people of various...

Published on 26th October 2021, Daughter of the Deep is a science fiction novel written by New York Bestselling author Rick Riordan. The standalone book is a departure from Riordan’s pentalogy book series such as Percy Jackson & the Olympians...

The Thursday Murder Club seems like a no-brainer for someone connected with British television to eventually come to write. After all, the list of memorable British crime dramas is longer than the list of memorable American detective novels. Where...

In 2018, journalist Abe Streep published an article in the New York Times Magazine about a basketball team situated on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Arlee, Montana. Three years later he published a greater expanded version of that article as...

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City is a novel by American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliot. Initially published in 2013 as a five-part article for The New York Times, Elliot expanded it into a book....

Kate DiCamillo is a wildly successful author of children’s novels probably most famous and familiar to readers as the author of Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. In addition to penning the popular Mercy Watson series for younger...

Pony is a historical fiction novel written by R. J. Palacio that was published on 28 September 2021. The novel is set in the American frontier in 1860 and blends the historical elements with magical realism. In the same vein as True Grit and War...

As part of her ongoing attempt to recapture that lightning in a bottle which made her a household name in millions of households around the globe with the publication of the original Harry Potter novel, J.K. Rowling published The Christmas Pig in...

Anyone even just remotely familiar with the highlight reel of ancient Greek mythology is likely to recognize exactly where the author Pat Barker has placed the reader in the opening scene of her 2021 novel, The Women of Troy. The very first words...

One Last Stop is a romance novel written by the bestselling author Casey McQuiston that was published in June 2021. Her sophomore book akin to the debut Red, White & Royal Blue delves into the romantic relationships in the LGBTQ communities....

Palmares is the long-awaited epic novel by American author Gayl Jones. Published in 2021 by Beacon Press, the novel had been in the works for almost forty years. Set in 17th-century Brazil, a group of slaves escapes servitude to build a thriving...

Published in 2021, The Book of Form and Emptiness stands as one of Ozeki's most profound and inventive works, blending realism, philosophy, and metafiction to explore how people make meaning in a noisy, material world.

The story follows Benny Oh,...

The first installment of the “Between Earth and Sky” series Black Sun is a high fantasy novel authored by Rebecca Roanhorse. It was published on 13 October 2021 and nominated for multiple awards including the 2021 Locus Award, Nebula Award, and...

Great Circle is a novel by American novelist Maggie Shipstead. Published in 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf, the novel explores the lives of two women in parallel. Marian Graves is a 20th century aviator who goes missing in 1950, while attempting to fly...

Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Published in 2021 by Ballantine Books, the novel explores a near future event when Ryland Grace is catapulted into the farthest edges of space, on a mission to save humanity. The...

“Where the Dead Sit Talking” is a novel that intertwines the Native American traditional aspects with a story about a young boy, coming from a troubled family, struggling to grow up and find his identity and place in the world. The young boy,...

“American Rust” is a novel set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania, and it explores the struggles of survival and financial decline, as well as intricate familial and friendship relationships. The novel sets up the plot with the information that...

Of Grammatology is a three-part philosophical text by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Originally titled De la grammatologie, it was published in 1967 by Les Éditions de Minuit in France. It was later translated for the English world by Gayatri...

“Eat Drink Man Woman” is a Taiwanese comedy movie that revolves around a family dealing with daily life and drama that comes with it. The title of the movie is a reference to one of Confucius teachings about the acceptance of the human natural...

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel by the author who draws inspiration from many classical tales, and re-tells them in a new light. This novel is a re-telling of the classic Cinderella, and as the title suggests, focuses on one of...

For almost the first decade of its existence, Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West was like a precious little secret treasure held dearly by those in the know. Fans of the novel tended to be...

Neverwhere is a novel by the famous author Neil Gaiman, and what is interesting about it is that it was written and published as a companion to a TV series. A few episodes into the show of the same name, the author decided to publish the novel,...

Magic's Price is an epic fantasy novel by American author Mercedes Lackey. It is the third and final novel in the Valdemar: The Last Herald Mage series and eighth in the Valdemar universe. It was published in 1990 by DAW books. A magical and...