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It would be fair to say that American author Ann Napolitano is one of the most widely read and important authors of her time. Hello Beautiful, Napolitano's fourth novel inspired by Little Women and first published in 2023, cements her legacy as...

The Mysterious Benedict Society, which was published in 2007, is the first novel in author Trenton Lee Stewart's quartet of children's novels called "The Mysterious Benedict Society." The Mysterious Benedict Society (2007) follows four children...

English author Philip Reeve began his career as an illustrator, something which is reflected in his writing style. Unlike some other writers, Reeve doesn't plan before he writes. Instead, he starts writing with an opening and closing image in...

Few know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work outside of his most famous character: Sherlock Holmes. But Doyle was a prolific writer who crafted some of the best short stories in existence. One such short story is called "How It Happened," which was...

Mona Awad's Bunny was first published in June 2019. Awad's novel follows a young woman named Samantha Heather Mackey, who feels like an outsider in her tiny and incredibly selective Master of Fine Art Arts program at a university in New England....

Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six was first published in 2019 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller, selling millions of copies in countries across the world. Reid's novel received mostly positive reviews.

In their review, ...

November 9, which was initially published in 2015, is a novel about fate, its connection to love, and love at first sight. It tells the story of a young woman named Fallon, who one day—by pure happenstance—meets a young man named Ben, who wants to...

It would be difficult to distill the experiences of a generation of English children who lived through World War II into a single volume, let alone a children's book. The War That Saved My Life, which was published in 2015, does just that. It...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu Nigeria Sto a middle-class family and was raised with a strong emphasis on education and literature. Her experiences growing up in Nigeria and witnessing the socio-political issues faced by her...

Hang Kang's Human Acts was first published serially in an online literary magazine from 2013 to 2014 and published in book form in 2014. It is a dramatization of the so-called Gwangju Uprising, which took place in South Korea in 1980 and aimed to...

Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mule, the Fox and the Horse is a children's illustrated book first published in 2019. The novel examines the relationship between the four people—the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse—mentioned in the title of...

The Other Side of Truth was published in 2000. It was inspired by real-life events from 1995 and is told from the perspective of a young girl named Sade Solaja, who immigrated from Nigeria at a young age after her mother was shot and killed by the...

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) is Holly Jackson's debut novel. Jackson, 30, had long wanted to write a novel. She started to write A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, a "true crime obsession." Prior to writing the novel, Jackson devoured...

Horse: A Novel is a historical fiction novel written by Australian-American author Geraldine Brooks. It was published by Viking on 14th June 2022. Brooks based the story on the renowned Thoroughbred horse Lexington.

In 2019, Theo—a Nigerian...

Chain of Iron was published in 2021. It follows the so-called Shadowhunters, a group led by Cordelia Carstairs (who is set to be married to a man she had courted for some time), which investigates killers in early 1990s England. At first, they...

Doctor Thorne is the third entry in the series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope. The novel was originally published in 1858. In addition to being the third in the series, Doctor Thorne is also the...

The Warden is the first entry in Anthony Trollope's The Barsetshire Chronicles trilogy. First published in 1855, The Warden tells the story of Mr. Septimus Harding, the aging warden of Hiram's Hospital, which provides homes to the poor.

Although...

Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks was originally published in serial form in 1865 and as a novel in 1866. Oliphant's novel follows the eponymous Lucilla Marjoribanks, an aristocratic woman forced to live in the backward English town of...

Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Laidlaw, Canada. Monroe specialized in writing English short stories. In 2013, Munro won the prestigious Nobel Prize in literature. Other notable awards won by Munro include the Governor's General Award (1968, 1978,...

Author Sharon Creech's Love That Dog was first published in 2001 by HarperCollins. Written in free verse in the form of daily diary entries, Creech's novel tells the story of a young boy named Jack. At the start of Love That Dog, Jack is portrayed...

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is a romance novel published in 2016 by Atria Publishers Limited. The central character is Lily Bloom, and the novel is about the doomed relationship between her parents and her failed marriage with Ryle Kincaid....

Frank Herbert is among the most widely read and celebrated science fiction authors ever. In 1965's Dune, Herbert wrote one of the most enduring science fiction novels ever. The follow-up to that novel is entitled Dune Messiah and was published in...

James McBride's Deacon King Kong was first published in March 2020 by Riverhead Books. The novel, which is set in Brooklyn, New York in 1969, tells the story of an old church deacon who is known as Sportcoat. One day, Sportcoat takes a gun out of...