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Fredrik Backman is a blogger and novelist born on June 2, 1981 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Before he published his first novel in 2012, Backman wrote for various publications, including Helsingborgs Dagblad and Moore Magazine. However, A Man Called...

The Amber Spyglass is a young adult fantasy novel written by Philip Pullman, first published in 2000. It is the third and final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, preceded by The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife.

All three books take place...

The Subtle Knife is a novel written by Philip Pullman that was published in 1997. This book is actually the second installment of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman is an English author whose writing is based heavily on religion and...

The Impossible Knife of Memory is a 2014 Young Adult novel by American author Laurie Halse Anderson. It explores the life of the protagonist, Hayley Kincaid, and her father, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after returning from...

Lauren Groff was early on considered a promising writer. Currently, one can hardly find a person who would doubt as to whether she has a talent or not. Her first novel reached a status of bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Its review was...

This name of the author of this collection is well-known among readers who favor short stories over novels. Being the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and many more, Ann Beattie has proved that her genius can...

Mia Couto, born in 1955 as Antonio Emilio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican writer of Portuguese descent. He has said himself that growing up in Beira, Mozambique with immigrant parents meant he was brought up in a blend of European and African...

The Dark Forest is a near-future apocalyptic science fiction novel written by Liu Cixin. The novel is the second in a trilogy (called "Remembrance of Earth's Past") and is the sequel to the first novel. Cixin is a renowned Chinese author who...

A three-part novel, Seveneves was written by Neal Stephenson and published in 2015. Stephenson is an American author who is most well known for his science fiction novels. Though his works have been categorized in many different genres, Stephenson...

Published in 2015, The Sunken Cathedral is a novel written by Kate Walbert. The protagonist’s name is Marie. Simone has been Marie’s best for decades, ever since they survived WWII in France together and immigrated to New York City together. For...

First published in 2009, A Short History of Women was written by Kate Walbert and traces the complicated relationships and interactions between the histories and futures of mothers and daughters. The novel traces five generations of women from the...

Juan Gabrile Vasquez is an author from Colombia. After studying in Bogota, Vasquez traveled the world, living in places like Paris, Belgium, and Barcelona. Along the way he received a doctorate in Latin American Literature. Although he...

Written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints Day (published in 2015) is a collection of very interesting stories. One story follows the story of a Columbian reporter who witnesses an exceptionally gruesome murder. Another tells the story...

The Sound of Things Falling is a novel written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, a Colombian author, and the book was actually published in 2011 in Spanish first. In 2013, Anne McLean published the English translation, which won the 2014 International...

Saint Mazie is a novel written by Jami Attenberg and published in 2015. Set in America during the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, Saint Mazie tells the story of a woman living in New York City named Mazie Phillips. She owns The Venice, a famous...

The Middlesteins is a novel about compulsive eating: psychotic-level, obsessive-compulsive eating. It is also a comedy, though—as one must surely suspect—the humor is of a hue well beyond the blackest of patent leather. A comedy about a man who...

The Festival of Insignificance is a seven-part novel by Czech-born French author Milan Kundera. The novel was first published in French in 2013 and translated into English in 2015 by Linda Asher. The Festival of Insignificance shares its...

The Hand that Feeds You is a 2015 psychological thriller/mystery novel by A.J. Rich, a pseudonym for award-winning authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment. It features a graduate student studying victim psychology who comes home to find her boyfriend...

The Well is a novel by Elizabeth Jolley, an Australian-English author. It was published on September 1, 1986 by Penguin Books. The narrative presents information about two girls (Hester and Katherine) who become closer to each other more and more...

Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907 is an account written by Robert Blobaum. It covers the revolution in Poland in 1905 which led to large and significant changes politically. Blobaum, the author of this work, is the Eberly Family Distinguished...

A Theory of Justice is a work that was published in 1971 and was written by John Rawls. Rawls is a moral and political philosopher who has won many awards, held many prestigious positions, and made democracy be seen in a much better light....

Eleanor and Park was written by Rainbow Rowell in 2013 and was published by St. Martin’s Press. It is Rainbow Rowell’s second book and her first for young adults, and received significant critical acclaim upon its publication- it received a...

Annie Dillard started to write Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the srping of 1973, a book detailing her explorations of Tinker Creek, a Virginia valley near Roanoke. The book documents her year in Tinker Creek, stalking wildlife and studying the flora...

Sandor Marai was a Hungarian novelist and journalist best known for his 1942 work Embers. He was born to a noble family in what is now Kosice, Slovakia in 1900. As a young child, Marai's family traveled extensively and he was exposed to various...