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Canadian author Alice Munro is perhaps best-known for her short stories. Through her long and illustrious career, which came to an end in May of 2024 when she died at the age of 92, Munro wrote many short stories about the human condition. Several...

Author Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's idea for Random Family, which was published in 2003 by Scribner, was born out of her article for Newsday about the trial of an infamous heroin dealer named "Boy George," who became so wildly successful that many...

Along with Christopher Isherwood, British author Alan Hollinghurst is best known for brining gay literature into the mainstream. His most famous novel, The Line of Beauty, which was published in 2004, did just that for people across the world....

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is an ethnographic study written by anthropologist and physician Seth Holmes. It was published on 10th June 2013 by University of California Press. The book looks into the lives of migrant farmworkers from Mexico,...

The Eyes and the Impossible is a middle-grade novel written by American writer Dave Eggers. It explores themes of friendship, freedom, and the natural world. This book, illustrated by Shawn Harris, was published in 2023 and has since received...

Five Little Indians is a historical fiction novel by Cree writer Michelle Good. HarperCollins published it in April 2020. The novel received several accolades including the Governor General’s Literary Award. Good developed the novel while pursuing...

Never Whistle at Night is a horror anthology co-edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst. Hawk is a member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho tribe and an emerging voice in Native American literature, while Van Alst is an author and academic of Lakota...

Published in 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, Wandering Stars is a novel written by Tommy Orange. The author is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Wandering Stars follows his debut novel There There (2018), which garnered widespread...

Kairos is a novel published in German in 2021 by Jenny Erpenbeck. The story became the first written by a German author to win the International Booker Prize which honors both the author and translator of a foreign language book that has been...

Ormond; or, the Secret Witness (published in 1799), was written by Pennsylvania-born writer Charles Brockden Brown. In many ways, Ormond is a book about the ideals of the American founding. Throughout the book, Brown contends with some of the most...

Along with Iron Man (2008), Kenneth Branagh's Thor (which was released in 2011) kickstarted the behemoth we now know as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film, which is based on a comic book of the same name, tells the story of Thor, the Norse...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms was published in the 14th century. Although the novel's author is not known for certain, it is widely attributed to Luo Guanzhong, who many scholars believed lived during the Ming dynasty (much of Guanzhong's life...

Henry Derozio was an early 19th-century poet, teacher, and thinker who played a significant role in the Bengal Renaissance in India. Derozio was born in Kolkata in 1809 to an Indo-Portuguese father and an English mother. He was known for his...

Rarely are war films elevated into the pantheon of the best films ever made. However, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) is widely regarded as one of the best war films ever made. The film, which starts with one of the most recognizable...

Author, journalist, and sociology professor Matthew Desmond is known for his hard-hitting expose onsystemic issues plaguing the United States and its people. In his most famous book, Evicted, Desmond explored the housing and eviction crisis in...

First published on 7th November 2023, Check & Mate is a young adult novel written by Ali Hazelwood. The novel delves into themes of resilience, love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of personal passions.

The story revolves around the life of...

Published on 4th April 2023, Divine Rivals is a young adult fantasy novel written by Rebecca Ross. In this novel, Ross transports readers into a fantastical realm where ancient gods wage a tumultuous battle for supremacy over Cambria.

Within this...

Published by Tor Books in April 2023, In the Lives of Puppets is a fantasy novel written by TJ Klune. The story delves into a dystopian world devoid of humanity where robots reign supreme. Victor Lawson, nurtured by his robotic father Giovanni in...

Hell Bent, which was published in early 2023, is the second novel in author Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House series. It picks up after the events of the events of the previous novel, Ninth House. After her teacher, Mr. Darlington is punished and...

Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing was published in early 2023 by Red Tower Books, which is dedicated to primarily publishing fantasy books. Fourth Wing follows the main character and protagonist, Violet Sorrengail, a young woman who has spent most of...

Emily Henry's Happy Place was published in 2023 by publisher Berkley. With every one of her novels, Henry aims to create a book that will appeal to everyone—men and women alike. Her novels are often filled with relatable themes that speak to what...

The Housemaid is a novel by Freida McFadden published in 2022. A year later it was followed by a sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret. A third entry in the series, The Housemaid is Watching, was published in 2024. The book is a thriller with many plot...