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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...

The Book of Form and Emptiness is a contemporary novel by Japanese American filmmaker and novelist Ruth Ozeki. Published in 2021 by Viking, the novel is a coming of age story that deals with grief, physical and mental growth, and our relationships...

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...

Magic's Promise is an epic fantasy novel by American author Mercedes Lackey. It is the second novel in the Valdemar: The Last Herald Mage series and seventh in the Valdemar universe. It was published in 1990 by DAW books. A young-adult, romantic...

Magic’s Pawn is the first novel in a series called The Last Herald’s Mage. The novel centers around a Herald called Vanyel in the kingdom of Valdemar. A Herald mage is an individual possessing extraordinary psychic and magical abilities and...

Bewilderment is a contemporary novel by American novelist Richard Powers. Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2021, it is Powers' thirteenth book and a follow up to his 2018 novel The Overstory that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

The Souvenir Museum is a collection of short stories by the award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken. The stories are of a contemporary genre, and each story deals with some real-life struggle in a witty way. All the characters have come to a...

Intimacies is a novel by American author Katie Kitamura. It was published in August 2021 after Jonathan Cape acquired the rights in February of the same year. It is her fourth novel after A Separation (2017) and both share a similar tone in terms...

Abundance is a contemporary novel by American author Jakob Guanzon. Published in 2021 by Graywolf Press, it is Guanzon's debut novel. It explores social menaces in the United States like poverty, wealth inequality, justice system, drug trade,...

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is a novel by American poet Honoree Fanone Jeffers, on her first outing as an author. It was published in 2021 by Harper Collins. Set in the American deep South, the novel explores African-American history before...

Written by an award-winning author, Zorrie follows a young American girl called Zorrie Underwood, who has suffered a great deal in her life. She lost both her parents to an illness, and after an aunt, who was like a mother to her, passed, Zorrie...

Matrix is a novel set in the 12th century England and follows a young french royal, cast away Marie, who was banished to become a prioress of an abbey with nuns in rural England. The reasoning behind this is because Marie is deemed unfit for...