Regarding the ever-conflicting and discussed topic of gender identity and gender roles, the author of “Female Masculinity” dives into the topic of the women who aren’t following the normative, socially accepted path of womanhood; women who...

Foundation is the science fiction trilogy written by Isaac Asimov. The book was first published in 1951 by Gnome Press. The story is based on the fall of the Roman Empire. Asimov uses Galactic Empire to depict the collapse of the Roman Empire....

Originally published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock, Over to You is a collection of ten short stories written by British novelist Roald Dahl. Dahl joined the Royal Air Force after the Second World War broke out and stayed in active service...

Cloud Cuckoo Land is the highly anticipated follow-up to author Michael Doerr’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Even before the public could get their hands on it when it was finally released in late September of...

Beautiful World, Where Are You is Irish author Sally Rooney’s third novel, published in September 2021. Not coincidentally, it is the story of an Irish novelist who bears a more than slight resemblance to her creator. The story covers the...

Black Boy Joy is a collection of short fiction celebrating the joys of being a young, black, and male in America. The book was published in 2021 under the editorial guidance of the creator of the Tristan Strong series of children’s books, Kwame...

Published on 15 August 2017 by Riverhead Books, Home Fire is the seventh book written by the British writer Kamila Shamsie. The book has been shortlisted for multiple awards since its publication and in 2018 won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In...

Harbor Me is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Jacqueline Woodson and published in 2018. Woodson had earned the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for her previous book Brown Girl Dreaming. In this book, she writes...

Anxious People is a novel by Swedish author and columnist Fredrik Backman. Originally titled Folk med ångest and written in Swedish, it was translated by Neil Smith for the English world. It was originally published in 2019 and the translated...

My Grandmother's Hands is a book written by the American author and therapist Resmaa Menakem and was published in 2017. As a therapist, Menakem specializes in body-centered psychology, violence prevention, and trauma, incorporating years of...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is an epic fantasy novel by American author V. E. Schwab. Published by Tor Fantasy Books in 2020, it explores a woman who makes a bargain with a powerful force to make her immortal. The force instead puts a curse...

Published in 2010, more than twenty years after the series originated with The Eye of the World, Towers of Midnight is the thirteenth and next-to-last entry in The Wheel of Time cycle of fantasy novels. One of the problems with planning such a...

The Gathering Storm is the book twelve in Robert Jordan’s fantasy fiction series collective known as the Wheel of Time. At the time of Jordan’s death on September 16, 2007, the book was not yet completed. Jordan’s editor, Tom Doherty and his widow...

Knife of Dreams is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the eleventh novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books...

Crossroads of Twilight is the tenth book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Published in January 2003, it was preceded by Winter’s Heart and followed by Knife of Dreams. Despite being published afterward, the chronological timelines of...

Winter's Heart is an epic fantasy novel by American author James Oliver Rigney, famously known as Robert Jordan. It is the ninth novel in the popular Wheel of Time series, which consists of 14 titles. Published by Tor Fantasy and Orbit books in...

Belly Up is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Stuart Gibbs and was published in 2010. The novel is the first book from the FunJungle series involving an exotic animal zoo and a 12-year-old protagonist named Theodore (Teddy)...

“The Unteachables” is a middle grade novel set in a school, following a class of students that are deemed unteachable delinquents and slow in learning. The author of the book started writing very young, and his books are mostly dedicated to young...

Dreamland Burning is a historical fictional novel written by author Jennifer Latham and was first published by Little, Brown Young Readers US on 23 February 2017. Latham is the author of Scarlett Undercover and resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an area...

The Princess Diaries is a fictional young adult novel written by American author Meg Cabot and was first published by HarperTrophy in 2000. The book is the first in its series, and was followed by The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the...