The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Element is the first book published Sam Kean, a science writer of articles published in periodicals ranging from Psychology...

Dibs in Search of Self is a book about the author’s research and treatment of a boy called Dibs. The author of the book was a renowned psychologist who influenced the use of play therapy. The book is constructed out of the sessions and...

Copper Sun is a young adult fictional book written by Sharon Draper and was first published on 2006 by Atheneum Books. The book focuses on transatlantic slavery, and was inspired from Draper’s visit to Ghana where she first-hand witnessed the...

The City and the City is a book written by China Miéville and was first published on 15 May 2009 by Macmillan. The genre falls into both weird fiction and police crime drama, and was written as homage to the author’s mother.

The plot revolves...

Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) is a fictional young adult book written by Tomi Adeyemi and was first published in 2020 by Macmillan. The book is the second in the Legacy of Orisha series, following on from Children of Blood...

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England is a historical nonfiction book written by William Cronon and was first published by Hill and Wang in 1983. Cronon is a award-winning author, having won the Bancroft Prize in...

"The Black Man's Burden” is a poem written by H. T. Johnson in 1899. The poem was a retaliation to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden” (1897).

In the poem, Johnson criticizes the subjugation of black people at the hands of their white...

Binti is a horror science fiction story written by Nnedi Okorafor and was first published in 2015 by Tor.com. It is the first in a series with the titular name.

The book follows the main protagonist, Binti, as she leaves Earth to travel...

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions is a novel entailing elements of magical realism written by Daniel Wallace and first published in 1998. The book was Wallace’s sixth submission after his first five novels were rejected by publishing houses....

“The Best We Could Do” is an illustrated book that is also a memoir about the author’s life, her parents, and their migration to America to escape the Vietnam War. The memoir was inspired by the conversations the author had with her parents for...

Belfast Confetti is a collection of poetry by Ciaran Gerard Carson. It was initially published in January 1989 and later in December 1989 by Wake Forest University Press.

The collection is made up of long poems, prose, haiku, and lyrics. Born,...

“Before We Were Yours” is a novel inspired by true events, about a Memphis adoption organization that stole and sold children to wealthy families. The novel begins with the story about five siblings being taken away one night from their idyllic...

Written by the Dominican-American novelist Julia Alvarez, Before We Were Free is a historical fiction set in the 1960s Dominican Republic. The fictional events in the novel take place on the backdrop of the political unrest during the Trujillo...

Becoming Nicole is a non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt published in October 2015. The book is about the transgender girl Nicole Maines and tackles the subject of gender identity and the LGBTQ community.

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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction is a memoir written by David Sheff about his family’s journey through their son’s methamphetamine addiction, published in 2008. It was based on The New York Times Magazine article “My...

“Beartown” is a first novel in the series written by a famous Swedish author, Fredrik Backman. Beartown is a translation of the Swedish name of the small town, Bjornstad, where the novel is set. The novel centers around the town’s tradition in ice...

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time is a non-fiction book that explores the theory of evolution written by Jonathan Weiner. It was published in 1994 and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction the following year.

The...

Another Brooklyn is a novel by Jacqueline Woodson published in 2016. Although Woodson is primarily known as the author of several successful books for younger readers, Another Brooklyn is directed toward an adult readership with its themes that...

American Street is a young adult fictional novel by Ibi Zoboi. Published in 2017 by Balzer & Bray, the novel tells a powerful and evoking story about an immigrant family finding their way in the USA after leaving Haiti, only to stumble upon...

“1914” is a war poem, written by famed poet and author, Wilfred Owen, who also served as a soldier during World War I. The poem was published posthumously as Owen died in action in 1918.

This poem uses the seasons to describe the reckoning effects...

“The Forever War” is a science fiction novel set in the futuristic 20th century when humans have advanced the space travel technology, and the chosen ones get to explore the space, but also prepare for military conflicts with alien life.

The novel...