In her 2023 novel Weyward, Emilia Hart took a significant risk. Rather than telling a simple story in a single setting, she decided to follow three separate but interconnected story threads. The first story is set in the modern day, in 2019, and...

Eastbound is the 2023 English-language translation of Maylis de Kerangal’s novel Tangente vers l'est which was originally published in 2012. The direct translation of the original title would be “Tangent Toward the East” but the revised title...

North Woods is a novel by Daniel Mason published by Random House in 2023. As the title indicates, the central element of the narrative is not the character but the setting. The book focuses on the North Woods location over an extended period...

Freewater is a children's novel by Amina Luqman-Dawson which was published by Little Brown and Company in 2022. It is targeted toward middle-grade readers and tells a story about a little-known piece of slave-owning history in America. The focus...

Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista was published in October 2021 to great fanfare. A work of science fiction, The Last Cuentista follows a twelve-year-old girl named Petra Peña, who lives on an Earth beset by terrible, tragic conditions...

The Last Mapmaker is an adventure story for middle-grade readers written by Christina Soontornvat and published in 2023. Although set entirely within a fantasy world created in the mind of the author, the story has strong thematic and historical...

Ian Reid's Foe was published in 2018 by Gallery/Scout Press. Foe is set in the near future and follows Junior and Henrietta, who live together on a cramped, but isolated and remote farm. One day, a strange man named Terrance comes to the couple's...

Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake (2022) tells the story of two young men named Byron and Benny, who are grieving the unexpected death of their mother. When the two travel to their mother to sort out her funeral and estate, they are confronted with...

Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party was published in the United Kingdom in 1969. As with many of Christie's novels, Hallowe'en Party features Hercule Poirot, who is tasked with investigating the murder of two young women at a Halloween party. At...

A Haunting in Venice (2023) was originally published as Hallowe'en Party in 1969 by acclaimed British mystery author Agatha Christie. The name change was made for marketing purposes: a film called A Haunting in Venice was released in 2023, and...

The Changeling is a contemporary dark fantasy novel written by American author Victor LaValle. It was published on 13th June 2017 by Spiegel & Grau. The story combines elements of folklore, horror, and contemporary themes to create a...

Published in June 2021, The Other Black Girl is the debut novel by American writer Zakiya Dalila Harris. The novel is a contemporary fiction that delves into themes of race, workplace dynamics, and identity.

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Katherine Marsh is a 48-year-old author of children's books, which include Nowhere Boy (2018), The Door by the Staircase (2016), Jeep, Who Defied the Staircase (2012), The Twilight Prisoner (2009), The Night Tourist (2007), and The Lost Year...

Ken Cadow was born in Norwich and works as a school principal in Vermont. Cadow is a first-time novelist, and his debut novel is Gather, a young adult novel. Gather is about Ian, a young adult living in his rural home in Vermont. Ian is trying to...

Hanna Pylväinen is an educator and novelist based in the United States of America. Some of Pylväinen's works include We Sinners (2012), Unbelieving: A Memoir (2007), and Easter Among Strangers (2012). Pylväinen’s latest novel is

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Paul Harding is a 56-year-old American musician and author. Harding is best known for his first appearance novel, Tinkers (2009), which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Price and Pulitzer Prize Award (2010) in literary fiction. Paul Harding’s latest...

Aaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Maryland. After graduating from the University of London with a degree in African studies, Bilal published several fiction and non-fiction stories. Most of Bilal's stories connect Afro-Diasporic people and...

Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American exploratory fiction author. Adjei-Brenyah came to the literature limelight in 2018 when he wrote a short story collection, Friday Black. Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) is Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel. The National...

John Lee Clark is an American 45 years of age, a crusader, deafblind bard, and writer from Minnesota, United States of America. Clark is a unique poet and writer because he was born into a deaf family that used sign language to communicate. In his...

When it was published, Adam Rapp's 33 Snowfish (2003) was lauded by experts and critics as an important, challenging novel that could impact the worldview of its teenage readers because of its complex and mature themes. In the 2020s, those mature...

Someday (2018) is the third and final novel in author David Levithan's Every Day series. Once again, Levithan's novel delves into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and Reverend Poole. For much of his life, A has thought he was one of a kind. At...

Another Day (2015) is the second novel in David Levithan's Every Day trilogy, which began with the novel Every Day in 2012. Levithan's novel is told from the perspective of a character named A, who has the ability to inhabit different people's...

David Levithan, the author of the critically acclaimed and incredibly successful Every Day series, has centered much of his literary career on love—particularly 2SLGBTQIA+ love. In each of his novels, love is a prominent theme. That is especially...

On 11/22/63 (2011), Stephen King ventured into a new genre: speculative science fiction. Long known as the master of horror, 11/22/63 tells the story of a high school English teacher named Jake Epping who travels back in time to stop the...