10 Things I Can See From Here (2017) by Carrie Mac is a story about what it means to grow up in the age of the Internet. The novel follows a young woman named Maeve, who has been struggling with anxiety for much of her life. Her anxiety is so bad...

Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones (2020) is the second half of author Ngozi Ukazu's manga comic book. The first entry in the series, called #Hockey, covered the main character's Freshman and sophomore years. Sticks and Scones cover Bittle's junior...

Check, Please!: #Hockey (2018) is the first entry in author Ngozi Ukazu's Check, Please manga comic book series. Ukazu's novel follows Eric Bittle, an incoming Freshman (the novel takes place in Eric's freshman and sophomore years) at Samwell...

Sarah J. Maas' Empire of Storms (2016) is the fifth installment in her Throne of Glass series. As with previous novels, Empire of Storms tells the story of Aelin Galathynius, who lives in a complicated world filled with people who have conflicting...

Identical (2008) is a novel about abuse. It tells the story of Kaeleigh and Raeanne, two sixteen-year-old identical twins with a seemingly normal life. Their parents are both involved in the prestigious—their father is a district court judge, and...

Ellen Hopkins' Crank (2004) was based in part on the real-life struggles of the author's daughter, who has struggled with addiction to crystal meth for much of her life. Although it is a work of fiction, Hopkins estimated that "60%" of the novel...

A Court of Mist and Fury (2016) is the sequel to author Sarah J. Maas' 2015 novel A Court of Thorns and Roses. A Court of Mist and Fury's story picks up where the previous novel left off. Once again, the novel follows Feyre, a human huntress who...

A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) is the first novel in Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses series. It introduces the series' magical world and the novel's main character, Feyre, a nineteen-year-old huntress. One day, Feyre decides to kill...

Ellen Hopkins' Tricks (2009) is a novel told in verse. The novel follows five teenagers in the United States, each of whom is struggling with drug addiction or sex and the related situations they find themselves in because of it. The first story...

Eragon, author Christopher Paolini's first novel, was published in 2022, when Paolini was 19. After spending much of his early career writing novels in the world of Eragon, Paolini took a break. Murtagh (2023) is his return to that world. Murtagh...

The Future (2023) is author Naomi Alderman's novel, which envisions a world run by a few billionaires called "The Future." Those billionaires have the world on a crash course towards climate destruction because of their decision to pollute the...

How to Say Babylon (2023) is author Safiya Sinclair's memoir. The book traces Sinclair's upbringing in a strict Rastafarian (a religion whose God is Haile Selassie) to her eventual decision to leave her religion and become a person of her own. As...

Angie Kim's Happiness Falls (2023) follows a biracial Korean family living in Virginia. Initially, their life seems picture-perfect. They are a seemingly happy family with a lot going for them; however, when the beloved patriarch of the family...

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (2023) is author Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir. It follows Nyguyen's life from his birth in Vietnam to his immigration to America and ends in the present day. Early on in the book, Nguyen recounts a...

John Grisham is one of the most well-known popular fiction writers working today. Much of his work is set in the world of the law, and The Exchange (2023) is no different. The Exchange, which is a sequel to one of his most popular books called The...

Mona Awad's Rouge (2023) tells the story of Belle, a young woman who has spent much of her life obsessed with maintaining her skincare routine. However, that all changes when Noelle, her estranged mother, dies. As her mother's only living heir,...

Bryan Washington's Family Meal (2023) tells the story of Cam, a young man from Los Angeles whose life begins to fall apart after the tragic death of his beloved girlfriend, Kai. His life is further complicated by the fact that Kai's ghost...

Ayana Mathis' The Unsettled (2023) tells the story of a young woman named Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint. The novel, which is set in 1985, follows the young family as they navigate being homeless in Philadelphia—and the Glenn...

Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women (2023) tells the story of two young women whose paths cross as a result of one man's violent behavior. At the start of the novel, which is set in January 1978, people across the United States are intrigued and...

C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey (2023) references Israel, which has been historically called the "land of milk and honey." Zhang's novel is set in a dystopian world in which a deadly, thick smog has appeared, food crops are disappearing, and...

Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds (2023) tells the story of an unnamed "servant girl" who lives in an isolated colonial settlement that has been plagued by disease and famine in the middle of the 17th-century New England wilderness. For her—and for...

Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of all time. His second novel of 2023, simply titled Holly, follows the eponymous private investigator named Holly Gibney, who has appeared in several of King's novels. Holly sees Gibney as she sets...

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the publisher of Alice McDermott's Absolution (2023), describes the novel as a "dark romance." The novel has three separate but inextricably linked stories (all of which take place largely during the Vietnam War): the...

Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend (2023) tells the story of slavery from a unique perspective: that of Annis, a young woman who was sold into slavery by her white father. Primarily, the novel follows Annis as she is forced to walk alongside her...