Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle is a historical fiction novel that explores the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. Initially pleased to find herself a wealthy widow after her second husband's death, Katherine soon...

Marcel Rouff's The Passionate Epicure (1920) is a novel, as its title and cover suggest, about food. The novel follows Dodin-Bouffant, a well-known bachelor with a tremendous passion for fine dining and love—namely, for women. Dodin-Bouffant is...

The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis' novel, which was published in 2014 by Vintage Books, is a novel about the Holocaust. Specifically, it is a novel about a love affair between Angelus Thomsen and the wife of the camp's commandant in the notorious...

Published in 2013, Dust is a science fiction novel written by American author Hugh Howey. It is the third and final book in the "Silo" series following Wool and Shift. The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of humanity...

First published in 2013, Shift is a dystopian fiction novel written by Hugh Howey. It is both the prequel and sequel to the first book in the science fiction trilogy known as "Silo." This novel followed the success of Wool, which initially gained...

Sasha LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (2022) does what few other books have done in history: tell the story of a Native American woman. LaPointe begins her memoir by discussing her long, intense longing for...

Brigid Delaney is a leading Australian travel journalist working for the Guardian as a senior columnist and speechwriter for federal Ministers. Besides working for the Guardian, Delaney has authored two famous books in her native Australian native...

Richard Russo's Straight Man (1997) is a novel about William Henry Devereaux, Jr.'s (also called "Hank") mid-life crisis. Russo's novel is set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania and follows the aforementioned Hank, the misanthropic chairman of...

Born in 1969, Victor Gischler is an American author of crime fiction. Victor Gischler is a Ph.D. graduate in English from Southern Mississippi University, and most of his fiction work is translated into Japanese, Italian, French, and Spanish...

Ben Macintyre is a British author born in 1963 in Oxford, United Kingdom. Throughout Macintyre’s career, he has worked as a The Times newspaper columnist and author. Macintyre's columns vary from contemporary affairs to chronological debates....

Egil Krogh's Integrity (2007) is a book about the Watergate scandal, which rocked the United States and forced President Richard Nixon to resign. In his book, Krogh examines his role as the lawyer in charge of the group called "the plumbers," who...

Greg Laurie and Ellen Vaughn's Jesus Revolution (2018) is a history of the so-called "Jesus Movement," which swept across the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. That movement, which Laurie and Vaughn say breathed new life into Christianity,...

Raymond Chandler, the creator of the Phillip Marlowe character, died in 1959. However, his estate enlisted the help of authors worldwide to ensure that more stories involving Marlowe continued to be told. Benjamin Melville (operating under the...

Edo Van Belkom's Wolf Pack (published in 2004) is the first novel in Belkom's Wolf Pack series. It tells the story of Ranger Garrett Brock, who rescues a litter of wolf pups from incoming fire and brings them home. However, soon after Brock brings...

Miriam Towes' Women Talking (2018) is a novel about a series of rapes in a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia. A group of men sprayed a veterinary sedative into women's homes around the colony, rendering them unconscious. After that, they broke...

The Lying Life of Adults is a novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante, which was first published in Italian in 2019 and later translated into English in a novel published in 2020. The book tells the story of Giovanna, a young girl from...

Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is set in the 1960s. It follows Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who is struggling to integrate into a world that is not equal and dominated by men. Zott generally doesn't like dealing with other chemists, but...

Martin J. Sherwin spent much of his long and illustrious career researching the book that became American Prometheus, originally published in 2005. For twenty years, Sherwin studied and outlined American Prometheus, a biography about divisive...

Sofie Cramer's Text for You (2022) is a novel about Clara, a young woman eagerly awaiting her marriage to her fiance. However, after a night of intense arguing, Clara's fiance gets into a nasty accident and dies. Clara feels guilty and blames...

Laline Paull's Pod (2023) is set in the depths of the ocean, which has traditionally been far from the reach of humans. However, humans have begun to encroach on this previously unexplored place, destroying it. Pod is told from the perspective of...

Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait (2022) is a novel about Lucrezia di Cosimo de'Medici, a young woman who lives in Florence, Italy, in 1550. One day, at 15, Lucrezia's parents inform her that she will marry Alfonso II d'Este, a much older...