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"The Fun They Had" was written by Isaac Asimov and first published in a children's magazine in 1951. The text is Asimov's most anthologized story, and was reprinted several times in the following decades.

Whereas is a poem by Layli Long Soldier that responds to the congressional apology to native tribes in the US. The congressional apology was signed in obscurity by then President of the US Barack Obama. Native people have long suffered systematic...

Crooked Hallelujah is a contemporary novel by Native-American author Kelli Jo Ford. It was published in 2020 by Grove Press. The novel explores the lives of Native-American women throughout multiple generations, as they strive to make life better...

The Road Back to Sweatgrass is a coming-of-age novel by Native-American author Linda LeGarde Grover. It was published in 2014 by the University of Minnesota Press. In the 1970s, Margie, Dale, and Theresa live in the Ojibwe reservation which, like...

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky is a historical fiction novel written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Margaret Verble. It was published on 12th October 2021 by Mariner Books. The narrative blends a bit of magical realism with real history...

Piranesi is a high fantasy novel by British author Susanna Clarke. Published in 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the novel is about a magical world known as The House full of secrets, manipulation, and adventure. Piranesi is a man who lives in this...

Blacktop Wasteland is a novel written by S.A. Cosby involving a crime. The main character of the book is Beauregard Montage who struggles to provide for his family. Beauregard is a former criminal and has assured his friends and family that he won...

Winter Counts is a crime thriller novel written by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and was published in 2020 by Ecco—an imprint of HarperCollins. It is Weiden’s debut novel and managed to make it on the year’s top lists including the New York Times...

The Only Good Indians is a fantasy horror novel by horror fiction writer Stephen Graham Jones. It tells the story of a group of Native Americans who are stalked by a female elk whom the men had killed in an illicit hunt when they were boys. The...

The Year They Burned The Books is a novel for young adults by Nancy Garden, a magazine editor-turned young adult novelist who seems to have much in common with Jamie, her protagonist.

The novel tells the story of Jamie, the editor of the high...

Reluctantly Alice is a young-adult novel by American author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It is the third book in the Alice series, consisting of twenty-five books. Published in 1991 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, the novel continues exploring...

The Underground Girls of Kabul is a book by Jenny Nordberg that explores the lives of young girls in Afghanistan that are compelled by culture and traditions to dress like boys. Nordberg is a Swedish investigative journalist who unravels the...

We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates writes about white supremacy and black identity in eight years during the presidency of Barack Obama. The author claims that his career was elevated after Obama...

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a book detailing how the caste system in the USA controls people throughout history. The author argues that America suffers from inequality and injustices since enslavement started in...

“The Moon and the Yew Tree” is a poem Sylvia Plath wrote in October 1961, shortly before her death, amid poverty and a deteriorating marriage. It was published in her second and posthumous book of poetry, Ariel, in 1965. The poem is in four...

"anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a poem written by E. E. Cummings, whose name is often styled as e. e. cummings. The poem was first published in 1940 and tells the story of a small town, where the residents live a reliable but monotonous...

"Shiloh" is a poem by Herman Melville that depicts the aftermath of a notably bloody Civil War battle. The poem was published in 1886 as part of Melville's poetry collection about the conflict, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. Alongside the...

Louisa May Alcott is yet another of those hardy and hearty New England writers of the 19th century who never married or had children. When Louisa’s sister May passed away at an early age, however, Louisa took in her niece Lulu (named after her...

One day in 1897 a man working as a coroner’s assistant in New York City was approached by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia, and found himself coming face-to-face with one of the most difficult questions the father of such a young child might...

“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” is the popularly known title of a poem actually published in 1823 as “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” before transforming into its longtime official title “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” That publication was...

Published in 2018, The Poet X is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Dominican-American poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo. The novel—specifically the protagonist Xiomara, who goes by "X"—draws on Acevedo's own experience growing up in New...

Apples Never Fall is the 2021 follow-up to Liane Moriarty’s very successful 2018 novel Nine Perfect Strangers. Like that bestseller, it has four-hundred-plus pages of domestic Sturm und Drang focusing on interrelationships among family members...

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice is a memoir by American author and activist Terry Tempest Williams. Published in 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book explores the strange journals her mother left...

The Sound of My Voice is a novel by Scottish poet, lyricist, and award-winning novelist Ron Butlin. It was Published in 1987 by Canongate Publishing Limited.

The novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland and follows Morris Magellan’s life in the suburbs....