Matrix is a novel set in the 12th century England and follows a young french royal, cast away Marie, who was banished to become a prioress of an abbey with nuns in rural England. The reasoning behind this is because Marie is deemed unfit for...

“Still I Rise” is one of Maya Angelou’s most celebrated poems. Originally published in 1978 in Angelou’s third volume of verse, And Still I Rise, it shares its title with a play she wrote in 1976 and was written during a highly prolific time in...

Regarding the ever-conflicting and discussed topic of gender identity and gender roles, the author of “Female Masculinity” dives into the topic of the women who aren’t following the normative, socially accepted path of womanhood; women who...

The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood's first novel, was published in 1969 and established Margaret Atwood as one of the most important writers of the late 20th century. Atwood would go on to become famous for her use of socially conscious themes and...

Foundation is the science fiction trilogy written by Isaac Asimov. The book was first published in 1951 by Gnome Press. The story is based on the fall of the Roman Empire. Asimov uses Galactic Empire to depict the collapse of the Roman Empire....

Originally published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock, Over to You is a collection of ten short stories written by British novelist Roald Dahl. Dahl joined the Royal Air Force after the Second World War broke out and stayed in active service...

Charlie's Country (2013) is a drama film about a Yolngu man who lives in an Indigenous "outstation" community on Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Although Charlie is supposedly free to live a traditional way of life among fellow...

Cloud Cuckoo Land is the highly anticipated follow-up to author Michael Doerr’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Even before the public could get their hands on it when it was finally released in late September of...

Beautiful World, Where Are You is Irish author Sally Rooney’s third novel, published in September 2021. Not coincidentally, it is the story of an Irish novelist who bears a more than slight resemblance to her creator. The story covers the...

Black Boy Joy is a collection of short fiction celebrating the joys of being a young, black, and male in America. The book was published in 2021 under the editorial guidance of the creator of the Tristan Strong series of children’s books, Kwame...

Published on 15 August 2017 by Riverhead Books, Home Fire is the seventh book written by the British writer Kamila Shamsie. The book has been shortlisted for multiple awards since its publication and in 2018 won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In...

Harbor Me is a middle-grade novel written by the American author Jacqueline Woodson and published in 2018. Woodson had earned the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for her previous book Brown Girl Dreaming. In this book, she writes...

Anxious People is a novel by Swedish author and columnist Fredrik Backman. Originally titled Folk med ångest and written in Swedish, it was translated by Neil Smith for the English world. It was originally published in 2019 and the translated...

My Grandmother's Hands is a book written by the American author and therapist Resmaa Menakem and was published in 2017. As a therapist, Menakem specializes in body-centered psychology, violence prevention, and trauma, incorporating years of...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is an epic fantasy novel by American author V. E. Schwab. Published by Tor Fantasy Books in 2020, it explores a woman who makes a bargain with a powerful force to make her immortal. The force instead puts a curse...

Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows (2015) is a fantasy novel set in the Kerch city of Ketterdam, inspired by Dutch Republic–era Amsterdam. The novel is the first in a duology and is part of the Grishaverse, with ties to The King of Scars Duology and the...

The White Tiger, published in 2008, is Aravind Adiga's debut novel. In its first year of publication, it was named a New York Times Bestseller, and was awarded the Man Booker Prize, making Adiga the fourth Indian-born author and, at age 33, the...