Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the most popular dystopian novels of the twentieth century. This is the story of Offred, living under a totalitarian regime in the Republic of Gilead, formerly part of the United States. Dire…
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the most popular dystopian novels of the twentieth century. This is the story of Offred, living under a totalitarian regime in the Republic of Gilead, formerly part of the United States. Dire…
Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir Educated captures her escape from her fundamentalist Mormon upbringing in rural Idaho. From her fanatic father, who refuses to send his children to school and believes the end of the world is constantly upon them, to…
Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel Normal People has taken the literary world by storm in its touching portrayal of young love. The book traces two protagonists, Connell and Marianne, from growing up together in their rural Irish town to attending university…
Delia Owens’ fiction debut Where the Crawdads Sing is a moving and beautifully written portrait of the life of Kya, a young girl growing up alone in the marshes of North Carolina after being abandoned by her family. This novel…
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life was sold to me as “the most depressing book you’ll ever read.” The New Yorker labels it ‘dark and disturbing,’ and The Guardian called it both ‘traumatic’ and a tale of ‘relentless suffering.’ If you…
Girl, Woman, Other, the joint recipient of the 2019 Man Booker Prize, is a gripping and lyrical portrait of the lives of twelve characters, mainly Black women. By the end of the book, Bernadine Evaristo brings all twelve together to…