Elizabeth Gilbert eats her way through Italy, meditates in India, and seeks balance in Indonesia. Her three-pronged trip is spurred by a divorce, a bitter rebound relationship, and a nasty bout of depression. With a cheeky narrative voice and the…
Elizabeth Gilbert eats her way through Italy, meditates in India, and seeks balance in Indonesia. Her three-pronged trip is spurred by a divorce, a bitter rebound relationship, and a nasty bout of depression. With a cheeky narrative voice and the…
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most celebrated and debated living American writers. Over the course of seven decades, Oates has published nearly 60 novels, a slew of short stories, plays, essays, and poetry. What’s most remarkable about her…
With 16 main series books and a television series that spanned 7 seasons, Pretty Little Liars has made a significant impact on the teen mystery genre, despite some of its controversial subplots. The series follows a tight knit friend group…
Who’s excited for more Outlander? That’s right, after a seven year wait, the ninth installment in the series: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is hitting the shelves in November 2021! I absolutely will be telling the bees…
Jodi Picoult is the author of 26 widely successful novels. She aims to dissect ethical dilemmas, touching on a wide variety of subjects, including but not limited to school shootings, suicide, bullying, emancipation, racism, and abortion. Her novels are written…
S. E. Hinton’s debut novel The Outsiders is a timeless story about teenage rebellion. Told from the perspective of the young protagonist Ponyboy Curtis, the novel depicts the conflict between two gangs that differ in social status—the working-class Greasers and…
Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel The Help is a work of fiction based on the experiences of black maids in Mississippi in 1960s America. What makes this novel striking are the lives of the maids, Aibileen and Minny, so starkly juxtaposed…
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. He lived in Paris for a few years as an adult before permanently relocating with his family in California. Hosseini went to medical school, but while he became a full-fledged doctor,…
Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated British authors of our time; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 and his books are consistently nominated for noteworthy prizes. He focuses largely on the past and, though many…