In both style and challenge, Cormac McCarthy is unique among modern American writers. Utilizing a writing style that eschews unnecessary punctuation to a degree that should render his prose unreadable, McCarthy compensates by employing terse, direct sentence structures filled with…
What links book-burning, ultraviolence, and Québécois radicals? Famously banned, and notoriously cynical, Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel is part of an anti-tradition of books that ask us to be a free thinker in a world full of drones. Weaving science fiction…
Aldous Huxley is most famous for his novel Brave New World, but the English writer produced a substantial body of work throughout his prolific career. Apart from novels, Huxley wrote short stories, poetry, non-fiction work, and even numerous screenplays. He had…
Ian McEwan published his first novel The Cement Garden in 1978. It received positive reviews, particularly for a debut novel, and he has been publishing ever since; his latest released in 2019. His work is often adapted for television and…
A hypnotising combination of romance, folklore, and strong female characters, Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses series left readers staring into the stars long after they finished the final page. If you’re one such reader now searching…
Three shots fired in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 changed the world. President Kennedy was assassinated and there was no going back. Or was there? Stephen King’s gripping story about a teacher who goes back in time to stop…
“Big brother is watching you…” the utterance has come to encapsulate the terrifying yoke of state power in the 20th century. Orwell’s vision of a horrifying future was written in 1948 amidst the rising forces of fascism and communism, but…
Charles Bukowski is both fringe and mainstream, underground and establishment. Bukowski’s vulgar, autobiographical writing—fueled by alcohol—can be off-putting, but his work occupies a unique place in the literary firmament. Considered one of the leading writers of the Dirty Realism movement,…
Six of Crows is a clever, gritty novel set in Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse. A spinoff of Bardugo’s debut YA trilogy Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows gives us a wily street gang, clever cons, and a seemingly impossible heist. Kaz…
John Green is one of the best known young adult novelists. His novels consistently become cult classics and are quoted on social media sites such as Tumblr, Instagram, and Pinterest. He was born in Indiana in 1977, then later attended…