Since Percy Jackson debuted in 2005, Rick Riordan has been stealth-educating millions of people in over 35 countries with his perfect blend of comedy, action, and Greek mythology. The Percy Jackson series has also been known for its diverse cast…
Since Percy Jackson debuted in 2005, Rick Riordan has been stealth-educating millions of people in over 35 countries with his perfect blend of comedy, action, and Greek mythology. The Percy Jackson series has also been known for its diverse cast…
There was a time when Michael Crichton ruled pop culture like few authors before. Crichton, who held an M.D. from Harvard, leveraged his intense interest in science, history, and technology into page-turning stories. He wrote screenplays for films like Westworld…
Franz Kafka was a master of depicting the political and existential troubles of the 20th century. His works deal with isolation, hidden desires, and pointless bureaucratic processes that continue to govern our lives. However, in all of their bleakness, Kafka’s…
Simon Spier and his adorkable email exchanges with the mysterious Blue took the world by storm in 2015. Followed by the movie adaptation Love, Simon and the spin-off TV series Love, Victor, the Creekwood universe continues to endear its fans…
One of the most popular end-of-the-world stories, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a Pulitzer Prize-winner about an unnamed man who travels with his son across a lifeless post-apocalyptic America. Although it’s violent and can be hard to read, The Road…
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” The spark Victor Hugo ignited in the literary world made him one of the greatest French writers. He was among the leaders…
The Harry Potter of Christian Romance, Redeeming Love tops popularity polls regularly. Translated into 30 languages, this book has sold over three million copies worldwide. It’s a guilty pleasure, Bible retelling, tender romance and historical drama all rolled into one.…
The best-selling memoir Wild captivates readers with its heart-pounding adventure and emotional arc. When death, divorce, and addiction threaten to dismantle Cheryl Strayed’s life, she decides to journey 1,100 miles across the Pacific Crest Trail. Danger lurks behind every bend,…
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…