Stuart Little is a children's book written and published by E.B. White in 1945. It was this first book of White’s as well as his second, Charlotte’s Web, that secured his reputation as one of the most beloved American writers of children’s...

Sarah J. Maas' Empire of Storms (2016) is the fifth installment in her Throne of Glass series. As with previous novels, Empire of Storms tells the story of Aelin Galathynius, who lives in a complicated world filled with people who have conflicting...

Identical (2008) is a novel about abuse. It tells the story of Kaeleigh and Raeanne, two sixteen-year-old identical twins with a seemingly normal life. Their parents are both involved in the prestigious—their father is a district court judge, and...

Ellen Hopkins' Crank (2004) was based in part on the real-life struggles of the author's daughter, who has struggled with addiction to crystal meth for much of her life. Although it is a work of fiction, Hopkins estimated that "60%" of the novel...

A Court of Mist and Fury (2016) is the sequel to author Sarah J. Maas' 2015 novel A Court of Thorns and Roses. A Court of Mist and Fury's story picks up where the previous novel left off. Once again, the novel follows Feyre, a human huntress who...

A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) is the first novel in Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses series. It introduces the series' magical world and the novel's main character, Feyre, a nineteen-year-old huntress. One day, Feyre decides to kill...

Ellen Hopkins' Tricks (2009) is a novel told in verse. The novel follows five teenagers in the United States, each of whom is struggling with drug addiction or sex and the related situations they find themselves in because of it. The first story...

Ellen Bass is an American poet, writer, and teacher whose work is concerned with the complexity of life: relationships, conflict, the body, sexuality, and food. Bass's poem "The Thing Is," published in her 2002 collection Mules of Love, instructs...

Blood Brothers is a musical written by English dramatist and composer Willy Russell. It depicts the lives of twin brothers, Mickey and Eddie, who were separated at birth. One ends up being raised by a rich family and becoming a local politician...

Eragon, author Christopher Paolini's first novel, was published in 2022, when Paolini was 19. After spending much of his early career writing novels in the world of Eragon, Paolini took a break. Murtagh (2023) is his return to that world. Murtagh...

The Future (2023) is author Naomi Alderman's novel, which envisions a world run by a few billionaires called "The Future." Those billionaires have the world on a crash course towards climate destruction because of their decision to pollute the...

How to Say Babylon (2023) is author Safiya Sinclair's memoir. The book traces Sinclair's upbringing in a strict Rastafarian (a religion whose God is Haile Selassie) to her eventual decision to leave her religion and become a person of her own. As...

Angie Kim's Happiness Falls (2023) follows a biracial Korean family living in Virginia. Initially, their life seems picture-perfect. They are a seemingly happy family with a lot going for them; however, when the beloved patriarch of the family...

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (2023) is author Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir. It follows Nyguyen's life from his birth in Vietnam to his immigration to America and ends in the present day. Early on in the book, Nguyen recounts a...

John Grisham is one of the most well-known popular fiction writers working today. Much of his work is set in the world of the law, and The Exchange (2023) is no different. The Exchange, which is a sequel to one of his most popular books called The...

The Lincoln Highway (2021) is a road-trip narrative set in 1954 America, spanning a timeline of ten days and 1,500 miles across the country. Packed into ten short days is the story of four boys’ journeys to find their respective futures, as Emmett...

Mona Awad's Rouge (2023) tells the story of Belle, a young woman who has spent much of her life obsessed with maintaining her skincare routine. However, that all changes when Noelle, her estranged mother, dies. As her mother's only living heir,...

Bryan Washington's Family Meal (2023) tells the story of Cam, a young man from Los Angeles whose life begins to fall apart after the tragic death of his beloved girlfriend, Kai. His life is further complicated by the fact that Kai's ghost...

Ayana Mathis' The Unsettled (2023) tells the story of a young woman named Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint. The novel, which is set in 1985, follows the young family as they navigate being homeless in Philadelphia—and the Glenn...

Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women (2023) tells the story of two young women whose paths cross as a result of one man's violent behavior. At the start of the novel, which is set in January 1978, people across the United States are intrigued and...

C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey (2023) references Israel, which has been historically called the "land of milk and honey." Zhang's novel is set in a dystopian world in which a deadly, thick smog has appeared, food crops are disappearing, and...

Rupi Kaur is a Punjabi-Canadian writer and performer whose work centers on themes of womanhood, abuse, love, and loss. She self-published her first collection, milk and honey, in 2014, and just two years later it became a New York Times-...

The Faerie Queene was written over the course of about a decade by Edmund Spenser. He published the first three books in 1590, then the next four books (plus revisions to the first three) in 1596. It was originally intended to be twelve books...