Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party was published in the United Kingdom in 1969. As with many of Christie's novels, Hallowe'en Party features Hercule Poirot, who is tasked with investigating the murder of two young women at a Halloween party. At...

A Haunting in Venice (2023) was originally published as Hallowe'en Party in 1969 by acclaimed British mystery author Agatha Christie. The name change was made for marketing purposes: a film called A Haunting in Venice was released in 2023, and...

The Changeling is a contemporary dark fantasy novel written by American author Victor LaValle. It was published on 13th June 2017 by Spiegel & Grau. The story combines elements of folklore, horror, and contemporary themes to create a...

Published in June 2021, The Other Black Girl is the debut novel by American writer Zakiya Dalila Harris. The novel is a contemporary fiction that delves into themes of race, workplace dynamics, and identity.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, the book tells the story of a group of young women attending Appleyard College, an Australian boarding school in Macedon, Victoria. It details their mysterious...

Published in two parts in 1901 and 1902, Jerusalem is a multigenerational saga that tells the story of families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a Swedish church group who emigrated to a utopian Christian commune in Jerusalem, Israel. Inspired by a real...

Katherine Marsh is a 48-year-old author of children's books, which include Nowhere Boy (2018), The Door by the Staircase (2016), Jeep, Who Defied the Staircase (2012), The Twilight Prisoner (2009), The Night Tourist (2007), and The Lost Year...

Ken Cadow was born in Norwich and works as a school principal in Vermont. Cadow is a first-time novelist, and his debut novel is Gather, a young adult novel. Gather is about Ian, a young adult living in his rural home in Vermont. Ian is trying to...

Hanna Pylväinen is an educator and novelist based in the United States of America. Some of Pylväinen's works include We Sinners (2012), Unbelieving: A Memoir (2007), and Easter Among Strangers (2012). Pylväinen’s latest novel is

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Paul Harding is a 56-year-old American musician and author. Harding is best known for his first appearance novel, Tinkers (2009), which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Price and Pulitzer Prize Award (2010) in literary fiction. Paul Harding’s latest...

Aaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Maryland. After graduating from the University of London with a degree in African studies, Bilal published several fiction and non-fiction stories. Most of Bilal's stories connect Afro-Diasporic people and...

Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American exploratory fiction author. Adjei-Brenyah came to the literature limelight in 2018 when he wrote a short story collection, Friday Black. Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) is Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel. The National...

John Lee Clark is an American 45 years of age, a crusader, deafblind bard, and writer from Minnesota, United States of America. Clark is a unique poet and writer because he was born into a deaf family that used sign language to communicate. In his...

“Daybreak in Alabama” is a poem by Langston Hughes about a composer who fantasizes about creating music that will embody the beauty of life in Alabama and thereby lead to healing and a better world. The poem became popular during the sixties due...

Ellen Bass is an American poet, writer, and teacher whose work centers on love, sex, food, relationships, conflict, and healing. In her poem "Basket of Figs," published in the 2002 collection Mules of Love, the speaker invites her lover to lay...

When it was published, Adam Rapp's 33 Snowfish (2003) was lauded by experts and critics as an important, challenging novel that could impact the worldview of its teenage readers because of its complex and mature themes. In the 2020s, those mature...

Someday (2018) is the third and final novel in author David Levithan's Every Day series. Once again, Levithan's novel delves into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and Reverend Poole. For much of his life, A has thought he was one of a kind. At...

Another Day (2015) is the second novel in David Levithan's Every Day trilogy, which began with the novel Every Day in 2012. Levithan's novel is told from the perspective of a character named A, who has the ability to inhabit different people's...

David Levithan, the author of the critically acclaimed and incredibly successful Every Day series, has centered much of his literary career on love—particularly 2SLGBTQIA+ love. In each of his novels, love is a prominent theme. That is especially...

On 11/22/63 (2011), Stephen King ventured into a new genre: speculative science fiction. Long known as the master of horror, 11/22/63 tells the story of a high school English teacher named Jake Epping who travels back in time to stop the...

10 Things I Can See From Here (2017) by Carrie Mac is a story about what it means to grow up in the age of the Internet. The novel follows a young woman named Maeve, who has been struggling with anxiety for much of her life. Her anxiety is so bad...

Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones (2020) is the second half of author Ngozi Ukazu's manga comic book. The first entry in the series, called #Hockey, covered the main character's Freshman and sophomore years. Sticks and Scones cover Bittle's junior...

Check, Please!: #Hockey (2018) is the first entry in author Ngozi Ukazu's Check, Please manga comic book series. Ukazu's novel follows Eric Bittle, an incoming Freshman (the novel takes place in Eric's freshman and sophomore years) at Samwell...