Author Katherine Mansfield's short story "A Cup of Tea" was first published in May 1922 as a part of pulp British magazine. The short story, which tells the story of a young woman named Rosemary Fell, was based on the author's own life. Rosemary...

The Bell Jar was first published in London in January 1963 by William Heinemann Limited publishers under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, for Sylvia Plath questioned the literary value of the novel and did not believe that it was a "serious work."...

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun was published by Faber and Faber in 2021. As with many of Ishiguro's novel, Klara and the Sun imagines a future in which humans live in a dystopia. Here, children are genetically engineered and...

Author Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's idea for Random Family, which was published in 2003 by Scribner, was born out of her article for Newsday about the trial of an infamous heroin dealer named "Boy George," who became so wildly successful that many...

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is an ethnographic study written by anthropologist and physician Seth Holmes. It was published on 10th June 2013 by University of California Press. The book looks into the lives of migrant farmworkers from Mexico,...

“The Subjection of Women,” one of Mill’s most renowned essays, was published in 1869, and stands as one of the 19th century’s strongest calls for gender equality. In this essay, Mill argues that the inferior political status of women in comparison...

The Eyes and the Impossible is a middle-grade novel written by American writer Dave Eggers. It explores themes of friendship, freedom, and the natural world. This book, illustrated by Shawn Harris, was published in 2023 and has since received...

Five Little Indians is a historical fiction novel by Cree writer Michelle Good. HarperCollins published it in April 2020. The novel received several accolades including the Governor General’s Literary Award. Good developed the novel while pursuing...

Published in 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, Wandering Stars is a novel written by Tommy Orange. The author is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Wandering Stars follows his debut novel There There (2018), which garnered widespread...

Kairos is a novel published in German in 2021 by Jenny Erpenbeck. The story became the first written by a German author to win the International Booker Prize which honors both the author and translator of a foreign language book that has been...

Ama Ata Aidoo published Our Sister Killjoy in 1979. Though a novel, it reflected her own experiences abroad. She explained in an interview, “I created [Sissie], it’s inevitable that a certain part of me will be reflected in her. But it is not an...

Thomas Hardy was an influential British writer and poet whose work focuses on rural life, class distinctions and conflict, and the shared human experiences of love and disappointment. “Neutral Tones,” written in 1867 and originally published in...

Amber McBride's Me (Moth) (2021) is a young-adult verse novel about Moth, a teenage girl who struggles with the grief of losing her family in a car crash. When Moth meets a boy named Sani, the two instantly connect through their shared pain and...

The novel Moby Dick was the sixth novel published by Herman Melville, a landmark of American literature that mixed a number of literary styles including a fictional adventure story, historical detail and even scientific discussion. The story of...

The novel Blackouts explores queer history through the memories of two men in a mentor-mentee relationship. Juan and nene discuss their experiences as gay men and Juan tells nene about Jan Gay and the Sex Variants book that co-opted her research...