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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a nonfiction book written by American author Michael Pollan published in 2006. In the book, Pollan asks the seemingly direct question of what we should dine on. As omnivores, the most...

Salvage the Bones is a 2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward and received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2011. The novel explores the plight of a working-class African American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follow them...

The Sympathizer is The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel and received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His reviews have generally recognized his excellence, and he...

Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. She has described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance, rather than pure science fiction, because it does not address things that "we cannot yet do or are beginning...

Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 poem by the American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen extends the conventions of traditional lyrical poetry by interweaving various forms of text and media in a collective portrait of race relations in the United...

Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. Published in 2004, the fantastic speculative fiction book consists of six interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the...

Persepolis is an autobiographical series of bande dessinées (French comics) By Marjane Satrapi that describes her childhood until the early years of her adult life in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title Persepolis is a...

A Wild Sheep Chase (羊 を め ぐ る 冒 険, Hitsuji or Meguru bōken) (literally An Adventure Surrounding Sheep) is the third novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. First published in Japan in 1982, it was translated into English in 1989. It is an...

Neapolitan novels are a 4-part series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein and published by Europa Editions (New York). They include the following novels: My Brilliant Friend (2012), The Story of a New Name (2013), Who...

Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Book...

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during the Stalin regime. A censored version was published in the Moscow magazine in...

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (titled Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the UK) is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. At the time of the disaster (April...

Half of a Yellow Sun is a Novel By Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf / Anchor, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. Book...

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by the American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted to other media multiple times, including an animated short in 1973...

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969. It follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years until his time...

The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a boring boy named Milo who unexpectedly takes a magical toll...

A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book by the American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of the story of the traditional "fundamental...

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2005 (an award that Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke...

Maus is a graphic novel by the American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques and...

Man's Search For Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl that recounts his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and describes his psychotherapeutic method, which involved...

The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular and established Le Guin's status as one of the leading science fiction authors. [6] The novel is set in the...

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. The novel is widely known for its unconventional narrative structure and its experimental use of endnotes (there are 388 endnotes, some with their own notes). It has been...

If on a winter's night a traveler (in Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodern narrative, in the form of a framework story, is about the reader trying to read a book called...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hitchhike Comedy Science Fiction Trilogy. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of the Adams radio series of the same...

Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book focuses on events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender named...

Geek Love is a novel by Katherine Dunn, published in its entirety by Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989. Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days (1983) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review (1988). She was a...

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. His fourth book and his first full-length non-fiction work follow three fiction books: Jonathan Troy (1954), The...

All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published in 2000 that analyzes aspects of love in modern society. Hooks combines personal anecdotes as well as psychological and philosophical ideas to develop and strengthen his argument. She...

The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his first novel under his own name. Originally released in 2011; Crown Publishing bought the rights and relaunched them in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark...

Inferno is a 2013 thriller and mystery novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, which follows Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol. The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years...