Fiction

Title: Beautiful World, Where Are YouAuthor: Sally RooneyPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxGenre: Fiction, Literary FictionYear of Publication: 2021Date of Publication: September 7, 2021Pages: 368ISBN-10: 0374602603ISBN-13: 978-0374602604 Summary Beautiful World, Where Are You follows the intertwined […]

Title: Malibu RisingAuthor: Taylor Jenkins ReidPublisher: Ballantine BooksGenre: Fiction, Historical FictionYear of Publication: 2021Date of Publication: June 1, 2021Pages: 384ISBN-10: 1524798657ISBN-13: 978-1524798659 Summary Malibu Rising is set in the 1980s and follows the Riva siblings—Nina, […]

Title: The Lying Life of AdultsAuthor: Elena FerrantePublisher: Europa EditionsGenre: Fiction, Literary FictionYear of Publication: 2020Date of Publication: September 1, 2020Pages: 324ISBN-10: 1609455916ISBN-13: 978-1609455910 Summary The Lying Life of Adults is a coming-of-age novel set […]

Have you read this book already, or is it on your list? And if you’ve read it, which scene or chapter left the biggest impression on you, and why?

Title: No One Is Talking About ThisAuthor: Patricia LockwoodPublisher: Riverhead BooksGenre: Literary FictionYear of Publication: 2021Date of Publication: February 16, 2021Pages: 224ISBN-10: 0593189582ISBN-13: 978-0593189580 Summary No One Is Talking About This follows a woman who […]

Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Classix Press; 8/13/09 edition (September 12, 2009)Genre: Literary Fiction, FictionYear of Publication: 1915Date of Publication: Originally published in 1915 (September 12, 2009)Pages: 44ISBN-10: 978-1557427663ISBN-13: 978-1557427663 Summary In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa awakens […]

Author: Ursula Vernon (writing as T. Kingfisher)Publisher: Tor NightfireGenre: Horror, Gothic FictionYear of Publication: 2022Date of Publication: July 12, 2022Pages: 176ISBN-10: 1250830753ISBN-13: 978-1250830753 Summary What Moves the Dead is a modern reimagining of Poe’s The […]

Author: Kate ChopinPublisher: Dover PublicationsGenre: Literary Fiction, ClassicYear of Publication: 1899Date of Publication: November 4, 1993 (Dover Thrift Edition)Pages: 128ISBN-10: 0486277860ISBN-13: 978-0486277868 Summary The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother in late […]

Author: John ScalziPublisher: Tor BooksGenre: Science Fiction, Military Sci-FiYear of Publication: 2005Date of Publication: January 15, 2005Pages: 320ISBN-10: 0765309408ISBN-13: 978-0765309402 Summary Old Man’s War introduces John Perry, who, on his 75th birthday, visits his wife’s […]

Author: Ian McEwanPublisher: Jonathan CapeGenre: Literary Fiction, Historical FictionYear of Publication: 2003Date of Publication: February 25, 2003Pages: 351ISBN-10: 9780385721790ISBN-13: 978-0385721790 Summary Atonement unfolds on a hot summer day in 1935, when thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses […]

Author: Elena FerrantePublisher: Europa EditionsGenre: Literary FictionYear of Publication: 2014Date of Publication: September 1, 2015 (English Translation)Pages: 473ISBN-10: 1609452860ISBN-13: 978-1609452865 Summary The Story of the Lost Child is the final installment in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, […]