Geekhood: Mission Improbable is a young adult comedic novel written by Andy Robb, published in 2013. It is the second book in the Geekhood series (following Close Encounters of the Girl Kind), continuing the humorous and heartfelt adventures of fourteen-year-old Archie, a self-proclaimed geek who navigates the chaotic intersection of role-playing games, family dysfunction, and the terrifying my…
The Diary of a Young Girl (originally published in Dutch as Het Achterhuis or The Annex) is the diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family and four others for two years during the Nazi persecution of the Netherlands. Published posthumously by her father, Otto Frank, in 1947, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books in the world, serving as an endurin…
Among the Barons is the fourth book in Margaret Peterson Haddix's gripping, dystopian science-fiction series, The Shadow Children. Published in 2003, the series is set in a totalitarian future where the government enforces a strict Population Police law allowing families to have only two children. The story follows "third children" (illegal shadow children) who must live entirely in hiding to e…
At age 17, Meera falls infatuated with Dev, a charismatic but underachieving pop singer. To escape her controlling father, she marries Dev, only to find herself trapped in a bleak, suffocating marriage in a conservative household.
Sons and Lovers is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece written by English author D.H. Lawrence and published in 1913. Widely regarded as one of the greatest psychological novels in the English language, it explores the destructive complexities of class struggle, familial duty, industrial poverty in a Nottinghamshire mining town, and the suffocating psychological weight of Oedipal attachment.
The epic poem follows Odysseus, the clever king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home after the decade-long Trojan War. Because it took him ten years to get home, his journey spans twenty years in total. The narrative is divided into three main parts: the Telemachy (the search by his son), Odysseus’s adventures and trials at sea, and his triumphant return and reclamation of his home.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a classic Victorian novel written by English author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and published in 1861. Set in the early 19th century, the novel tells the heartwarming, redemptive tale of a rebitterized, solitary weaver who loses his faith in humanity and God, only to have his soul restored through the unexpected arrival of an abandoned golden-haired orph…
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and The Power-House (1916) are two of the most famous and influential thrillers written by Scottish novelist, historian, and politician John Buchan. Featuring his iconic protagonist, Richard Hannay, these gripping novellas essentially invented the modern espionage and "man-on-the-run" thriller genre, laying the groundwork for everything from James Bond to Alfred Hit…
The story revolves around the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. Because their estate is entailed and can only pass to a male heir (their cousin Mr. Collins), Mrs. Bennet is desperate to marry off all her daughters to secure their financial futures.