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Code Name Verity (2012), by Elizabeth Wein, operates on several levels: as a historical novel detailing the World War II exploits of two British women—a spy and a pilot—behind enemy lines in occupied France; as a thriller, with a twisting plot; and as a coming-of-age story for two women, who are still teenagers when they meet and become friends during the course of their war work.Plot SummaryThe first part of the novel takes place in... Read Code Name Verity Summary

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a 2014 novel by renowned Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. The novel tells the story of a man who attempts to overcome past emotional suffering to make his present life more rewarding. Through Tsukuru’s point of view, we see the ripple effects of rejection and the necessity of sometimes confronting the past to make sense of who we are in the present. After a group of friends... Read Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Summary

Published in 2000, Confessions of a Shopaholic was the breakout success of British novelist Sophie Kinsella (the pen name of Madeleine Wickham), a former financial journalist from London. Before adopting the Kinsella pseudonym, Wickham published several traditional novels, but she gained international recognition through the Shopaholic series, along with later stand-alone works such as Can You Keep a Secret? and The Undomestic Goddess.The novel follows Rebecca Bloomwood, a journalist whose compulsive spending habits clash comically... Read Confessions of a Shopaholic Summary

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Published in 2026, Contrapposto is a picaresque novel and Bildungsroman by American author Dave Eggers. The novel traces the life of a talented artist named Rob “Cricket” Dibb. From his childhood in Indiana to his entanglements with the contemporary art world, Cricket’s journey is a lifelong quest to reconcile his skill-based creative drive with the external pressures of commerce, theory, and ambition. The narrative explores themes such as The Corrosive Nature of the Art Market... Read Contrapposto Summary

Conversations with Friends is Irish writer Sally Rooney’s debut novel, published in 2017. Rooney wrote the novel when she was 25 and followed it up quickly with Normal People in 2018 and Beautiful World, Where Are You in 2021. All three works have garnered award nominations, and the first two have been adapted into television series. Conversations with Friends tells the story of Frances and Bobbi— college students, best friends, and former girlfriends—and Nick and... Read Conversations with Friends Summary

Written by Michael Frayn, Copenhagen is a two-act play based on a real-life meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941. Although based on real events, the play is nonlinear, as its three characters (Bohr, Heisenberg, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe) reunite after death to relive and better understand that fateful meeting. First performed in 1998, the play has won numerous awards, including a Tony Award for Best Play. The play was also adapted... Read Copenhagen Summary

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Cost of Living, a play by Martyna Majok, premiered in 2016 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. It transferred to an off-Broadway theatre in 2017, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, and is slated to debut on Broadway in fall, 2022. The play was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and also won a 2018 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. The title of the play refers not only to the monetary costs of... Read Cost of Living Summary

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Criss Cross (2005) is a Newberry Award-winning middle grade novel by American children’s writer Lynne Rae Perkins. Set in the fictional town of Seldem in the 1970s, Criss Cross traces the protagonist Debbie’s coming-of-age experiences in the summer she turns 14. The title refers to how people’s lives intersect—or “criss cross”—through chance meetings and friendships. This happens to Debbie when her neighbor’s grandson, Peter, comes to visit. She develops feelings for him and wonders if... Read Criss Cross Summary

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Published in 2010, Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a literary crime novel centered around two unsolved murders that connect past and present. The novel follows Silas Jones, a black constable in a small town in Mississippi, and Larry Ott, the white suspect in a decades-old, unsolved murder. Silas and Larry grew up alongside each other and developed a tentative friendship that the two grown men explore through flashbacks. When another teenaged girl goes... Read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Summary

Crossing to Safety is a 1987 semi-autobiographical novel by Wallace Stegner. Structured around a series of flashbacks in the mind of an aging writer, Larry Morgan, throughout a single day, the novel examines the challenges of youth, idealism, and the often unarticulated but lifelong process of compromise that comes with the search for a stable place in the world. Stegner’s novel explores these ideas via Larry’s perspective on two academic couples: Larry and his wife... Read Crossing to Safety Summary