2666 (2004) is a novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, published one year after Bolaño's death. Centering around a reclusive German author and his role in investigating the ongoing unsolved murders in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, Mexico, 2666 jumps in location, narrative style, location, and characters over its five sections. The novel is widely acclaimed and was adapted into stage plays three times. The New York Times Book Review ranked 2666 as the... Read 2666 Summary

Lisa Graff’s Absolutely Almost (2014) is a middle-grade novel about self-acceptance and recognizing one’s own worth. The story follows 10-year-old Albie’s journey along this path. Albie has never been the best at anything, especially anything to do with school. He continually falls short of others’ expectations, especially his parents’. However, his new nanny, Calista, sees him differently—and gradually, she helps Albie discover his strengths and take pride in himself.Graff is an American writer who pens... Read Absolutely Almost Summary

A Court of Frost and Starlight is the fourth book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. It has elements of romance and primarily follows Feyre Archeron, a once-human woman and now High Fae and High Lady of the Night Court, and her partner Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court, in the aftermath of a major war with the King of Hybern. The novel explores their efforts to rebuild and co-create a... Read A Court of Frost and Starlight Summary

Addicted to You (2013) is a new adult romance novel written by Krista and Becca Ritchie. It is the first installment in the Addicted series, which focuses on Lily Calloway and Lo Hale as they navigate their experiences with addiction, co-dependency, and their complex relationship. The series expands into a shared universe with the Calloway Sisters spinoffs, creating a 10-book interconnected saga. The Ritchies are identical twin sisters who have co-written since childhood, and their... Read Addicted to You Summary

Published in 2026, A Far-Flung Life is a historical family saga by M. L. Stedman, the Australian author of the internationally bestselling novel The Light Between Oceans. Set on a vast sheep station in the Western Australian outback, the story begins in 1958 when a sudden truck crash kills the patriarch of the MacBride family and his heir, leaving the youngest son, Matt, with a brain injury that erases his memory. This tragedy, rooted in... Read A Far-flung Life Summary

A Few Good Men is a play written by Aaron Sorkin and first performed in 1989. The story involves a military lawyer who defends two Marines accused of murder. The play was well-received, and Sorkin adapted it into a screenplay for the film of the same name (released in 1992), which was a popular and critical success.Plot SummaryA Few Good Men opens as two Marines, Downey and Dawson, recall the details of a nighttime incident... Read A Few Good Men Summary

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham chronicles the turbulent family history of Chloe Davis, a successful medical psychologist whose father is a convicted serial killer. Published in 2022, A Flicker in the Dark explores the complexities of trauma as Chloe struggles to uncover the truth behind the tragic murders of various young women. A Flicker in the Dark was Willingham’s debut novel and features plot twists and flashbacks that suspensefully examine Chloe’s self-discovery... Read A Flicker in the Dark Summary

Elizabeth Acevedo is a contemporary spoken-word poet and National Poetry Slam champion whose work focuses on Dominican American culture and the reality of living at the intersection of multiple languages, races, and forms of oppression. Like many slam poems—poems created for performance at competitions—“Afro-Latina” has been repeatedly shared and revised; but 2015 is the accepted year of publication. Acevedo explains that the poem “was written initially as a group poem with poet and friend Frank... Read Afro-Latina Summary

A Game of Thrones is a 1996 epic fantasy novel by George R. R. Martin and is the first in his long-running A Song of Ice and Fire series. The novel introduces the audience to the fictional world of Westeros, where characters become embroiled in a complicated web of plots, conspiracies, and betrayals as they pursue power. A Game of Thrones won numerous awards on publication and was adapted for television in 2011. This guide... Read A Game of Thrones Summary

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a novel for young adults with elements of mystery and crime. Written by Holly Jackson in 2019, it is the first novel in a series of the same name. Other books in the series include Good Girl, Bad Blood (2021) and As Good as Dead (2021). This study guide refers to the 2019 Delacorte Press hardcopy edition of the novel.Plot SummaryPippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi is a teenager in Fairview... Read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Summary

A House for Mr. Biswas is a 1961 historical fiction novel by V. S. Naipaul. The story takes a postcolonial perspective of the life of a Hindu Indian man in British-owned and occupied Trinidad. Now regarded as one of Naipaul's most significant novels, A House for Mr. Biswas has won numerous awards and has been adapted as a musical, a radio drama, and a television show. Naipaul is also known for the works The Mimic... Read A House for Mr. Biswas Summary

Written by Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark (2020) is a middle grade novel that follows Addie, an 11-year-old Scottish girl with autism who campaigns to erect a memorial in honor of women who were persecuted as witches during the Scottish witch trials. Like her protagonist, McNicoll is also neurodivergent, and her lived experience lends her narrative an authenticity that has been widely praised by critics and readers alike. The novel explores themes of Combating Prejudice... Read A Kind of Spark Summary

Alive is a nonfiction book published in 1974 by the British author Piers Paul Read. It is based on the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. The stranded men resorted to cannibalism to survive. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. Plot SummaryRugby first came to Uruguay via a group of Irish priests hired to educate the children of... Read Alive Summary

Wanda M. Morris’s 2021 debut novel All Her Little Secrets explores race, discrimination, and ethics in the corporate world. The thriller centers around Ellice Littlejohn, a Black lawyer at Houghton Transportation, who discovers the body of her murdered boss Michael Sayles. After Houghton promotes Ellice to Michael’s job, she uncovers illegal activity at the company as the police suspect her of murdering Michael. Morris emphasizes themes of racism in the corporate world and the questions... Read All Her Little Secrets Summary

All In (2015) is a young adult psychological thriller by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and the third installment in the Naturals series. The story follows the Naturals, a group of gifted teenagers who consult for the FBI, as they are called to Las Vegas to hunt a serial killer whose methods are rooted in a complex mathematical pattern. At the same time, protagonist Cassie Hobbes must grapple with a shocking development in her mother’s cold case... Read All In Summary

All’s Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare (1582-1616), one of the most influential writers in the English language. The date of composition is not known, but All’s Well That Ends Well was first performed between 1598 and 1608. It was published in 1623, in the First Folio. Shakespeare’s work is part of Early Modern English literature, alongside playwrights like Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe, during which time the play and theater... Read All's Well That Ends Well Summary

All the Glimmering Stars (2024) is a historical fiction novel by Mark Sullivan based on true events in Uganda during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency. When the LRA kidnaps Anthony Opoka from his home, he’s forced to become a child soldier and fight for more than a decade in notorious warlord Joseph Kony’s army. Because of the atrocities he’s forced to support, Anthony struggles with conflicting feelings of anger, shame, and even pride as... Read All the Glimmering Stars Summary

Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, which premiered at the London Royal National Theatre in 1979, presents a fictionalized history of the renowned composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of Antonio Salieri, a composer whose lackluster artistic legacy has been all but buried by time. The play begins on the eve of what Salieri, now an old man, believes will be the last day of his life. Salieri narrates and reenacts the story of his tumultuous... Read Amadeus Summary

A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as The Proposal) is a one-act farce written by Anton Chekhov in 1888-1889 that premiered in 1890. Chekhov was a major literary figure in late 19th-century Russia, a winner of the Pushkin Prize, and is considered a founder of the modern theater. A Marriage Proposal depicts the near-failure of a landowner’s attempt to wed his neighbor’s daughter, the conversation continually reverting to arguments over trivial side-issues. In addition to exploring... Read A Marriage Proposal Summary

Following in the literary footsteps of John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy, Philipp Meyer’s American Rust (2010) explores the catastrophic effects of economic devastation on the lives of six characters in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, once home to a thriving steel and coal industry (and a solid-middle class) but now populated by broken lives and shuttered businesses. The novel was a winner of the Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a Washington Post Top Ten... Read American Rust Summary