Paper Towns is a coming-of-age story about a boy, Q, who has always been “in love” with his next door…
A Wrinkle in Time is a young-adult fantasy novel about three kids (Meg, an awkward, impatient, mathematical genius; Charles Wallace,…
Gone Girl is a mystery/thriller novel about a women who goes missing on the day of her fifth wedding anniversary.…
The Wizard of Earthsea is the first fantasy novel in the Earthsea series. It follows a young wizard as he…
The Golden Compass is about an orphan, Lyra, who lives with scholars on a college campus. One day her friend,…
This is a book about a ghost, Helen, who is stuck in a purgatory-like state. She figures out how to…
The Scorpio Races is based on the hard-to-pronounce mythological creatures capaill uisce (copple ooshka), also known as water horses. These…
This is a book about three African-American friends in their fifties, known as “The Supremes”, in their small town in…
The Double Bind is a novel about a rape survivor who ends up working at a homeless shelter. After one…
Ok—let me start off by explaining why it took me so long to read this book, as I realize that…