Dork Diaries is a 16-book illustrated diary series written by Rachel Renée Russell and published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. It follows 14-year-old Nikki Maxwell through the social wars of Westchester Country Day middle school. Since its launch, the series has spent 331 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list for Children’s … Read more
Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by English author Jane Austen, published anonymously on January 28, 1813, by Thomas Egerton in London. Its most structurally significant attribute is the free indirect discourse technique that delivers Elizabeth Bennet’s perceptions without the mediation of a formal narrator, fusing irony and interiority in a way that … Read more
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a first-person, parable-structured personal finance narrative by American-Hawaiian entrepreneur Robert T. Kiyosaki, co-authored with Sharon Lechter and self-published in 1997 through Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Technologies imprint. Its central technique is the juxtaposition of two father figures (one credentialed but financially dependent, one entrepreneurially minded and asset-rich) to argue that formal education … Read more
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is a multi-POV dark fantasy heist novel published in 2015 by Henry Holt and Co., set in the fictional city of Ketterdam, a trading hub modeled after Dutch Republic-era Amsterdam. The 465-page hardcover follows six morally compromised outcasts led by criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker as they attempt to break … Read more
If you picked up Brave New World expecting a comfortable science fiction adventure and instead found yourself staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m. wondering if your phone is basically soma, you are absolutely not alone. And you are, without question, ready for what comes next. Aldous Huxley published Brave New World in 1932, and … Read more
If you have ever closed the final page of a Dresden Files novel at two in the morning, bleary-eyed and weirdly grateful that you have nowhere important to be tomorrow, you already understand the particular ache that follows. It is not just a book hangover. It is something closer to missing a city you have … Read more
If you’ve finished Shadow and Bone and found yourself staring at the wall, reluctant to re-enter normal life, you’re in very good company. Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels have collectively earned over 266,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads for the first book alone, and Bardugo herself was ranked the sixth most-read author on the platform between 2016 … Read more
If you finished Eragon and immediately stared at the wall for ten minutes wondering what to do with your life, you are not alone. Christopher Paolini’s debut novel has that effect on people. The story of a farm boy named Eragon who discovers a dragon egg in the wilderness of Alagaësia and gets swept into … Read more
If you’ve finished Sylvia Day’s Crossfire saga and you’re sitting there staring at your wall wondering what just happened to your sleep schedule, your productivity, and your ability to care about anything that isn’t Gideon Cross, you are not alone. I’ve reviewed hundreds of romance novels over the years, and I can tell you with … Read more
Because one trip to Singapore’s gilded upper crust was never going to be enough Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians was not supposed to be a cultural earthquake. It was published in 2013 by a relatively quiet imprint, without the thunderous marketing campaigns we’ve come to expect … Read more