To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a Classic Novel written in 1960. It is set in Maycomb, Alabama during the early 1930s and features the main characters Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her older brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch, children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer.
This book is an anguished masterpiece. It follows Leonard, a troubled suicidal boy with a messed up life and a resolution: kill Asher, his best friend until the incident. In a perverted A Christmas Story plotline, Leonard gives four gifts to the four people who matter to him before he ends Asher’s life and his.
The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age story that follows Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in a low-income neighborhood of Chicago. Through a series of heartfelt vignettes, Cisneros shows us Esperanza's struggles with poverty, adolescence, and her desire for a better life.
Splinters of Scarlet by Emily Bain Murphy is a historical fantasy novel set in 19th-century Denmark, following the story of Marit, a talented seamstress with a secret ability to sew magic into garments. When her best friend Eve is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Marit becomes entangled in a dangerous web of political intrigue, espionage, and forbidden magic.
A dizzying prose about body dysmorphia and anorexia, This Impossible Light is a short prose novel unlike any other. It has an interesting style of poetic workspace while telling the story of a short novel. However, the spacing does not help with the story, and the length of the entire book is likely less than one hundred pages without the spacing.
Won, the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA, rose to stardom as one of the best players on the team. A Korean American TV producer, Carrie is working to get Kdramas onto the American stage. Won wants to be a basketball star and renew his temporary contract with the New York Knicks, while Carrie wants to bring representative Korean shows to America. However, extreme racism is a hurdle for both Won and Carrie in their journey along with other life issues involving the relationships of their friends, Carrie’s sister’s cancer, and more.
The main character in the book's name is Hazel and she gets diagnosed with cancer. While being a cancer patient she meets and falls in love with a boy named Augustus Waters, who she meets from her cancer support group. Throughout the story a relationship between Hazel and Augustus develops. Augustus then finds a way to make her dying wish to come true. He takes her to see her favorite author, who wrote the book An Imperial Affliction which she is obsessed with.
Elisabeth is an apprentice librarian in a library full of grimoires, which talk and can be used by sorcerers to perform magic. When a grimoire is damaged, they come to life as ink monsters which wardens protect the world from. Elisabeth hopes to become a warden one day, but when Elisabeth is accused of sabotage to her library, she is taken to the capital by sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon Silas.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series. It follows 12-year-old Harry Potter through his second year at Hogwarts. It’s turning out to be a great year until the attacks start. Will Harry find out who’s behind the attacks before it’s too late?
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson is the thrilling conclusion to the Truly Devious trilogy. Steeped in mystery and suspense, the story follows amateur detective Stevie Bell as she continues her quest to solve the decades-old cold case surrounding the Ellingham Academy. In this final installment, Stevie faces mounting pressure as she inches closer to uncovering the truth behind the mysterious deaths at the academy.
