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Book Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, just weeks before Sylvia Plath’s death, The Bell Jar has become one […]

Published in 1988, The Silence of the Lambs is one of those rare thrillers that escaped its genre cage and

When The Immortalists came out in 2018, it felt like one of those high-concept literary novels that could’ve gone either

Ann Patchett is known for novels that feel both intimate and sweeping—like someone whispering secrets across generations. Commonwealth, published in

When The Help was released in 2009, it became an instant publishing phenomenon: a debut novel that topped bestseller lists

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is one of those rare literary feats that almost dares you to underestimate

When Tuesdays with Morrie was published in 1997, it quietly became one of those books that lives on coffee tables,

Helen Fielding unleashed Bridget Jones’s Diary into the world in 1996, and it basically detonated an entire subgenre—modern “chick lit,”

Stephanie Perkins made her name writing fluffy YA romances (Anna and the French Kiss, anyone?), so when she pivoted to

Published in 1943, The Little Prince has lived more lives than its author ever did—which is saying something, considering Saint-Exupéry