176 years ago, Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights. It’s a tragic tale of generational abuse, trauma, racism, and class division. The story was so dark and twisted that the Victorian critics couldn’t...
“Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you to another version of yourself” (Henry, 172).
The People We Meet on Vacation, a popular novel and recently adapted movie...
In this thrilling Dark Academia read, James Islington drops readers into the Catenan Republic – often just referred to as the “Hierarchy” – a fictional society based on Ancient Rome with a...
Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Nickel Boys follows a group of Black youths who are forced into an abusive reformatory school. Set in the 1960s, and based off of a real reformatory school, Dozier Academy...
Movie adaptations of beloved books are always a risk. Fans come in ready to criticize every casting choice, cut scene, and tiny tweak. But The Housemaid movie proves that even if the adaptation isn't exactly...
We’ve all seen what happens when the debatable novelist Colleen Hoover gets even a taste of Hollywood. Ever since her first movies, It Ends With Us, and Regretting You, she's been on an epic losing...
The Bell Jar is a timeless semi-autobiographical story of a young white woman fighting for her sanity in a misogynistic world. The novel touches on themes of mental health, sexism, young adulthood,...
Content warning: Transphobia, brief mention of violence
For years, transgender people have constantly lived in fear. There have been times when I was afraid to leave my house in fear of being attacked...
Many readers have attempted taking on the intimidating world of non-fiction books — whether it be for an assignment or as an attempt to mix up their reading repertoire — however, it’s easy to get...
Keeper of The Lost Cities (also known as Keepers) is an amazing book series by Sharron Messenger that has nine and a half books (including book 8.5 which doesn’t have an actual story until the end)....
Many Netflix users have probably encountered The Three Body Problem, a sci-fi show released in 2024. I was intrigued to discover that it was adapted from a book written by a greatly celebrated author on...
Out of all the books I read in 2025, Fourth Wing was the most complex in world-building and characters. I had been in search of a dragon book for a while, and man, did I find one.
The setting of the...
AP Language and Composition, which I took with Brittany Ray my junior year, was easily my favorite English class up to that point. For anyone wondering what Ray’s version of AP Lang and Comp looks like,...
If you had the power to decide who lives and dies, would you use it?
In Death Note (2025) a graphic manga novel written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, Light Yagami is given...
Suzanne Collins has consistently been praised for her social commentary with the original Hunger Games trilogy, specifically on how our culture settles for entertainment rather than fighting for injustice...
Simon Winder’s Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History (Picador, 2011) believes the most important part of German history is Adolf Hitler. It is a history book about something its...
Micheal Crichton’s Prey: Smart, Fun, and Surprisingly Scary
When people look at Micheal Crichton’s legacy, they remember the world-renowned Jurassic Park, which saw most of its fame through the...
Guy Haines sits comfortably as he rides on a Train to Florida to see his soon-to-be ex-wife, Marim. He struggles to get back to his new love, Anne – the wall between them is Marim; Marim hardly wants...
I have a list of books that are my favorites. Books that make me feel all the feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, and heartbreak. My Sister’s Keeper is at the top of my list because of the emotion...
As winter approaches, the tried and true tradition of curling up with a cozy blanket, hot chocolate, and great read is upon us. Many struggle to find insightful and appreciated gifts for their loved ones...
“It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion…” Charlotte Brontë'’s...
The popular John Green novel Turtles All The Way Down (2017) has FINALLY been made into a movie. It stars Isabela Merced, Felix Mallard, and Cree Cinnhino. There was a lot of pressure on making a movie...
Prepare to be swept away by a tale of lost love, second chances, and the haunting questions of “what if?” in If He Had Been With Me, by Laura Nowlin. With heart-wrenching emotion, this novel explores...
I have a hard time finding books to read, and even then, I have a hard time continuing them. I wanted to know how others found their own books and what kept them reading.
Most of the time people find...
If you like reading and are on TikTok, you’ve probably ended up on BookTok, where all the readers talk about different books, and then the popularity of those books grows. But are they popular because...
Solitaire by Alice Oseman is a book speaking on the social struggles at school through the perspective of the asocial and awkward Tori Spring.
Solitaire is absolutely worth the read. Osemans’s storytelling...
Before I say anything else, I want to make it clear that Ayana Grey’s first-in-the-series Beasts of Prey (2021) is not a bad book. I very much enjoyed it while reading. The characters were unique,...
Sjón’s The Blue Fox (2008) is gloriously good — if you don’t know whether or not to read it, you should. It’s a magnificently made modern myth which has wriggled its way deep into my heart, and...
Imagine – it’s late at night, and the lights are dimmed. You’re wrapped in a blanket, there is a cup of tea by your side, and you’re reading. If that sounds nice, I have just the book for you:...
