A Usborne Look Inside The Christmas Story is a gorgeously illustrated interactive picture book that uses playful exploration and compassionate storytelling to introduce young children to the Nativity. The book, which is a part of Usborne’s beloved “Peep Inside” series, retells the Christmas narrative in an interesting and age-appropriate manner using lift-the-flap graphics. Image Source:…
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is a compelling and thought-provoking techno-thriller that combines young rebellion with pressing political critique. The protagonist of the book is Marcus Yallow, a tech-savvy teenager who, in a near-future San Francisco shaken by a major terrorist assault, becomes an unlikely freedom fighter after he and his friends are detained by…
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood’s 176-page short novel Seascraper was released on July 17, 2025. The book made the 2025 Booker Prize long list.The plot, which takes place in the made-up northern English coastal town of Longferry, revolves around Thomas Flett, a young man who works as a “shanker” (horse-cart-dragging the seashore for shrimp) and secretly dreams of…
Jackdaw by Tade Thompson
British-Nigerian novelist Tade Thompson’s novella Jackdaw veers between psychological drama, dark comedy, horror, and metafiction. The main character, also known as “Tade Thompson,” is a writer and psychiatrist who has been hired to write a biography of Francis Bacon, a painter. Thompson’s own mind unravels as he tries to analyse Bacon’s life: hallucinations, apparitions (including…
My Education by Susan Choi
My Education by Susan Choi is a witty, intense book that examines obsession, desire, and the intricacies of interpersonal relationships. The book is fundamentally a coming-of-age tale that challenges our understanding of love as well as the ways in which memory rewrites and reinterprets our past. In the early 1990s, Regina Gottlieb, a 21-year-old graduate…
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019, is a heartbreaking and exquisitely written book that addresses two of America’s most sinister realities: the pervasive brutality of reform schools and the lingering effects of racial injustice. The novel, which draws inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for Boys…
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a subtly devastating book that continues Ishiguro’s long-running examination of memory, longing, and the limits of what it means to be human. It is a combination of science fiction with emotional theme. This 2021 publication, which was Ishiguro’s first book following his 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature…
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
The expansive, semi-autobiographical book Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts transports readers to the colourful and chaotic world of Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1980s. The novel, which is more than 900 pages long, chronicles the journey of Lin, an escaped Australian prisoner who is looking for atonement and a fresh start in India. Roberts’ story…
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart is a dystopian satire that is darkly humorous and combines a poignant, if hopeless, romance with scathing social commentary. The plot revolves around the strange relationship between Lenny Abramov, a middle-aged Russian American who enjoys reading, and Eunice Park, a young Korean-American who was raised in today’s…
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas’s poetic and sentimental classic, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, captures the enchantment, cosiness, and purity of childhood recollections over the Christmas season. It began as a 1952 radio broadcast and has since grown to become a treasured work of literature, praised for its timeless charm, lyrical language, and vivid imagery. Through the eyes…