Загрузка
Skip carousel
Booker Prize winner…
Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. A deeply sympathetic story about poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow, and a cutting look at the impact of Thatcherism in Scotland. The titular character, the young Shuggie Bain, is desperate to escape the trappings of being poor and attain that elusive status of “normal”; his mother, Agnes, wants to stay sober but keeps falling back into alcoholism. “Challenging, intimate and gripping … anyone who reads it will never feel the same,” said the Booker Prize judges.
Nobel Prize winner…
Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” according to the Swedish Academy, which oversees the award. Glück has long been considered one of America’s greatest contemporary poets, and this melancholic National Book Award-winning poetry collection is one of her best.
Book-to-screen…
The supernatural forces, secret sorcerers’ cult, and monsters reaching out of these pages won’t scare you half as much as the very real racism an African American family faces as they search for their missing father during Jim Crow. Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams adapted this trope-busting book into a series now streaming on HBO.
Hispanic Heritage Month…
Isabel Allende was one of the first prominent female writers of Latin American fiction when she published her stunning debut in 1985. Her follow up, “Daughter of Fortune,” gained so much acclaim that it was selected for Oprah’s Book Club shortly after it was published. The story follows an orphan raised in Chile, Eliza Sommers, as she journeys north to Gold Rush era California. It’s a novel of growth, longing, and immense discovery, further solidifying Allende as a prominent voice in literature.
Halloween…
The first book out of the popular “Welcome to Night Vale” series takes the podcast’s surrealist absurdism to new heights. Focusing on the perspectives of Jackie Fierro and Diane Crayton, it’s a perfect read for those who can’t get enough of the desert town’s oddities.
Book club pick…
For Hispanic Heritage Month, writers John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas chose Valeria Luiselli’s novel about novels for their book club, Life’s Library. “Faces in the Crowd” is “Concerned, above all, with literature's ability to transcend time and space,” according to a review from Mina Holland in The Guardian.
Skip carousel
Подборка от Scribd Editors
The Best Thanksgiving Books, Per O, The Oprah Magazine
Celebrate the holiday with some of O’s favorite classics for the whole family.Подборка от Scribd Editors
Bestselling Novels That Started as NaNoWriMo Drafts
These beloved stories started as National Novel Writing Month ideas.Подборка от Scribd Editors
Memoirs and Novels by Queer Authors of Color
Tales of joy and heartbreak from some leading LGBTQ+ writers.Подборка от Scribd Editors
Classics We Finally Have Time to Read in Quarantine
Long classics we finally have time to check off our to-read list.