The Most Dangerous Place on Earth (TMDPOE) is set in a wealthy suburb of San Francisco. It follows the high school years of a group of privileged students, and it explores the darkness each one is hiding. Through various narrators and characters, TMDPOE shows how...

Afterworlds, by Scott Westerfeld, is a Young Adult (YA) book that shifts between the lives of Darcy, a talented young author, and Lizzie, the protagonist in a book written by Darcy. The chapters that focus on Darcy’s life tell the story of a pensive, scared 18-year-old who thrusts...

In a Wide Country takes place across the prairie provinces of Canada. The book starts in Winnipeg, where 12-year-old Jasper and his model mother Corinne are situated after Jasper’s father died years ago in a plane crash. After Corrine begins a relationship with Dean, things turn dark...

Anne Eliot abandons her love, Captain Wentworth, after her best friend, Mrs. Russell, persuades her she can do better. But when Anne crosses paths with him eight years later, he is a rich captain and she is a sad, lonely woman who has “lost her bloom.”

This book is another great classic...

The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel set in a time when women had all their rights taken away by a new government called the Republic of Gilead. In this world women can’t have jobs, money, property or freedom. Fertility is a big issue, and fertile women who do not have husbands are...