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This World We Live In is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2010 by Harcourt Books. It is the third book in The Last Survivors series, being a sequel to The Dead and the Gone and Life as We Knew It. It was followed in 2013 by The Shade of the Moon, which concluded the series.
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
The Cat Who Saved Books (本を守ろうとする猫の話) is a 2017 novel by Sosuke Natsukawa , published by Shogakukan. Its English translation, done by Louise Heal Kawai, was published in 2021 by HarperVia. [1] It was the first novel by Natsukawa that was translated into English. [2]
The novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 2009 book The Scarecrow. Themes explored in the book include the decline of investigative journalism and the print-newspaper, the rise of fake news, the misogynistic incel movement, and the dangers of trafficking in DNA sequence data by an industry having no government oversight or regulations.
Here Today is a children's novel by Ann M. Martin. It was first published in 2004 and takes place in the 1960s. [1] The story is about Ellie, an 11-year-old whose mother is irresponsible and whose siblings are argumentative. [2] She, along with her best friend Holly, gets bullied and treated like she does not exist.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The Known World is a historical novel by American author Edward P. Jones, published in 2003. Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel explores the complex and morally ambiguous world of slavery, focusing on the unusual phenomenon of black enslavers. The book received widespread critical acclaim for its innovative storytelling, richly drawn ...
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever. [...] Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole ...