China Rich Girlfriend is Kevin Kwan's sequel to his extremely successful debut novel, Crazy Rich Asians. That novel was about a Singapore family of extreme ridiculous wealth (picture some staff member at a hotel being rude to you and then you buying the hotel just to fire them. That kind of wealth). The novel name dropped luxury brands like crazy ( Read more... )

Very loosely based on Michael Ondaatje's own life, The Cat's Table is a ficticious description of a journey he made as a child from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to England. The narrator (also named Michael) is an adult, reflecting on a three week period of time that took place in 1954 when he was eleven years old and as such the bulk of the novel is ( Read more... )

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson.

( The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It )