Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

On a remote, icy planet, the solder known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren-a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of sodiers in the service of the Radch, the empire ( Read more... )

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth gained her midwife training in the 1950s among an Anglican order of nuns dedicated to ensuring safer childbirth for the poor living amid the Docklands slums on the East End of London. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies-from the plucky, warmhearted ( Read more... )

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

In many ways, R is your average zombie: He prefers to speak in grunts and moans; his flesh is starting to decompose; and he has unquenchable thirst for human brains. Juicy, delectable brains. But in other ways, R is different: Though he cannot remember who he was before, he collects vinyl records; his speech is ( Read more... )

A Short Autobiography by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most autobiographies are written from the perspective of an author looking back on a long, hopefully fruitful career. However, A Short Autobiography is an unfinished and posthumous work: although Fitzgerald approached his editor, Maxwell Perkins, twice in the last decade of his life to publish a ( Read more... )

The Sirantha Jax series by Ann Aguirre: Grimspace, Wanderlust, and Doubleblind


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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

In the Republic of Gilead, the Handmaid Offred has only one purpose in society:  to get with child.  With the Wife holding her hands, she must lie down and hope that the Commander gets her pregnant-or else she’ll get sent to the Colonies, where she will work until she dies.  Offred isn’t allowed to go out ( Read more... )

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

In an alternate reality, Japan is no longer Japan but the Republic of Greater East Asia.  As part of its oppressive totalitarian regime, every year groups of ninth grade students are forced to participate in The Program-a brutal, dog-eat-dog competition there can only be one winner.  After witnessing the murder of ( Read more... )