Category Archives: Fiction

One day, the townspeople of Oran notice that rats are dying everywhere; the plague soon follows and Oran is suddenly isolated from the world, and the characters grapple with the startling realization that something awful is just beginning.

A fascinating mystery about wine, World War II, and generations of haunting family secrets.

How does capitalism force people to evaluate themselves? What will people sacrifice—family, dignity, heritage—to appease whatever capitalism demands of us?

One of the most impactful novels in US history—its descriptions of the meatpacking industry’s disgusting sanitary conditions resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Elwood Curtis, a black boy in the 1960s, is wrongly sentenced to a horrifying juvenile center, where he is determined to remember that he is worthy.

Orson Scott Card draws mesmerizing lines between history and science fiction as he wonders: What if someone could go back in time and change Christopher Columbus’s mind?

Lucia Berlin’s sometimes melancholy, sometimes spirited, and always beautiful collection of short stories.

This slim collection of short stories is brutal, startling, and reveals what people feel deep down when they’re at their most desperate.