Written by American author Scott Westerfeld, Uglies is a young adult science-fiction series set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is considered an “Ugly,” but then turned “Pretty” by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16. The story follows Tally Youngblood, a woman who rebels against society’s enforced conformity…
Vampire Academy is a series of young adult paranormal romance novels by American author Richelle Mead. There are two races of vampires: One, the Moroi, are alive and wield elemental magical. The other, the Strigoi, are undead and evil-feeding on the innocent to survive. The story follows Rose Hathaway–a half-vampire with poor impulse control–who is…
Coming from Phillip Margolin (author of the Amanda Jaffe series), the Robin Lockwood series is a legal procedural thriller series full of twisty cases. The story is about Robin Lockwood. She’s a former MMA fighter and, at the beginning of the series, is a young lawyer who has just left a clerkship at the Oregon…
This is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card? Everything started with the novelette “Ender’s Game,” which was later expanded into the novel of the same title to use the Ender character in another novel. Now the Enderverse is composed of the Ender Series, the Shadow Saga, and the Formic Wars series….
In a famous galaxy… What Star Wars: The High Republic is about? Launched in January 2021, Star Wars: The High Republic is an ongoing multimedia project with the mission to tell a cohesive story taking place during the High Republic. Charles Soule, Justina Ireland, Cavan Scott, Daniel José Older, and Claudia Gray are the principal…
As I was saying, this series was written by Bernard Cornwell. It chronicles the life of Richard Sharpe in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe was born in poverty. He joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of…
Written by American author Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Lux Universe is a young-adult paranormal fantasy franchise comprised of three series (Lux, Arum, and Origin) and three companion books. The story begins with Katy Swartz, a young woman who moves from Florida to West Virginia right before her senior year and discovers a new hot but…
Written by retired medical researcher and professor Patrick Taylor, this historical series chronicles the lives of the doctors of Ballybucklebo, a fictional village in rural Northern Ireland. The Irish Country series follows novice doctor Barry Laverty as he begins his assistantship at the practice of Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly. The books explore the present and…
A detective series with a twist, The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries is written by American writer Rita Mae Brown with the help of “Sneaky Pie Brown,” her cat. The story takes us to Crozet, Virginia, where Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is the thirty-something post-mistress. She catches killers with the help of her irrepressible crime-solving tiger cat,…
All Creatures Great and Small is a book series by James Alfred Wight under the pen name James Herriot focusing on his adventures as a veterinary surgeon in the Yorkshire Dales, in the fictional town of Darrowby, based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham. Herriot works with fellow veterinary surgeons Siegfried and…
Coming from a former British national newspaper journalist, Rory Clements (author of the Tom Wilde series), the John Shakespeare thrillers are historical crime novels. Set during the Elizabethan era, the series follows John Shakespeare who is described as an “intrepid private detective and brother to a rising young playwright”. As he investigates murder mysteries, John…
In the vein of Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin (from 1841 short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is an exceptional detective who can be can be dispassionate and cold, but always willing to face a new challenging mystery, ready to use his extremely logical mind,…
