Oldies but Goodies
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is told through this character's perspective.
Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?
Suzanne Collins wrote this dystopian series featuring Katniss Everdeen.
What is The Hunger Games?
In Idyllwild, this quiet California mountain town becomes a backdrop for characters confronting their pasts and searching for peace.
What is Idyllwild?
In this West African–inspired romantasy by Tomi Adeyemi, Zélie Adebola discovers her magic and finds herself torn between duty, rebellion, and a prince she shouldn’t love.
What is Children of Blood and Bone?
This small Pacific Northwest town, is the main setting of the book, Twilight.
What is Forks?
This novel follows Elizabeth Bennet as she navigates love, marriage, and society in Regency England.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
This young protagonist of The Giver is selected to inherit the community’s memories, which forces him to confront the hidden truths about his seemingly perfect society.
Who is Jonas?
In Jacqueline Harpman’s All Who Have Ever Loved Me, the protagonist recounts her life and loves from this unusual location — after her own death.
What is heaven (or the afterlife)?
In Throne of Glass, this assassin is freed from a slave camp to compete for her freedom in a deadly contest at the glass castle.
Who is Celaena Sardothien (also known as Aelin Galathynius)?
This group of vampires, are a powerful and ancient coven of vampires in the series enforce laws and act as "royalty" of the vampire world.
What is The Volturi?
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is set in this African country.
What is Nigeria?
In The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus Waters gives Hazel Grace this symbolic item, which he never lights, explaining that “you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”
What is a cigarette?
In R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, June Hayward steals her deceased friend’s manuscript and publishes it under this racially ambiguous pseudonym.
What is Juniper Song?
In Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, Violet Sorrengail bonds to these two types of dragons.
What are black and feathertail (irrid) dragons?
This supernatural phenomenon where a werewolf finds its "soulmate".
What is imprinting?
This author won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple in 1983.
Who is Alice Walker?
The story of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi takes place in this fictional West African–inspired land filled with ancient gods and lost magic.
What is Orïsha?
In Big Swiss, Greta transcribes therapy sessions and becomes infatuated with a client she nicknames “Big Swiss,” leading to this type of morally complex relationship.
What is an affair (or inappropriate romantic relationship)?
Thea Guanzon is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Hurricane Wars series, that is inspired by Southeast Asian mythology specifically this mythology.
What is Philippine mythology?
The Black family belongs to the Quileute tribe, which is based in this location.
What is La Push?
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath uses the image of the bell jar itself to describe Esther Greenwood’s mental state. What does being “under the bell jar” represent for her?
What is feeling trapped and suffocated by depression and societal pressure?
In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita’s emotions magically infuse the food she prepares. After she bakes the wedding cake for Pedro and Rosaura, what is the powerful emotion she feels that causes all the guests to react with overwhelming sorrow and longing.
What is heartbreak (or longing)?
By the end of All Good People Here by Crime Junkie's Ashley Flowers, the story’s shocking twist forces readers to reconsider this assumption about guilt and innocence in true-crime stories.
What is that the “villain” isn’t always who you think it is?
These top three tropes are often found in Romantasy books.
What is "enemies to lovers", "fated mates", "forced proximity"?
In Breaking Dawn, Bella discovers she is pregnant after this many days of being married.
What is two weeks?