Gone Girl took the world by storm in 2012 with its interesting, riveting, and thrilling plot about a married couple named Nick and Amy, whose marriage gone terribly wrong when Amy mysteriously disappears. The book also landed a film adaptation in 2014 starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

An autobiographical book, I Am Malala, is an inspiring story that tells the remarkable tale of Malala and her family in a war-torn city in northern Pakistan that was taken over by the Taliban. The story focuses on Malala's activism where she fights for girl's education and how she miraculously survived a gunshot in the head.

This novel tells the magic of falling in love for the first time. A feel-good young adult romance novel, To All the Boys I've Loved Before is the first book of a three-part series. It narrates the story of Korean-American Lara Jean Covey whose love letters were sent out by her younger sister to all the boys she had crushes on growing up. A movie adaptation was also released on Netflix in 2018.

Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman is the first novel she wrote before the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill A Mockingbird. Published after 55 years, the book delves about wisdom, humanity, passion, and humour that centers on the story of Jean Louise Finch and her aging father Atticus, set amidst the backdrop of civil rights tension and political turmoil.

A literary train to freedom, Colson Whitehead's novel Underground Railroad, is a harrowing tale about the injustices towards African-Americans and immigrants and tells the story of two slaves, Cora and Caesar, during the 19th century in the southeastern United States and their bid for freedom by following the Underground Railroad. The book garnered several notable prizes under its belt, such as the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and was listed for The 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Thomas's debut novel tackles Black Lives Matter and the difficulties and challenges faced by black Americans. The book is an expanded form of her college reaction paper about the shooting of Oscar Grant. It tells the story of a young black girl named Starr Carter, who struggles with racism, activism, and police brutality after witnessing her friend being shot and killed by a white police officer.

Former United States of America first lady, Michelle Obama's memoir titled Becoming, details her childhood on the South Side of Chicago, and chronicles the experiences that have shaped her as a woman, mother, and wife. Honest and witty, Obama, is a woman of soul and substance that defies all expectations and inspires others to do the same.

“I want you to panic…I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.” No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference, is a collection of speeches about global warming and climate crisis by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The book is a compilation of her speeches at international summits such as the United Nations General Assembly, World Economic Forum, and more.