The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
This past week saw the nominations for the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Finalists. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association announced a shortlist of six novels for work published in 2024.
South Africa is multiracial, multilingual and multicultural and this is reflected in the fantastic literature emanating from the country. Enjoy 6 South African Books Everyone Should Read!
This past week saw the release of the International Booker Prize 2025 Longlist. Notable this year was that all the nominations were for authors making their first appearance on a Booker Prize List.
When thousands are being executed, would you risk your life to save a stranger? That’s the choice faced by Dr. Ledru in Solange by Alexandre Dumas.
One of America’s most famous authors led a colorful life! Test your knowledge of Ernest Hemingway’s life and work with our quiz
Faith by W. Somerset Maugham was written in 1899. It is part of his Orientations Short Story Collection.
Featuring the best fiction from all over the continent of Africa, here is Quizlit’s 13 Best African Books
The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf appears in the short story collection Monday or Tuesday and was first published in 1921.
Quizlit’s Book of the Month April 2025 is Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami. Just longlisted for the International Booker Prize, this is a speculative fiction masterpiece that envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of the future of humanity
Published in 1834, Kirdjali by Alexander Pushkin tells the tale of the soldier Kirdjali and his swashbuckling adventures.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway by Baroness Orczy was originally published in 1901. When a young woman is poisoned on a London subway train, the police searching for her killer appear to be on the wrong track.
The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1842. It describes how Russian bureaucracy turns everyone into a ghost of each other.
