We hope your first weeks back at school, whether in person or virtual, are as safe and stress-free as possible. This month, we’re excited to share 32 new LitCharts guides, including many that have been requested often by our readers, such as How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Birches by Robert Frost, and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi.
The new Literature Guides we published in August
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer
- Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
- Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
- Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
The new Poetry Guides we published in August
- Birches by Robert Frost
- The Black Man’s Burden by H. T. Johnson
- The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver
- The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Extract from The Prelude (Boat Stealing) by William Wordsworth
- From the Dark Tower by Countee Cullen
- Gretel in Darkness by Louise Glück
- I think of thee (Sonnet 29) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
- One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
- The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
- The Sea Eats the Land at Home by Kofi Awoonor
- They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt
- We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
See you next month with more new releases!