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Tuesdays with Morrie Summary
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom 1997 210 pages
4.19
1.1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Classics
The Essential Tao Summary
The Essential Tao
by Thomas Cleary 1991 168 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Taoism
All Quiet on the Western Front Summary
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque 1928 296 pages
4.09
400k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
War
Classics
A Confederacy of Dunces Summary
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole 1980 394 pages
3.89
200k+ ratings
Humor
Literature
Comedy
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages
3.78
6k+ ratings
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
Tao Te Ching Summary
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu 107 pages
4.30
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Spirituality
Catch-22 Summary
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller 1961 453 pages
3.99
800k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
A Book of Five Rings Summary
A Book of Five Rings
The Classic Guide to Strategy
by Miyamoto Musashi 1645 192 pages
3.96
57k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Book of Disquiet Summary
The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa 1982 544 pages
4.40
34k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Philosophy
The Age of Innocence Summary
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Romance
Lord of the Flies Summary
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding 1954 182 pages
3.70
3M+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
School
A Man Without a Country Summary
A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2005 145 pages
4.09
47k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Ender’s Game Summary
Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card 1985 324 pages
4.31
1.4M+ ratings
Science Fiction
Young Adult
Fantasy
Atlas Shrugged Summary
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand 1957 1168 pages
3.69
300k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Politics
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now Summary
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
by Maya Angelou 1993 144 pages
4.29
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
The Conquest of Happiness Summary
The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell 1930 183 pages
4.02
15k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Letters from a Stoic Summary
Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca 254 pages
4.34
49k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
100k+ ratings
Classics
Essays
Race
Thousand Cranes Summary
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata 1952 147 pages
3.71
14k+ ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I Summary
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 534 pages
4.21
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
The Feminine Mystique Summary
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan 1963 562 pages
3.87
29k+ ratings
Feminism
Classics
History
Discourses and Selected Writings Summary
Discourses and Selected Writings
by Epictetus 276 pages
4.42
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
Quarto de Despejo Summary
Quarto de Despejo
Diário de Uma Favelada
by Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 199 pages
4.47
8k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Brazil
Toward a Psychology of Being Summary
Toward a Psychology of Being
by Abraham H. Maslow 1961 274 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
On Writing Summary
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Writing
Classics
Literature
Nobody Knows My Name Summary
Nobody Knows My Name
by James Baldwin 1961 242 pages
4.37
4k+ ratings
Essays
Race
Classics
The Essential Rumi Summary
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1273 416 pages
4.40
49k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Spirituality
Give War and Peace a Chance Summary
Give War and Peace a Chance
Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Books About Books
Literary Criticism
Literature
The Elements of Style Summary
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. 1918 105 pages
4.18
85k+ ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
On Love and Loneliness Summary
On Love and Loneliness
by J. Krishnamurti 1994 155 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Psychology
The Go-Getter Summary
The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne 1920 68 pages
4.15
9k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
The Manual Summary
The Manual
A Philosopher's Guide to Life
by Epictetus 1978 70 pages
4.38
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Classics
Meditations Summary
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages
4.28
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Self Help
The Education of Cyrus Summary
The Education of Cyrus
by Xenophon 320 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
Chanakya Neeti Summary
Chanakya Neeti
by Ashwini Parashar 2009 128 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Self Help
Listen, Little Man! Summary
Listen, Little Man!
by Wilhelm Reich 1946 144 pages
3.97
8k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
A Calendar of Wisdom Summary
A Calendar of Wisdom
Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
by Leo Tolstoy 1906 384 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
Crystallizing Public Opinion Summary
Crystallizing Public Opinion
by Edward L. Bernays 1923 218 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
The Art of War/The Art of Warfare Summary
The Art of War/The Art of Warfare
by Sun Tzu 2002 143 pages
4.14
4k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
History
Meditations Summary
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages
4.28
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Self Help
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy Summary
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
Curiouser And Curiouser
by William Irwin 2009 211 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Literary Criticism
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings Summary
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 544 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Well-Educated Mind Summary
The Well-Educated Mind
A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
by Susan Wise Bauer 2003 432 pages
3.99
3k+ ratings
Books About Books
Reference
Self Help
Silent Spring Summary
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson 1962 378 pages
4.05
51k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Summary
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig 1974 540 pages
3.78
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Spirituality
Just So Summary
Just So
Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe
by Alan W. Watts 2020 216 pages
4.24
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
How to Grow Old Summary
How to Grow Old
Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 217 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Heart of a Woman Summary
The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou 1981 288 pages
4.23
24k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Hagakure Summary
Hagakure
The Book of the Samurai
by Yamamoto Tsunetomo 1716 192 pages
4.00
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
Japan
History
50 Economics Classics Summary
50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
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