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The Pumpkin Spice Café Summary

The Pumpkin Spice Café

by Laurie Gilmore 2023 373 pages

Contemporary Romance

Honey & Spice Summary

by Bolu Babalola 2022 368 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Bodyguard Summary

by Katherine Center 2022 302 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Kind Worth Killing Summary

The Kind Worth Killing

by Peter Swanson 2015 320 pages

Psychological Thriller

The Life Impossible Summary

The Life Impossible

by Matt Haig 2024 324 pages

Magical Realism

Dead Poets Society Summary

Dead Poets Society

by N.H. Kleinbaum 1988 166 pages

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It Summary

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

by Elle Cosimano 2021 355 pages

Mystery Thriller

Less Than Zero Summary

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages

by Haruki Murakami 2009 944 pages

Magical Realism

It's Not Summer Without You Summary

It's Not Summer Without You

by Jenny Han 2010 275 pages

Funny You Should Ask Summary

Funny You Should Ask

by Elissa Sussman 2022 352 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Summary

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson 2005 480 pages

Blue Sisters Summary

by Coco Mellors 2024 342 pages

Literary Fiction

Keeping 13 Summary

by Chloe Walsh 2018 938 pages

Before I Go to Sleep Summary

Before I Go to Sleep

by S.J. Watson 2011 359 pages

Mystery Thriller

If We Were Villains Summary

If We Were Villains

by M.L. Rio 2017 354 pages

Mystery Thriller

Happiness Falls Summary

Happiness Falls

by Angie Kim 2023 387 pages

Mystery Thriller

The Inheritance Games Summary

The Inheritance Games

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2020 386 pages

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Summary

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie 2007 230 pages

Realistic Fiction

Martyr! Summary

by Kaveh Akbar 2024 331 pages

Literary Fiction

When We Believed in Mermaids Summary

When We Believed in Mermaids

by Barbara O'Neal 2019 348 pages

Everything Sad Is Untrue Summary

Everything Sad Is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 pages

Beautiful Disaster Summary

Beautiful Disaster

by Jamie McGuire 2011 432 pages

The Libyan Diversion Summary

The Libyan Diversion

by Joel C. Rosenberg 2023 480 pages

Christian Fiction

Lullaby Summary

by Chuck Palahniuk 2002 260 pages

Truly Madly Guilty Summary

Truly Madly Guilty

by Liane Moriarty 2016 432 pages

The Poet X Summary

by Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 368 pages

Anna and the French Kiss Summary

Anna and the French Kiss

by Stephanie Perkins 2010 372 pages

The Joy Luck Club Summary

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan 1989 288 pages

Historical Fiction

Better Than the Movies Summary

Better Than the Movies

by Lynn Painter 2021 356 pages

Rules of Negotiation Summary

Rules of Negotiation

by Inara Scott 2012 162 pages

Contemporary Romance

Fifty Shades Freed Summary

Fifty Shades Freed

by E.L. James 2012 579 pages

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Summary

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong 2019 246 pages

We Were the Mulvaneys Summary

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates 1996 454 pages

Literary Fiction

Hello Stranger Summary

by Katherine Center 2023 323 pages

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Summary

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk 2009 274 pages

Literary Fiction

Good Material Summary

by Dolly Alderton 2023 345 pages

Literary Fiction

Paper Princess Summary

by Erin Watt 2016 370 pages

Punk 57 Summary

by Penelope Douglas 2016 343 pages

Enemies To Lovers

Hunting Adeline Summary

Hunting Adeline

by H.D. Carlton 2022 702 pages

Brutal Prince Summary

by Sophie Lark 2020 376 pages

Enemies To Lovers

All Fours Summary

by Miranda July 2024 336 pages

Literary Fiction

The God of Small Things Summary

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy 1997 321 pages

Historical Fiction

by N.R. Walker 2017 164 pages

Love on the Brain Summary

Love on the Brain

by Ali Hazelwood 2022 368 pages

Enemies To Lovers

Contemporary Romance

Clap When You Land Summary

Clap When You Land

by Elizabeth Acevedo 2020 432 pages

Trading Up Summary

by Candace Bushnell 2003 320 pages

Overruled Summary

by Emma Chase 2015 290 pages

Contemporary Romance

Lola and the Boy Next Door Summary

Lola and the Boy Next Door

by Stephanie Perkins 2011 338 pages

You Are Here Summary

by David Nicholls 2024 368 pages

Literary Fiction

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