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Literature Book Summaries

Survivor Summary
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk 1999 289 pages
3.93
122.0K ratings
Contemporary
Thriller
Novels
The Zahir Summary
The Zahir
by Paulo Coelho 2005 336 pages
3.58
81.4K ratings
Novels
Philosophy
Contemporary
The Sound and the Fury Summary
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner 1929 366 pages
3.86
190.5K ratings
Literature
Classics
Novels
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka 2023 704 pages
4.31
347 ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Memoir
The Clown Summary
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages
3.93
30.9K ratings
German Literature
Classics
Novels
The Lords of Discipline Summary
The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy 1980 512 pages
4.34
29.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Military Fiction
Southern
A Moveable Feast Summary
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 pages
4.02
160.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
France
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare 1595 298 pages
3.94
563.5K ratings
Plays
Fantasy
School
The Wild Duck Summary
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages
3.80
10.8K ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages
3.78
6.7K ratings
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
The Scarlet Letter Summary
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 279 pages
3.44
896.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
School
Literature
The Overcoat Summary
The Overcoat
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages
4.15
48.2K ratings
Short Stories
Russia
Russian Literature
Devil on the Cross Summary
Devil on the Cross
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1980 256 pages
3.93
2.0K ratings
Africa
Classics
Kenya
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Summary
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima 1963 181 pages
3.84
48.1K ratings
Japan
Classics
Japanese Literature
Père Goriot Summary
Père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac 1835 384 pages
3.85
64.2K ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
We Summary
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages
3.88
106.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Dystopia
1985 Summary
1985
by Anthony Burgess 1978 240 pages
3.47
1.5K ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Classics
The Three Musketeers Summary
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas 1844 431 pages
4.10
338.2K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Dialogues and Essays Summary
Dialogues and Essays
by Seneca 304 pages
4.31
1.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle Summary
The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
by Aristotle 336 pages
4.00
2.4K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Poetry
The Remains of the Day Summary
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 258 pages
4.14
337.3K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Literary Fiction
Love in the Time of Cholera Summary
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez 1985 348 pages
3.94
530.9K ratings
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Literature
Saturday Summary
Saturday
by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages
3.64
72.2K ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Book Club
The Idiot Summary
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 667 pages
4.21
203.8K ratings
Russia
Russian Literature
Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous 1201 72 pages
3.75
112.8K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
The Maniac Summary
The Maniac
by Benjamín Labatut 2023 368 pages
4.34
20.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Philosophy
Literary Fiction
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.81
203.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Life for Sale Summary
Life for Sale
by Yukio Mishima 1968 192 pages
3.71
12.6K ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1884 327 pages
3.83
1.3M ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages
4.23
4.1K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Russia
Poetics Summary
Poetics
by Aristotle 144 pages
3.83
28.1K ratings
Philosophy
Poetry
Writing
The Namesake Summary
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 pages
4.02
278.4K ratings
Book Club
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages
4.09
37.2K ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Japanese Literature
Mrs. Dalloway Summary
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages
3.78
334.6K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages
3.69
182.3K ratings
Contemporary
Book Club
Literature
The Spinoza Problem Summary
The Spinoza Problem
by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages
4.26
17.5K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Historical Fiction
Dead Souls Summary
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages
3.98
92.0K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages
3.92
6.5K ratings
Short Stories
Poetry
Classics
Sense and Sensibility Summary
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen 1811 409 pages
4.09
1.3M ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Summary
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll 1871 239 pages
4.06
592.4K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Childrens
On Writing Summary
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages
4.03
4.6K ratings
Writing
Classics
Literature
Água Viva Summary
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector 1973 88 pages
4.27
17.4K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Freedom Summary
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen 2010 562 pages
3.79
172.6K ratings
Book Club
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Anna Karenina Fix Summary
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages
3.96
1.6K ratings
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
J.R.R. Tolkien Summary
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages
4.05
16.1K ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
291.6K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
The Age of Innocence Summary
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages
3.97
187.5K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Romance
The Man in the Iron Mask Summary
The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas 1847 470 pages
3.99
66.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Dogeaters Summary
Dogeaters
by Jessica Hagedorn 1990 272 pages
3.61
3.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Literature
The First Man Summary
The First Man
by Albert Camus 1994 359 pages
3.97
11.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
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