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Literature Book Summaries

Frankenstein Summary
Frankenstein
The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 260 pages
3.88
1.7M+ ratings
Horror
Science Fiction
Gothic
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.98
24k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Novels
Bulfinch's Mythology Summary
Bulfinch's Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages
4.14
12k+ ratings
Mythology
Classics
Fantasy
Journey to the End of the Night Summary
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 453 pages
4.19
45k+ ratings
France
Literature
French Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969 275 pages
4.10
1.4M+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Historical Fiction
Oblomov Summary
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages
4.13
40k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Medea Summary
Medea
by Euripides 59 pages
3.94
82k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Mythology
Doctor Zhivago Summary
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Russia
Russian Literature
The Bell Jar Summary
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath 1963 294 pages
4.06
1M+ ratings
Feminism
Mental Health
Psychology
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages
4.09
36k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Japanese Literature
Beloved Summary
Beloved
by Toni Morrison 1987 325 pages
3.97
400k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
200k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
The Corrections Summary
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen 2001 653 pages
3.84
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Literary Fiction
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Summary
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel García Márquez 2003 128 pages
3.97
200k+ ratings
Classics
Magical Realism
School
The Overcoat Summary
The Overcoat
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages
4.15
47k+ ratings
Short Stories
Russia
Russian Literature
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Gilead Summary
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson 2004 247 pages
3.85
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Literary Fiction
For Whom the Bell Tolls Summary
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages
3.98
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.60
92k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages
3.96
52k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Literature
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 438 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Oil! Summary
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair 1926 528 pages
3.74
6k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Native Son Summary
Native Son
by Richard Wright 1940 504 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Race
The Museum of Innocence Summary
The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk 2008 536 pages
3.78
35k+ ratings
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Romance
Fight Club Summary
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk 1996 218 pages
4.18
600k+ ratings
Classics
Thriller
Novels
Women in Love Summary
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence 1920 416 pages
3.66
32k+ ratings
Literature
Classics
Romance
The Black Book Summary
The Black Book
by Orhan Pamuk 1990 466 pages
3.92
12k+ ratings
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Mystery
Nausea Summary
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1938 178 pages
3.94
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Literature
The Maniac Summary
The Maniac
by Benjamín Labatut 2023 368 pages
4.34
18k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Philosophy
Literary Fiction
The Feast of the Goat Summary
The Feast of the Goat
by Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 475 pages
4.34
38k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Spanish Literature
Novels
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 139 pages
3.83
600k+ ratings
Horror
Gothic
Mystery
Franny and Zooey Summary
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages
3.96
200k+ ratings
Short Stories
Literature
Classics
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Summary
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard 2007 185 pages
3.43
4k+ ratings
Books About Books
Philosophy
Essays
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.15
11k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
How Fiction Works Summary
How Fiction Works
by James Wood 2008 265 pages
3.99
7k+ ratings
Writing
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
The Lonely Voice Summary
The Lonely Voice
A Study of the Short Story
by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Writing
Short Stories
Literary Criticism
Aspects of the Novel Summary
Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster 1927 192 pages
3.81
4k+ ratings
Writing
Literary Criticism
Essays
The Human Stain Summary
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth 2000 361 pages
3.92
43k+ ratings
Literature
Novels
American
Love Is a Dog from Hell Summary
Love Is a Dog from Hell
by Charles Bukowski 1977 312 pages
3.97
37k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Água Viva Summary
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector 1973 88 pages
4.28
16k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Samarkand Summary
Samarkand
by Amin Maalouf 1988 304 pages
4.24
29k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Literature
Of Human Bondage Summary
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham 1915 684 pages
4.15
59k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Wild Duck Summary
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages
3.80
10k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
Flatland Summary
Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 96 pages
3.81
74k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Mathematics
The White Castle Summary
The White Castle
by Orhan Pamuk 1985 145 pages
3.48
16k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Turkish Literature
Turkish
The Pearl Summary
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck 1947 96 pages
3.55
200k+ ratings
Literature
School
Historical Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible Summary
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver 1998 546 pages
4.10
700k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Africa
Classics
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Summary
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose Bierce 1890 36 pages
4.02
25k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Horror
A Passage to India Summary
A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster 1924 376 pages
3.68
83k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Literature
The Man Who Counted Summary
The Man Who Counted
A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages
4.11
6k+ ratings
Mathematics
Classics
Novels
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