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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2001 437 pages

A Confederacy of Dunces Summary

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole 1987 405 pages

Warrior of the Light Summary

Warrior of the Light

by Paulo Coelho 2004 160 pages

Catch-22 Summary

by Joseph Heller 1996 464 pages

Historical Fiction

The Alchemist Summary

by Paulo Coelho 2008 197 pages

Saturday Summary

by Ian McEwan 2006 304 pages

Literary Fiction

British Literature

Atlas Shrugged Summary

by Ayn Rand 1999 1192 pages

The Pilgrimage Summary

by Paulo Coelho 2021 288 pages

The Fall Summary

by Albert Camus 1991 147 pages

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Summary

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

by Paulo Coelho 2021 180 pages

Pay It Forward Summary

by Catherine Ryan Hyde 1999 320 pages

The Forty Rules of Love Summary

The Forty Rules of Love

by Elif Shafak 2011 288 pages

Historical Fiction

The Glass Bead Game Summary

The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse 2022 713 pages

American Psycho Summary

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis 1991 399 pages

by George Orwell 2014 368 pages

Science Fiction

The Grapes of Wrath Summary

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck 2014 496 pages

Historical Fiction

Doctor Faustus Summary

by Thomas Mann 1947 535 pages

German Literature

Steppenwolf Summary

by Hermann Hesse 1999 256 pages

German Literature

Lord Jim Summary

by Joseph Conrad 2000 455 pages

The Hobbit Summary

by J.R.R. Tolkien

East of Eden Summary

by John Steinbeck 2002 620 pages

Historical Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Summary

by Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction

The Kite Runner Summary

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini 2003 371 pages

Historical Fiction

by Frank Herbert 2019 688 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Les Miserables Summary

by Victor Hugo 2018 1376 pages

Historical Fiction

Animal Farm Summary

by George Orwell 1996 140 pages

Crime and Punishment Summary

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Literature

The Stranger Summary

by Albert Camus

The Plague Summary

by Albert Camus

The Idiot Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2003 720 pages

Russian Literature

by Hernan Diaz 2022 402 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

The Brothers Karamazov Summary

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Literature

No Longer Human Summary

No Longer Human

by Osamu Dazai

Japanese Literature

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1994 136 pages

Russian Literature

Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville 2002 720 pages

Pride and Prejudice Summary

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Historical Fiction

A Clockwork Orange Summary

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess 2019 240 pages

Science Fiction

The Road Summary

by Cormac McCarthy 2006 241 pages

Science Fiction

Post Apocalyptic

White Nights Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Summary

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson 2013 204 pages

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Summary

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera 2004 306 pages

The Godfather Summary

by Mario Puzo

Shantaram Summary

by Gregory David Roberts 2004 936 pages

Historical Fiction

Anna Karenina Summary

by Leo Tolstoy

Historical Fiction

2 States Summary

The Story of My Marriage

by Chetan Bhagat 2009 269 pages

Indian Literature

The Great Gatsby Summary

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Historical Fiction

Brave New World Summary

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley 1998 268 pages

Science Fiction

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Summary

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Literature

Ulysses Summary

by James Joyce

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