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by Paulo Coelho 1990 264 pages

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

Japanese Literature

Rendezvous with Rama Summary

Rendezvous with Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke 1973 243 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Summary

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 326 pages

Historical Fiction

To the Lighthouse Summary

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages

Five Point Someone Summary

Five Point Someone

What Not to Do at IIT

by Chetan Bhagat 2004 267 pages

Indian Literature

Sex and Rage Summary

by Eve Babitz 1979 256 pages

The Namesake Summary

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 pages

Literary Fiction

Saturday Summary

by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages

Literary Fiction

Life for Sale Summary

by Yukio Mishima 1968 192 pages

Japanese Literature

The Clown Summary

by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages

German Literature

by Anthony Burgess 1978 240 pages

Science Fiction

The Zahir Summary

by Paulo Coelho 2005 336 pages

Freedom Summary

by Jonathan Franzen 2010 562 pages

Literary Fiction

Gulliver’s Travels Summary

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages

Dogeaters Summary

by Jessica Hagedorn 1990 272 pages

Historical Fiction

Thank You for Smoking Summary

Thank You for Smoking

by Christopher Buckley 1994 272 pages

And the Mountains Echoed Summary

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini 2012 404 pages

Historical Fiction

So Long, See You Tomorrow Summary

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell 1980 135 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

Mrs. Dalloway Summary

by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages

A Clockwork Orange Summary

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess 1962 192 pages

Science Fiction

Song of Solomon Summary

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

Winter of the World Summary

Winter of the World

by Ken Follett 2012 940 pages

Historical Fiction

The Spinoza Problem Summary

The Spinoza Problem

by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages

Historical Fiction

Identity Summary

by Milan Kundera 1997 176 pages

Czech Literature

The Counterfeiters Summary

The Counterfeiters

by André Gide 1925 451 pages

French Literature

Fall of Giants Summary

by Ken Follett 2010 985 pages

Historical Fiction

by Natsume Sōseki 1914 256 pages

Japanese Literature

God Hates Us All Summary

God Hates Us All

by Hank Moody 2009 200 pages

Literary Fiction

Dead Souls Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages

Russian Literature

Too Loud a Solitude Summary

Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages

Czech Literature

The Flea Palace Summary

The Flea Palace

by Elif Shafak 2002 448 pages

Turkish Literature

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages

Visitation Summary

by Jenny Erpenbeck 2008 160 pages

Historical Fiction

German Literature

by J.G. Ballard 1973 224 pages

Science Fiction

The Sicilian Summary

by Mario Puzo 1984 416 pages

Água Viva Summary

by Clarice Lispector 1973 88 pages

The First Man Summary

by Albert Camus 1994 359 pages

Wait Until Spring, Bandini Summary

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante 1938 266 pages

On the Road Summary

by Jack Kerouac 1957 307 pages

The Border Summary

by Don Winslow 2019 768 pages

Devil on the Cross Summary

Devil on the Cross

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1980 256 pages

Franny and Zooey Summary

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

The Lost Letters of Aisling Summary

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2024 302 pages

Historical Fiction

Family of Origin Summary

Family of Origin

by C.J. Hauser 2019 287 pages

Literary Fiction

The Collector Summary

by John Fowles 1963 283 pages

Great Expectations Summary

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages

Historical Fiction

Outline Summary

by Rachel Cusk 2014 249 pages

Literary Fiction

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Summary

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 233 pages

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