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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Summary
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace 1998 368 pages
4.15
49k+ ratings
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning
And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Ob
by Larry Smith 2009 242 pages
3.90
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Summary
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Uncommon Thoughts
by Robert Fulghum 2004 221 pages
4
23k+ ratings
Humor
Self Help
Philosophy
This Is Water Summary
This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
by David Foster Wallace 2009 137 pages
4.48
33k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Self Help
Creatures of a Day Summary
Creatures of a Day
And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
by Irvin D. Yalom 2015 224 pages
4.22
11k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Short Stories
A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary
A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul
More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit
by Jack Canfield 2012 355 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Inspirational
Self Help
Short Stories
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II Summary
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
More Stories of Life, Love and Learning
by Jack Canfield 2012 371 pages
3.98
7k+ ratings
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
Chicken Soup for the Soul - 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle The Spirit Summary
Chicken Soup for the Soul - 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle The Spirit
by Mark Victor Hansen Jack Canfield 1995 352 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Short Stories
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
Stories
by Haruki Murakami 2017 240 pages
3.75
100k+ ratings
Short Stories
Japan
Japanese Literature
Modern Love, Revised and Updated Summary
Modern Love, Revised and Updated
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
by Daniel Jones 2019 304 pages
4.2
12k+ ratings
Romance
Essays
Short Stories
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics)
by Eve Babitz 2019 424 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2 Summary
Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2
8 More Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! (Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners) (Spanish Edition)
by Olly Richards 2015 236 pages
4.33
100+ ratings
Spanish Literature
Language
Short Stories
Well-Read Black Girl Summary
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim 2018 272 pages
4.37
6k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Race
AI 2041 Summary
AI 2041
Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee 2021 452 pages
3.86
3k+ ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Technology
These Precious Days Summary
These Precious Days
Essays
by Ann Patchett 2021 331 pages
4.43
38k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Think Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude
by Jack Canfield 2010 435 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Short Stories
Inciting Joy Summary
Inciting Joy
Essays
by Ross Gay 2022 336 pages
4.16
4k+ ratings
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
O's Little Book of Love & Friendship (O’s Little Books/Guides 3) Summary
O's Little Book of Love & Friendship (O’s Little Books/Guides 3)
by The Oprah Magazine O 2016 192 pages
3.61
100+ ratings
Short Stories
Inspirational
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship Summary
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship
by Jack Canfield
4.05
2k+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Short Stories
Consider the Lobster Summary
Consider the Lobster
And Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 468 pages
4.19
50k+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Short Stories
The Book of (More) Delights Summary
The Book of (More) Delights
by Ross Gay 2023 336 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
Taking Flight Summary
Taking Flight
A Book of Story Meditations
by Anthony De Mello 1990 192 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Spirituality
Religion
Philosophy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
And Other Tales of Terror
by Robert Louis Stevenson 2003 224 pages
3.92
100k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Gothic
The Metamorphosis Summary
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
3.88
1.2M+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Philosophy
The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy 2006 86 pages
4.13
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer 2003 504 pages
3.52
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
A Visit from the Goon Squad Summary
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan 2010 288 pages
3.70
200k+ ratings
Contemporary
Music
Short Stories
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
by Aesop 1998 96 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Childrens
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1966 832 pages
4.40
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Horror
how to play better tennis Summary
how to play better tennis
by william t. tilden 1962 144 pages
3.69
200k+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Short Stories
The Martian Chronicles Summary
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury 1984 192 pages
4.15
200k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Short Stories
Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Random Acts of Kindness: 101 Stories of Compassion and Paying It Forward
by Amy Newmark 2017 384 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
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