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Cathedral Summary
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages
4.24
40k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Government Gangsters Summary
Government Gangsters
The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
by Kash Patel 2023 320 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Government
Franny and Zoey Summary
Franny and Zoey
by J.D. Salinger 1957
3.96
200k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Wait Until Spring, Bandini Summary
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
by John Fante 1938 266 pages
4.10
14k+ ratings
Classics
Novels
American
Sometimes a Great Notion Summary
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages
4.26
24k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Revolutionary Road Summary
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates 1961 355 pages
3.93
94k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Book Club
First Principles Summary
First Principles
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
by Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 pages
4.06
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Christ in Concrete Summary
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
American
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense Summary
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages
4.17
19k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
The Liberal Tradition in America Summary
The Liberal Tradition in America
by Louis Hartz 1955 348 pages
3.63
158 ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Classics
American
Novels
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.58
16k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Rogue State Summary
Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum 2000 393 pages
3.97
500+ ratings
Politics
History
The United States Of America
The Beautiful and Damned Summary
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages
3.73
65k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
God Hates Us All Summary
God Hates Us All
by Hank Moody 2009 200 pages
3.46
4k+ ratings
Contemporary
Humor
Roman
Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages
3.75
19k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Pleasures of the Damned Summary
The Pleasures of the Damned
by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages
4.35
7k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Short Stories
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.75
7k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
The Age of Entitlement Summary
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Cultural
The Lost Continent Summary
The Lost Continent
Travels in Small-Town America
by Bill Bryson 1989 299 pages
3.81
65k+ ratings
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.61
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
Devil's Game Summary
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 pages
3.99
272 ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
Choke Summary
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk 2001 293 pages
3.71
200k+ ratings
Contemporary
Humor
Novels
The Republic for Which It Stands Summary
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by Richard White 2017 962 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Daisy Miller Summary
Daisy Miller
by Henry James 1879 164 pages
3.37
38k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Coming China Wars Summary
The Coming China Wars
Where They Will Be Fought And How They Can Be Won
by Peter Navarro 2006 263 pages
3.32
222 ratings
China
Politics
History
This Side of Paradise Summary
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 pages
3.63
80k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
A View from the Bridge Summary
A View from the Bridge
A Play in Two Acts
by Arthur Miller 1955 96 pages
3.71
18k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
We Are the Change We Seek Summary
We Are the Change We Seek
The Speeches of Barack Obama
by E.J. Dionne Jr. 2017 369 pages
4.35
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Why Americans Hate Politics Summary
Why Americans Hate Politics
by E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 589 pages
3.88
219 ratings
Politics
Political Science
American
The Facts Summary
The Facts
A Novelist's Autobiography
by Philip Roth 1988 208 pages
3.70
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Covert Regime Change Summary
Covert Regime Change
America's Secret Cold War
by Lindsey A. O'Rourke 2018 330 pages
4.14
85 ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll 2012 685 pages
4.00
4k+ ratings
Business
History
Politics
The Case for Trump Summary
The Case for Trump
by Victor Davis Hanson 2019 400 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals Summary
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
by William James 1958 272 pages
3.89
167 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Education
No Democracy Lasts Forever Summary
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States
by Erwin Chemerinsky 2024 240 pages
3.94
323 ratings
Politics
History
Law
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 505 pages
4.18
54k+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Short Stories
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller 1941 250 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
Liberty and Tyranny Summary
Liberty and Tyranny
A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin 2004 245 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
National Security Cinema Summary
National Security Cinema
The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood
by Matthew Alford 2017 264 pages
3.81
112 ratings
Politics
History
Film
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
12k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Heroes And Villains Summary
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
by Steven Gaines 1986 416 pages
3.85
500+ ratings
Music
Biography
History
Un-Trumping America Summary
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
by Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Current Affairs
The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Summary
The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 1141 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
The Freelance Content Marketing Writer Summary
The Freelance Content Marketing Writer
Find your perfect clients, Make tons of money and Build a business you love
by Jennifer Goforth Gregory 2018 274 pages
4.54
167 ratings
Writing
Business
American
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952 324 pages
3.95
243 ratings
History
American History
Economics
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings Summary
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 504 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
by Eve Babitz 2019 360 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Classics
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 Summary
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 pages
4.19
455 ratings
History
American History
Biography
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