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A Suitable Boy Summary
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth 1993 1474 pages
4.11
50k+ ratings
India
Historical Fiction
Classics
The Invisible Man Summary
The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 1897 192 pages
3.63
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Horror
2001 Summary
2001
A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke 1968 297 pages
4.18
300k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Space
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages
4.09
21k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Summary
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
by Immanuel Kant 1764 124 pages
3.54
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Art
German Literature
Julius Caesar Summary
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare 1599 175 pages
3.71
200k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Shakespeare
Objectivism Summary
Objectivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Leonard Peikoff 1991 493 pages
3.77
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Hondo Summary
Hondo
by Louis L'Amour 1953 194 pages
4.06
14k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
Totalitarianism Summary
Totalitarianism
Part Three of the Origins of the Totalitarism
by Hannah Arendt 1968
4.18
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Riders of the Purple Sage Summary
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey 1912 320 pages
3.76
15k+ ratings
Westerns
Classics
Historical Fiction
The Origin of Species Summary
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin 1859 703 pages
4.01
100k+ ratings
Science
Classics
Biology
The Death of Virgil Summary
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch 1945 493 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
German Literature
The Vendor of Sweets Summary
The Vendor of Sweets
by R.K. Narayan 1967 144 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
India
Indian Literature
Classics
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Summary
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
by Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 pages
4.43
20k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
An Old-Fashioned Girl Summary
An Old-Fashioned Girl
by Louisa May Alcott 1870 288 pages
4.09
22k+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Ancient Philosophy Summary
Ancient Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
by Julia Annas 2001 133 pages
3.64
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Classics
The Adventures of Robin Hood Summary
The Adventures of Robin Hood
by Roger Lancelyn Green 1956 320 pages
4.07
14k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Middlemarch Summary
Middlemarch
by George Eliot 1872 912 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
بوستان سعدی Summary
بوستان سعدی
by Saadi 1257 196 pages
4.36
2k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Iran
The Essential Marcus Aurelius Summary
The Essential Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius 111 pages
4.40
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Summary
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume 1970 149 pages
3.95
200k+ ratings
Young Adult
Classics
Middle Grade
The Library of Babel Summary
The Library of Babel
by Jorge Luis Borges 1941 36 pages
4.30
12k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Philosophy
The Horse and His Boy Summary
The Horse and His Boy
by C.S. Lewis 1954 224 pages
3.91
300k+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Young Adult
The Federalist Papers Summary
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton 1788 592 pages
4.10
42k+ ratings
History
Politics
Classics
Caligula and Three Other Plays Summary
Caligula and Three Other Plays
by Albert Camus 1949 302 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
Philosophy
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke 1757 208 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Tres ratones ciegos (La ratonera) Summary
Tres ratones ciegos (La ratonera)
by Agatha Christie 1950 203 pages
3.79
20k+ ratings
Mystery
Agatha Christie
Short Stories
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.76
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
The Kalevala Summary
The Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot 1835 679 pages
4.05
6k+ ratings
Poetry
Mythology
Classics
Dante's Inferno Summary
Dante's Inferno
by Dante Alighieri 1321 102 pages
4.03
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Around the World in Eighty Days Summary
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne 1872 252 pages
3.95
200k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Science Fiction
Orthodoxy Summary
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton 1908 168 pages
4.20
42k+ ratings
Theology
Religion
Christian
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Volume II
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages
4.48
82k+ ratings
Classics
Mystery
Short Stories
Benito Cereno Summary
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages
3.53
10k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
School
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages
3.65
78k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Rojo y negro Summary
Rojo y negro
by Stendhal 1830 696 pages
3.86
84k+ ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary
Immersive
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville 1851 720 pages
3.57
600k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
The World According to Garp Summary
The World According to Garp
by John Irving 1978 610 pages
4.11
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Contemporary
The Heart of Darkness Summary
The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 131 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Summary
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
by August Wilson 1984 111 pages
4.00
4k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
Nervous Conditions Summary
Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga 1988 204 pages
4.04
23k+ ratings
Africa
Historical Fiction
Zimbabwe
Philosophy Summary
Philosophy
The Classics
by Nigel Warburton 2000 280 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theology
Dubliners Summary
Dubliners
by James Joyce 1914 352 pages
3.83
100k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Ireland
I Capture the Castle Summary
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith 1948 408 pages
3.98
100k+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
The Persian Boy Summary
The Persian Boy
by Mary Renault 1972 420 pages
4.18
11k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
LGBT
Socialism Summary
Socialism
Utopian and Scientific
by Friedrich Engels 1880 86 pages
4.26
9k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide 1925 467 pages
3.83
10k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
17k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Their Eyes Were Watching God Summary
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 1937 238 pages
3.99
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
School
My Religion - What I Believe Summary
My Religion - What I Believe
by Leo Tolstoy 1884 188 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Russia
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