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The Gospel Singer Summary
The Gospel Singer
by Harry Crews 1968 300 pages
4.22
2k+ ratings
Southern Gothic
Classics
Southern
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
The Well-Educated Mind Summary
The Well-Educated Mind
A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
by Susan Wise Bauer 2003 432 pages
4.00
3k+ ratings
Education
Books About Books
Reference
Far From the Madding Crowd Summary
Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Rigveda Summary
The Rigveda
The Earliest Religious Poetry of India
by Anonymous 1001 1728 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Hinduism
Isabel Allende Summary
Isabel Allende
Eva Luna : Spanish Language Edition (Paperback - Spanish); 1995 Edition
by Isabel Allende 1987
4.01
59k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Historical Fiction
Classics
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.75
7k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
A Writer's Diary Summary
A Writer's Diary
by Virginia Woolf 1953 355 pages
4.17
6k+ ratings
Writing
Classics
Biography
Tales from Watership Down Summary
Tales from Watership Down
by Richard Adams 1996 335 pages
3.84
9k+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Animals
How to Do the Right Thing Summary
How to Do the Right Thing
An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly
by Seneca 2023 288 pages
3.74
218 ratings
Philosophy
History
Classics
The White Company Summary
The White Company
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1891 416 pages
3.89
4k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Adventure
Great Expectations Summary
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages
3.80
800k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Science and Sanity Summary
Science and Sanity
An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
by Alfred Korzybski 1933 927 pages
4.40
386 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Summary
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes 1935 423 pages
3.85
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages
3.94
54k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Literature
Écrits Summary
Écrits
by Jacques Lacan 1966 896 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
How to Win an Election Summary
How to Win an Election
An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
by Quintus Tullius Cicero 128 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Classics
Dom Casmurro Summary
Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages
4.33
38k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Brazil
The Fall of Gondolin Summary
The Fall of Gondolin
by J.R.R. Tolkien 2018 304 pages
4.09
18k+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
High Fantasy
Six Characters in Search of an Author Summary
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 pages
3.83
22k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
La vie heureuse Summary
La vie heureuse
by David Foenkinos 2024 208 pages
3.63
7k+ ratings
France
Novels
Roman
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon 1956 142 pages
3.70
14k+ ratings
Classics
London
Historical Fiction
The Woman in White Summary
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins 1859 672 pages
4.02
100k+ ratings
Classics
Mystery
Gothic
The Bridge on the Drina Summary
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić 1945 314 pages
4.33
25k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Nobel Prize
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.61
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
How To Dress For Success Summary
How To Dress For Success
by Edith Head 1967 212 pages
3.80
206 ratings
Fashion
Business
Classics
Ethics Summary
Ethics
by Baruch Spinoza 1677 186 pages
4.10
21k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
The Art of Always Being Right Summary
The Art of Always Being Right
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1831 138 pages
3.50
18k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Troy Summary
Troy
by Stephen Fry 2020 414 pages
4.34
44k+ ratings
Mythology
History
Greek Mythology
Holy Bible Summary
Holy Bible
English Standard Version
by Anonymous 2001 1243 pages
4.60
52k+ ratings
Christian
Religion
Reference
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4 Summary
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4
The Minority Report
by Philip K. Dick 1987 396 pages
4.11
14k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Short Stories
Science Fiction Fantasy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages
4.18
84k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Classics
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages
4.19
9k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
The Prelude Summary
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romanticism
Cold Mountain Summary
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier 1997 449 pages
3.89
200k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Romance
The Glass Bead Game Summary
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse 1943 558 pages
4.10
42k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
The Warriors Summary
The Warriors
by Sol Yurick 1965 212 pages
3.37
2k+ ratings
Crime
Classics
Thriller
Cat’s Eye Summary
Cat’s Eye
by Margaret Atwood 1988 462 pages
3.95
73k+ ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Canada
Up from Slavery Summary
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington 1900 224 pages
4.11
36k+ ratings
History
Biography
Classics
Foucault’s Pendulum Summary
Foucault’s Pendulum
by Umberto Eco 1988 623 pages
3.91
75k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1884 520 pages
4.10
43k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
Summer of My German Soldier Summary
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene 1973 203 pages
3.70
17k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Romance
Pebble in the Sky Summary
Pebble in the Sky
by Isaac Asimov 1950 308 pages
3.90
27k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Fantasy
Classics
The Adolescent Summary
The Adolescent
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1875 580 pages
3.93
11k+ ratings
Classics
Russian Literature
Russia
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring Summary
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
by Gary Russell 2002 192 pages
4.61
200k+ ratings
Fantasy
Art
Classics
Forrest Gump Summary
Forrest Gump
by Winston Groom 1986 248 pages
4.00
72k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Humor
Classics
Run With the Hunted Summary
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages
4.26
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Literature
Self-Reliance and Other Essays Summary
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 117 pages
4.12
20k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The Voyage of the Beagle Summary
The Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin 1839 480 pages
4.02
8k+ ratings
Science
History
Travel
Dans la peau d'un Noir Summary
Dans la peau d'un Noir
by John Howard Griffin 1961 256 pages
4.11
69k+ ratings
History
Memoir
Classics
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