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Lord of the Flies Summary
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding 1954 182 pages
3.70
3.2M+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
School
The Outsider Summary
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson 1956 320 pages
4.03
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
The Names Summary
The Names
by Don DeLillo 1982 339 pages
3.64
5k+ ratings
Novels
American
Mystery
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Summary
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
by Thomas C. Foster 2003 314 pages
3.58
34k+ ratings
School
Books About Books
Writing
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler Summary
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
by Francisco de Quevedo 1969 240 pages
3.62
1k+ ratings
Classics
Spanish Literature
Spain
City of Glass Summary
City of Glass
by Paul Auster 1985 203 pages
3.75
24k+ ratings
Mystery
Classics
American
The Magic Mountain Summary
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann 1924 706 pages
4.13
63k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
Literature
Emma Bovary Summary
Emma Bovary
by Harold Bloom 1856 222 pages
3.71
300k+ ratings
Classics
France
Literature
For Whom the Bell Tolls Summary
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages
3.99
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Good Earth Summary
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 pages
4.01
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
China
Gulivers Travels Summary
Gulivers Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 352 pages
3.59
300k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
The Age of Innocence Summary
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Romance
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages
3.53
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
A Clockwork Orange Summary
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess 1962 240 pages
4.00
700k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Jitterbug Perfume Summary
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins 1984 342 pages
4.23
81k+ ratings
Fantasy
Humor
Magical Realism
Masnavi I Ma'navi Summary
Masnavi I Ma'navi
The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'D-Din Muhammad Rumi
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1273 483 pages
4.45
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
The Professor Summary
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages
3.54
30k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Victorian
David Copperfield Summary
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages
4.05
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Letter Summary
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 279 pages
3.44
900k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
School
Saturday Summary
Saturday
by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages
3.64
74k+ ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Book Club
Naked Lunch Summary
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages
3.46
99k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.11
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
A Room with a View Summary
A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster 1908 119 pages
3.89
200k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Call of the Wild Summary
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London 1903 172 pages
3.92
400k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Young Adult
The Awakening Summary
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin 1899 195 pages
3.69
200k+ ratings
Classics
Feminism
School
The Story Solution Summary
The Story Solution
23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take
by Eric Edson 2012 330 pages
4.32
222 ratings
Writing
Film
Psychology
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages
4.21
65k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Nocturnes Summary
Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 pages
3.51
33k+ ratings
Short Stories
Music
Contemporary
Letter to a Child Never Born Summary
Letter to a Child Never Born
by Oriana Fallaci 1975 128 pages
4.03
24k+ ratings
Feminism
Italian Literature
Novels
The Plot Against America Summary
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth 2004 391 pages
3.82
70k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Alternate History
Literature
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 294 pages
4.10
39k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Religion
The Palace of Dreams Summary
The Palace of Dreams
by Ismail Kadare 1981 208 pages
3.94
6k+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Dystopia
Women in Love Summary
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence 1920 416 pages
3.66
33k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
Imaginary Homelands Summary
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Essays
India
Politics
White Fang Summary
White Fang
by Jack London 1906 252 pages
4.03
200k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
The Iliad Summary
The Iliad
by Homer 848 pages
3.93
500k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
The Invisible Man Summary
The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 1897 192 pages
3.63
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Horror
Writing for Emotional Impact Summary
Writing for Emotional Impact
Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End
by Karl Iglesias 2005 238 pages
4.27
500+ ratings
Writing
Film
Reference
A Life Worth Living Summary
A Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
by Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
History
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
Allah Is Not Obliged Summary
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 215 pages
3.67
2k+ ratings
Africa
Ivory Coast
African Literature
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction Summary
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
by Alan Jacobs 2011 162 pages
3.94
3k+ ratings
Books About Books
Education
Essays
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
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
Shakespeare Summary
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom 1998 745 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Shakespeare
Literary Criticism
Literature
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.76
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
Nostalgia Summary
Nostalgia
by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 361 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Romania
Short Stories
Romanian Literature
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