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Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
16.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages
3.66
76.0K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
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
1.5K ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
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
4.07
3.7K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages
4.29
37.4K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Long Day’s Journey into Night Summary
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages
4.05
42.2K ratings
Plays
Drama
Classics
The New York Trilogy Summary
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster 1987 308 pages
3.87
83.2K ratings
Mystery
American
Novels
Cathedral Summary
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages
4.24
39.0K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
The Price of Civilization Summary
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2010 336 pages
3.84
2.1K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Franny and Zooey Summary
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages
3.96
233.0K ratings
Short Stories
Literature
Classics
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
18.8K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Christ in Concrete Summary
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages
3.76
1.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
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 1996 353 pages
4.14
52.0K ratings
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Sometimes a Great Notion Summary
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages
4.26
23.4K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Power Worshippers Summary
The Power Worshippers
Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
by Katherine Stewart 2020 352 pages
4.27
2.1K ratings
Politics
Religion
History
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
2.9K ratings
Classics
Novels
American
The Liberal Tradition in America Summary
The Liberal Tradition in America
by Louis Hartz 1955 348 pages
3.59
153 ratings
Politics
History
American History
God Hates Us All Summary
God Hates Us All
by Hank Moody 2009 200 pages
3.46
4.9K ratings
Contemporary
Humor
Literary Fiction
Rogue State Summary
Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum 2000 393 pages
3.97
905 ratings
Politics
History
War
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.59
14.9K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
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 928 pages
4.17
1.5K ratings
History
American History
Politics
The Pleasures of the Damned Summary
The Pleasures of the Damned
by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages
4.35
6.8K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Short Stories
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
211 ratings
China
Politics
History
Black Folk Summary
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 pages
4.49
370 ratings
History
Race
Politics
American Marxism Summary
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin 2021 317 pages
4.17
4.1K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages
3.75
19.1K ratings
Classics
Literature
Humor
We Are the Change We Seek Summary
We Are the Change We Seek
The Speeches of Barack Obama
by Joy-Ann Reid 2017 368 pages
4.34
550 ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.60
93.8K ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
Run With the Hunted Summary
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages
4.26
4.5K ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Literature
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.76
7.1K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
Why Americans Hate Politics Summary
Why Americans Hate Politics
by E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 432 pages
3.88
215 ratings
Politics
Political Science
American
Gravity’s Rainbow Summary
Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages
4.01
47.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Science Fiction
The Lost Continent Summary
The Lost Continent
Travels in Small-Town America
by Bill Bryson 1989 299 pages
3.81
63.8K ratings
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Devil's Game Summary
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 pages
4.00
261 ratings
Politics
History
Islam
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages
4.18
52.5K ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Humor
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
12.0K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll 2012 685 pages
3.99
4.1K ratings
Business
History
Politics
Un-Trumping America Summary
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
by Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 pages
4.20
2.7K ratings
Politics
History
American
No Democracy Lasts Forever Summary
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States
by Erwin Chemerinsky 2024 240 pages
3.88
227 ratings
Politics
History
Law
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
164 ratings
Writing
Business
American
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller 1941 250 pages
4.03
651 ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
The Age of Entitlement Summary
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 pages
4.03
1.6K ratings
History
Politics
Cultural
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings Summary
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 544 pages
4.02
501 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952 324 pages
3.94
217 ratings
History
American History
Economics
Heroes And Villains Summary
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
by Steven Gaines 1986 416 pages
3.86
718 ratings
Music
Biography
History
Crisis and Command Summary
Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
by John Yoo 2010 544 pages
3.62
129 ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
This Side of Paradise Summary
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 275 pages
3.64
78.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Beautiful and Damned Summary
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages
3.73
63.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
The Mammoth Book of the West Summary
The Mammoth Book of the West
The Making of the American West
by Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 pages
3.98
132 ratings
History
Westerns
American History
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
by Eve Babitz 2019 448 pages
4.16
1.3K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
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