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The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton 1913 370 pages
4.06
15.2K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
American
Becoming a Writer Summary
Becoming a Writer
by Dorothea Brande 1934 192 pages
4.00
6.2K ratings
Writing
Reference
Crafts
Of Man Summary
Of Man
by Thomas Hobbes 1658 124 pages
3.50
228 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Black Tulip Summary
The Black Tulip
by Alexandre Dumas 1850 246 pages
3.85
22.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
France
The Obscene Bird of Night Summary
The Obscene Bird of Night
by José Donoso 1970 438 pages
4.20
4.0K ratings
Horror
Magical Realism
Spanish Literature
Gift from the Sea Summary
Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1955 130 pages
4.14
54.0K ratings
Memoir
Classics
Book Club
Socialism Summary
Socialism
Utopian and Scientific
by Friedrich Engels 1880 86 pages
4.24
7.8K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Villette Summary
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages
3.78
77.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Summary
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John Le Carré 1974 381 pages
4.06
103.0K ratings
Mystery
Thriller
Espionage
Caligula and Three Other Plays Summary
Caligula and Three Other Plays
by Albert Camus 1949 302 pages
4.05
2.4K ratings
Plays
Drama
Philosophy
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Summary
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare 1609 458 pages
4.19
2.8K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
A Man Without a Country Summary
A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2005 145 pages
4.10
48.4K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
A Calendar of Wisdom Summary
A Calendar of Wisdom
Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
by Leo Tolstoy 1906 384 pages
3.97
2.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
Vathek Summary
Vathek
by William Beckford 1786 180 pages
3.24
7.0K ratings
Gothic
Classics
Horror
A Christmas Carol Summary
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens 1843 184 pages
4.09
889.1K ratings
Christmas
Classics
Fantasy
Introduction to Metaphysics Summary
Introduction to Metaphysics
by Martin Heidegger 1929 254 pages
4.03
4.3K ratings
Philosophy
Metaphysics
German Literature
Despair Summary
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 212 pages
3.91
11.1K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Tortilla Flat Summary
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck 1935 256 pages
3.83
60.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Summary
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
by August Wilson 1984 111 pages
4.00
3.9K ratings
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
جوهر الإنسان Summary
جوهر الإنسان
by Erich Fromm 1944 203 pages
4.04
1.8K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
My Life And Work Summary
My Life And Work
by Henry Ford 1922 140 pages
4.18
5.3K ratings
Biography
Business
History
بوستان سعدی Summary
بوستان سعدی
by Saadi 1257 196 pages
4.35
2.0K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Iran
An Old-Fashioned Girl Summary
An Old-Fashioned Girl
by Louisa May Alcott 1870 288 pages
4.09
21.6K ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Summary
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
by Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 pages
4.44
20.2K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
The Story of My Life Summary
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller 1902 240 pages
4.08
149.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
Naked Lunch Summary
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages
3.46
96.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Coming of Age in Samoa Summary
Coming of Age in Samoa
A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by Margaret Mead 1928 223 pages
3.55
3.1K ratings
Anthropology
Psychology
Sociology
The War of the End of the World Summary
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 568 pages
4.25
12.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
Novels
Wait Until Spring, Bandini Summary
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
by John Fante 1938 266 pages
4.09
14.2K ratings
Classics
Novels
American
The Mis-Education of the Negro Summary
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson 1933 215 pages
4.49
9.9K ratings
History
Education
Race
Anne Frank Summary
Anne Frank
The Biography
by Melissa Müller 1998 330 pages
4.34
25.5K ratings
Biography
History
Holocaust
Riders of the Purple Sage Summary
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey 1912 320 pages
3.75
14.1K ratings
Westerns
Classics
Historical Fiction
The Great Divorce Summary
The Great Divorce
by C.S. Lewis 1946 160 pages
4.33
172.4K ratings
Christian
Religion
Classics
Relativity Summary
Relativity
The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein 1916 130 pages
4.20
22.5K ratings
Science
Physics
Classics
From Here to Eternity Summary
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones 1951 816 pages
4.08
17.9K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
16.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Riddle of the Sands Summary
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers 1903 336 pages
3.63
7.4K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Espionage
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. Summary
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 128 pages
3.84
933 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Twelve Years a Slave Summary
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup 1853 363 pages
4.22
122.3K ratings
History
Classics
Biography
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages
4.22
62.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The Man Who Counted Summary
The Man Who Counted
A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages
4.11
6.5K ratings
Mathematics
Classics
Novels
The Importance of Living Summary
The Importance of Living
by Lin Yutang 1937 462 pages
4.06
1.4K ratings
Philosophy
China
Self Help
The Ministry of Fear Summary
The Ministry of Fear
by Graham Greene 1943 224 pages
3.78
7.3K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Thriller
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages
3.66
76.0K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Phantom of the Opera Summary
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux 1910 360 pages
3.96
264.5K ratings
Horror
Romance
Gothic
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
The Hobbit, Part One Summary
The Hobbit, Part One
by J.R.R. Tolkien 1937 230 pages
4.31
380.1K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Adventure
Sounder Summary
Sounder
by William H. Armstrong 1969 116 pages
3.97
31.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Young Adult
The Essential Marcus Aurelius Summary
The Essential Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius 111 pages
4.39
1.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Why Read Moby-Dick? Summary
Why Read Moby-Dick?
by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 pages
3.76
4.3K ratings
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