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From the Earth to the Moon Summary
From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne 1865 136 pages
3.76
38.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Adventure
Diary of a Superfluous Man Summary
Diary of a Superfluous Man
by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages
3.85
3.8K ratings
Russian Literature
Russia
Classics
Sackett's Land Summary
Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour 1974 185 pages
4.16
14.0K ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Gravity’s Rainbow Summary
Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages
4.01
47.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Science Fiction
Eva Luna Summary
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende 1987 307 pages
4.00
56.8K ratings
Magical Realism
Historical Fiction
Classics
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.76
7.1K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
It Can't Happen Here Summary
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 pages
3.80
23.0K ratings
Classics
Politics
Dystopia
The Elements of Style Summary
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. 1918 105 pages
4.18
85.9K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2 Summary
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
by Nelson Mandela 2003 450 pages
4.41
572 ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Westworld Summary
Westworld
by Michael Crichton 1974 107 pages
3.73
2.2K ratings
Science Fiction
Thriller
Fantasy
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations Summary
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1859 834 pages
4.02
17.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Deux ans de vacances Summary
Deux ans de vacances
by Jules Verne 1888 544 pages
3.97
6.4K ratings
Classics
Adventure
France
Die Physiker Summary
Die Physiker
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 95 pages
3.89
41.6K ratings
Classics
Plays
German Literature
Moby Dick Summary
Moby Dick
by Christophe Chabouté 2014 256 pages
4.09
1.4K ratings
Comics
Graphic Novels
Classics
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Summary
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume 1748 96 pages
3.94
21.7K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages
4.20
9.4K ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us Summary
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
by Simon Critchley 2019 336 pages
3.89
342 ratings
Philosophy
History
Literary Criticism
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.83
74.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
How Do You Live? Summary
How Do You Live?
by Genzaburo Yoshino 1937 288 pages
4.00
16.3K ratings
Classics
Japan
Japanese Literature
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Summary
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass 1845 158 pages
4.12
131.0K ratings
History
Classics
Biography
Black Like Me Summary
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin 1961 208 pages
4.11
69.0K ratings
History
Memoir
Classics
Space Trilogy Summary
Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
by C.S. Lewis 1938 764 pages
4.18
11.6K ratings
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Classics
Summer of My German Soldier Summary
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene 1973 203 pages
3.70
17.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Romance
Letters on Cézanne Summary
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 pages
4.18
897 ratings
Art
Poetry
Classics
Oliver Twist Summary
Oliver Twist
by Marian Leighton 1989 240 pages
4.04
3.1K ratings
Classics
Childrens
Young Adult
A Short History of the World Summary
A Short History of the World
by H.G. Wells 1922 371 pages
3.86
2.8K ratings
History
Classics
World History
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Summary
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C.S. Lewis 1952 248 pages
4.09
498.5K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Young Adult
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Summary
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson 1962 152 pages
3.92
278.9K ratings
Horror
Classics
Gothic
Gabriel García Márquez Summary
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Michael Wood 1990 132 pages
4.54
5.9K ratings
Classics
Novels
Literature
Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll Summary
Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll
by Robert G. Ingersoll 1942 334 pages
4.59
118 ratings
Philosophy
Skepticism
Religion
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings Summary
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
by Karl Marx 2005 224 pages
3.63
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
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
42.7K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
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
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.24
8.2K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages
4.09
3.2K ratings
Classics
Horror
Gothic
The White Company Summary
The White Company
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1891 416 pages
3.89
4.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Adventure
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon 1956 142 pages
3.70
13.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
20th Century
The Woman Destroyed Summary
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir 1967 254 pages
4.02
42.6K ratings
Feminism
Classics
Short Stories
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
193.8K ratings
Fantasy
Art
Classics
Grief Lessons Summary
Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
by Anne Carson 312 pages
4.37
2.0K ratings
Plays
Classics
Poetry
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Summary
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes 1935 423 pages
3.85
5.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Tales from Watership Down Summary
Tales from Watership Down
by Richard Adams 1996 335 pages
3.83
9.3K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Animals
Blue Bamboo Summary
Blue Bamboo
Japanese Tales of Fantasy
by Osamu Dazai 1993 184 pages
3.72
2.9K ratings
Short Stories
Japan
Japanese Literature
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller 1941 250 pages
4.03
651 ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
American Supernatural Tales Summary
American Supernatural Tales
by S.T. Joshi 2007 478 pages
4.01
1.2K ratings
Horror
Short Stories
Anthologies
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book Summary
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
by Better Homes and Gardens 1953 576 pages
4.15
138.0K ratings
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
For the New Intellectual Summary
For the New Intellectual
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Ayn Rand 1961 224 pages
3.70
3.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Go Set a Watchman Summary
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee 2015 278 pages
3.31
285.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Book Club
Confucius from the Heart Summary
Confucius from the Heart
by Dan YU 2006 192 pages
3.76
655 ratings
Philosophy
China
Self Help
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
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