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The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards Summary

The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

by Jessica Waite 2024 320 pages

Biography Memoir

Britt-Marie Was Here Summary

Britt-Marie Was Here

by Fredrik Backman 2014 324 pages

Sex and Rage Summary

by Eve Babitz 1979 256 pages

How to Kill Men and Get Away With It Summary

How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

by Katy Brent 2023 384 pages

L'Arminuta Summary

by Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017 163 pages

Italian Literature

The Theory of Attraction Summary

The Theory of Attraction

by Delphine Dryden 2012 136 pages

Our Wives Under the Sea Summary

Our Wives Under the Sea

by Julia Armfield 2022 240 pages

Can You Keep a Secret? Summary

Can You Keep a Secret?

by Sophie Kinsella 2003 374 pages

Dear Ava Summary

by Ilsa Madden-Mills 2020 376 pages

Enemies To Lovers

Secretly Yours Summary

by Tessa Bailey 2023 384 pages

Contemporary Romance

Stuck with You Summary

by Ali Hazelwood 2022 127 pages

Wild and Wrangled Summary

Wild and Wrangled

by Lyla Sage 2025 368 pages

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Summary

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce 2012 320 pages

British Literature

Before Your Memory Fades Summary

Before Your Memory Fades

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2018 220 pages

Magical Realism

Japanese Literature

My Roommate Is a Vampire Summary

My Roommate Is a Vampire

by Jenna Levine 2023 341 pages

The Mother-in-Law Summary

The Mother-in-Law

by Sally Hepworth 2019 347 pages

Mystery Thriller

The Namesake Summary

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 pages

Literary Fiction

Skin of a Sinner Summary

Skin of a Sinner

by Avina St. Graves 2023 391 pages

Greek Lessons Summary

by Han Kang 2011 192 pages

Literary Fiction

We Were the Mulvaneys Summary

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates 1996 454 pages

Literary Fiction

Talking at Night Summary

Talking at Night

by Claire Daverley 2023 400 pages

Literary Fiction

Finding Cinderella Summary

Finding Cinderella

by Colleen Hoover 2013 176 pages

Dear John Summary

by Nicholas Sparks 2006 276 pages

Always and Forever, Lara Jean Summary

Always and Forever, Lara Jean

by Jenny Han 2017 325 pages

by Paisley Hope 2024 416 pages

by Mieko Kawakami 2009 192 pages

Japanese Literature

All He'll Ever Be Summary

All He'll Ever Be

by W. Winters 2019 740 pages

Someone Else's Shoes Summary

Someone Else's Shoes

by Jojo Moyes 2023 438 pages

All-American Muslim Girl Summary

All-American Muslim Girl

by Nadine Jolie Courtney 2019 432 pages

The Keeper of Lost Things Summary

The Keeper of Lost Things

by Ruth Hogan 2017 288 pages

Tomorrowmind Summary

Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection―Now and in an Uncertain Future

by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman 2023 288 pages

The Flea Palace Summary

The Flea Palace

by Elif Shafak 2002 448 pages

Turkish Literature

Savage Lover Summary

by Sophie Lark 2020 412 pages

Survivor Summary

by Chuck Palahniuk 1999 289 pages

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Summary

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 289 pages

Literary Fiction

So Not Meant To Be Summary

So Not Meant To Be

by Meghan Quinn 2022 512 pages

Enemies To Lovers

Contemporary Romance

The Off Limits Rule Summary

The Off Limits Rule

by Sarah Adams 2020 282 pages

Contemporary Romance

The Best of Me Summary

by Nicholas Sparks 2010 292 pages

My Life as an Alphabet Summary

My Life as an Alphabet

by Barry Jonsberg 2013 256 pages

Realistic Fiction

That One Night Summary

by Emily Rath 2023 124 pages

Outer Banks Summary

by Alyssa Sheinmel 2021 288 pages

Confess Summary

by Colleen Hoover 2015 320 pages

Outline Summary

by Rachel Cusk 2014 249 pages

Literary Fiction

After You Summary

by Jojo Moyes 2015 352 pages

What Young India Wants Summary

What Young India Wants

by Chetan Bhagat 2012 181 pages

Indian Literature

The Nest Summary

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 2016 353 pages

Wild River Summary

by Laura Pavlov 2024 353 pages

Enemies To Lovers

Small Town Romance

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Summary

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by John Green 2010 320 pages

What Happens in Paradise Summary

What Happens in Paradise

by Elin Hilderbrand 2019 432 pages

Ace of Spades Summary

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 2021 470 pages

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