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Tiny Beautiful Things Summary
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed 2012 353 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Essays
The Cancer Journals Summary
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde 1980 104 pages
4.43
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
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Aspects of the Novel Summary
Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster 1927 192 pages
3.80
4k+ ratings
Writing
Literary Criticism
Essays
Bird by Bird Summary
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott 1994 222 pages
4.24
100k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
Batman and Philosophy Summary
Batman and Philosophy
The Dark Knight of the Soul
by Mark D. White 2008 304 pages
3.76
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Batman
Comics
The Art of Stillness Summary
The Art of Stillness
Adventures in Going Nowhere
by Pico Iyer 2014 96 pages
3.73
8k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
A Philosophy of Loneliness Summary
A Philosophy of Loneliness
by Lars Fredrik HΓ€ndler Svendsen 2015 240 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Lying Summary
Lying
by Sam Harris 2011 83 pages
3.88
22k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Summary
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
by Thomas Ligotti 2011 240 pages
4.01
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Horror
Psychology
Breaking Bad and Philosophy Summary
Breaking Bad and Philosophy
Badder Living through Chemistry
by David R. Koepsell 2012 242 pages
3.30
274 ratings
Philosophy
Pop Culture
Essays
The Age of Magical Overthinking Summary
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Notes on Modern Irrationality
by Amanda Montell 2024 259 pages
3.43
29k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Essays
Girl on Girl Summary
Girl on Girl
How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by Sophie Gilbert 2025 352 pages
3.89
13k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Pop Culture
Diagnosis Summary
Diagnosis
Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
by Lisa Sanders 2019 320 pages
4.00
4k+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Medical
What Is Existentialism? Summary
What Is Existentialism?
by Simone de Beauvoir 1944
3.91
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Women & Power Summary
Women & Power
A Manifesto
by Mary Beard 2017 126 pages
4.02
39k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Essays
The Art of Travel Summary
The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton 2002 272 pages
3.82
26k+ ratings
Travel
Philosophy
Essays
Modern Love Summary
Modern Love
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
by Daniel Jones 2007 304 pages
4.19
14k+ ratings
Romance
Essays
Short Stories
Minima Moralia Summary
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno 1951 256 pages
4.24
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy Summary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
One Book to Rule Them All
by Gregory Bassham 2003 163 pages
4.27
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Books About Books
The Art of Happiness Summary
The Art of Happiness
by Epicurus 266 pages
3.80
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
This Is Water Summary
This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
by David Foster Wallace 2009 138 pages
4.47
39k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Self Help
The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung Summary
The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung
by C.G. Jung 1991 600 pages
4.16
473 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Doctor and the Saint Summary
The Doctor and the Saint
The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
by Arundhati Roy 2017 184 pages
4.33
2k+ ratings
India
History
Politics
The Psychology of Love Summary
The Psychology of Love
by Sigmund Freud 2006 368 pages
3.33
500+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit
by Jack Canfield 1994
3.98
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Short Stories
Conversations on Love Summary
Conversations on Love
by Natasha Lunn 2021 320 pages
4.20
48k+ ratings
Self Help
Essays
Love
On the Shortness of Life Summary
On the Shortness of Life
Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
by Seneca 106 pages
4.16
46k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
How Proust Can Change Your Life Summary
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton 1998 208 pages
3.76
18k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
The Truth About Everything Summary
The Truth About Everything
by Brianna Wiest 2013 126 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Essays
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Walter Benjamin 1936 111 pages
4.08
24k+ ratings
Philosophy
Art
Theory
About Writing Summary
About Writing
Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
by Samuel R. Delany 2006 272 pages
4.26
459 ratings
Writing
Essays
Crafts
Zen in the Art of Writing Summary
Zen in the Art of Writing
by Ray Bradbury 1973 176 pages
4.08
21k+ ratings
Writing
Essays
Memoir
Talking Zen Summary
Talking Zen
by Alan W. Watts 1994 208 pages
4.25
199 ratings
Philosophy
Buddhism
Spirituality
Richard Dawkins Summary
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
by Mark Ridley 2006 304 pages
3.77
485 ratings
Science
Biography
Biology
The Eyes of the Skin Summary
The Eyes of the Skin
Architecture and the Senses
by Juhani Pallasmaa 1996 80 pages
4.38
4k+ ratings
Architecture
Art
Design
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service Summary
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
by Michael Lewis 2025 272 pages
4.18
14k+ ratings
Politics
History
Essays
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 160 pages
3.67
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
How to Live Summary
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell 2010 400 pages
4.02
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
History
Letters Summary
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Think Summary
Think
A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
by Simon Blackburn 1999 312 pages
3.73
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Academic
History
Studies in Pessimism Summary
Studies in Pessimism
The Essays
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1890 76 pages
3.88
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
Brave New World Revisited Summary
Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley 1958 123 pages
3.94
22k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Philosophy
In Praise of Idleness Summary
In Praise of Idleness
by Bertrand Russell 1935
4.03
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Gaza in Crisis Summary
Gaza in Crisis
Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
by Ilan PappΓ© 2010 240 pages
4.15
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Middle East
On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition
by Timothy Snyder 2017 128 pages
4.29
100k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Letters To A Young Poet Summary
Letters To A Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 123 pages
4.27
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Missing Out Summary
Missing Out
In Praise of the Unlived Life
by Adam Phillips 2012 224 pages
3.47
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams Summary
The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
by C.G. Jung 1957 160 pages
4.30
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou 1987 192 pages
4.09
35k+ ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
Sister Outsider Summary
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde 1984 190 pages
4.53
41k+ ratings
Feminism
Essays
Race
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