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Somehow Summary
Somehow
Thoughts on Love
by Anne Lamott 2024 204 pages
3.91
5.2K ratings
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Memoir
Spirituality
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Summary
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
by Jack Canfield 1997 353 pages
3.94
19.4K ratings
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
The Truth About Stories Summary
The Truth About Stories
A Native Narrative
by Thomas King 2003 184 pages
4.34
4.2K ratings
Indigenous
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Canada
Draft No. 4 Summary
Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
by John McPhee 2013 208 pages
4.09
4.1K ratings
Writing
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Memoir
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet Summary
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
by Shauna Niequist 2022 240 pages
4.00
13.2K ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings Summary
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 416 pages
4.14
15.7K ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
The Mind’s I Summary
The Mind’s I
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1981 512 pages
4.15
5.9K ratings
Philosophy
Science
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born Summary
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
by Nancy Fraser 2019 63 pages
3.94
1.0K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Nobody Knows My Name Summary
Nobody Knows My Name
by James Baldwin 1961 242 pages
4.37
4.5K ratings
Essays
Race
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Novelist as a Vocation Summary
Novelist as a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami 2015 224 pages
3.89
16.7K ratings
Writing
Japan
Memoir
Power, Politics and Culture Summary
Power, Politics and Culture
Interviews With Edward W. Said
by Edward W. Said 2001 512 pages
4.25
592 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Inciting Joy Summary
Inciting Joy
Essays
by Ross Gay 2022 256 pages
4.14
5.0K ratings
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet Summary
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul 2021 288 pages
3.39
2.6K ratings
History
Essays
Self Help
Traveling Mercies Summary
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott 1999 275 pages
4.14
48.2K ratings
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
Essays and Aphorisms Summary
Essays and Aphorisms
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages
4.17
8.7K ratings
Philosophy
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Classics
The Creative Writing Coursebook Summary
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
by Andrew Motion 2001 391 pages
3.96
358 ratings
Writing
Reference
Essays
Grace (Eventually) Summary
Grace (Eventually)
Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott 2007 255 pages
3.96
16.8K ratings
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
I Can't Date Jesus Summary
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
by Michael Arceneaux 2018 258 pages
3.77
4.3K ratings
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Trust Kids! Summary
Trust Kids!
Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
by carla joy bergman 2022 240 pages
4.15
268 ratings
Parenting
Politics
Psychology
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Summary
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages
4.17
1.2K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
On Kindness Summary
On Kindness
by Adam Phillips 2009 128 pages
3.55
663 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Essays
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Summary
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell 1957 266 pages
4.01
21.8K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
Preface to Shakespeare Summary
Preface to Shakespeare
by Samuel Johnson 1778 68 pages
3.61
356 ratings
Classics
Literary Criticism
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Men Explain Things to Me Summary
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit 2014 130 pages
3.83
84.2K ratings
Feminism
Essays
Politics
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
We're Going to Need More Wine Summary
We're Going to Need More Wine
by Gabrielle Union 2017 272 pages
4.19
36.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Essays
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter Summary
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
by Scaachi Koul 2017 241 pages
3.73
13.3K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Freedom is a Constant Struggle Summary
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Y. Davis 2015 158 pages
4.44
33.0K ratings
Politics
Feminism
Race
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone Summary
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
by Shashi Tharoor 2007 512 pages
3.59
1.2K ratings
India
Politics
History
Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps Summary
Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps
Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
by Alan Gelb 2013 224 pages
3.65
150 ratings
Education
Self Help
Essays
These Precious Days Summary
These Precious Days
Essays
by Ann Patchett 2021 320 pages
4.43
43.3K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Book Club
Big Questions from Little People Summary
Big Questions from Little People
And Simple Answers from Great Minds
by Gemma Elwin Harris 2012 336 pages
3.87
1.5K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Childrens
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius Summary
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius
Part One from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 130 pages
3.96
924 ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
112.7K ratings
Classics
Essays
Race
Walking in Wonder Summary
Walking in Wonder
Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
by John O'Donohue 2018 193 pages
4.44
1.1K ratings
Spirituality
Poetry
Philosophy
Called to Community Summary
Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People
by Eberhard Arnold 2016 378 pages
4.11
157 ratings
Theology
Faith
Christian
The School of Life Summary
The School of Life
by Alain de Botton 2012 464 pages
4.17
1.6K ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Strangers to Ourselves Summary
Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
by Rachel Aviv 2022 288 pages
4.11
13.5K ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Free and Equal Summary
Free and Equal
A Manifesto for a Just Society
by Daniel Chandler 2024 432 pages
3.94
362 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Walden & Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden & Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau 1849 320 pages
3.94
38.5K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
Fallen Leaves Summary
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
by Will Durant 2014 208 pages
3.93
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
History
Essays
On Drinking Summary
On Drinking
by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages
3.88
1.6K ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Essays
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry 1977 246 pages
4.34
6.4K ratings
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Very Good Lives Summary
Very Good Lives
The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
by J.K. Rowling 2015 74 pages
4.09
28.6K ratings
Self Help
Essays
Inspirational
Our Culture, What's Left of It Summary
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
by Theodore Dalrymple 2005 356 pages
4.14
1.5K ratings
Politics
Essays
Philosophy
The Walking Dead and Philosophy Summary
The Walking Dead and Philosophy
Zombie Apocalypse Now
by Wayne Yuen 2012 262 pages
3.63
118 ratings
Philosophy
Zombies
Pop Culture
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Summary
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard 2007 185 pages
3.44
4.8K ratings
Books About Books
Philosophy
Essays
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Summary
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg 2019 112 pages
3.85
27.1K ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
SCUM Manifesto Summary
SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas 1967 96 pages
3.77
11.3K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Personality, Character, and Intelligence Summary
Personality, Character, and Intelligence
Part Three from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 100 pages
3.91
752 ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
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