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Novels Book Summaries

Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon • 1973

by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages

by Reza Negarestani • 2008

Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Complicity with Anonymous Materials

by Reza Negarestani 2008 268 pages

by Bohumil Hrabal • 1976

by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages

by Vladimir Sorokin • 2006

by Vladimir Sorokin 2006 191 pages

by Miguel Ángel Asturias • 1997

by Miguel Ángel Asturias 1997 287 pages

by J.D. Salinger • 1957

by J.D. Salinger 1957

by Colin Wilson • 1967

The Supernatural Metaphysical Cult Thriller

The Supernatural Metaphysical Cult Thriller

by Colin Wilson 1967 240 pages

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello • 1992

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello 1992 174 pages

by Doris Lessing • 1999

by Doris Lessing 1999 640 pages

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones • 1951

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones 1951 816 pages

by Oliver Bowden • 2012

by Oliver Bowden 2012 464 pages

by Irvine Welsh • 1998

by Irvine Welsh 1998 393 pages

Métaphysique des tubes

by Amélie Nothomb • 2000

Métaphysique des tubes

by Amélie Nothomb 2000 156 pages

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino • 1977

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino 1977 217 pages

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey • 1964

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers • 2000

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy • 1992

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages

by Eric S. Nylund • 2003

by Eric S. Nylund 2003 352 pages

by James Luceno • 2014

by James Luceno 2014 288 pages

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante • 1938

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante 1938 266 pages

by Jean Echenoz • 2009

by Jean Echenoz 2009 128 pages

by Georges Perec • 1978

by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne • 2004

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne 2004 723 pages

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

by Vladimir Nabokov • 1935

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

by Vladimir Nabokov 1935

by Sean Williams • 2010

by Sean Williams 2010 417 pages

by Richard Yates • 1961

by Richard Yates 1961 355 pages

by Joanna Trollope • 1989

an elegantly warm-hearted and, at times, wry story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

an elegantly warm-hearted and, at times, wry story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

by Joanna Trollope 1989 277 pages

by Drew Karpyshyn • 2009

by Drew Karpyshyn 2009 296 pages

by TurtleMe • 2021

by TurtleMe 2021 924 pages

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1967

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand • 1995

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2024 302 pages

by Virginia Woolf • 1927

by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz • 2007

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz 2007 11 pages

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER S DAY

by Hilary Mantel • 1985

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER S DAY

by Hilary Mantel 1985 212 pages

by Kateřina Tučková • 2022

by Kateřina Tučková 2022 421 pages

by Drew Karpyshyn • 2006

by Drew Karpyshyn 2006 324 pages

by Philip K. Dick • 1967

by Philip K. Dick 1967 218 pages

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa

by Elena Ferrante • 2015

L'amica geniale. Edizione completa

by Elena Ferrante 2015 1721 pages

by John French • 2019

by John French 2019 407 pages

by Theodore Dreiser • 1947

by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages

by Arthur Koestler • 1940

by Arthur Koestler 1940 216 pages

by Ernest Hemingway • 1927

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

by Drew Karpyshyn • 2007

by Drew Karpyshyn 2007 318 pages

by Alexandre Dumas • 2001

The Prince of Thieves

The Prince of Thieves

by Alexandre Dumas 2001 224 pages

by Toni Morrison • 1977

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

The Charismatic Charlie Wade

by Lord Leaf

The Charismatic Charlie Wade

by Lord Leaf

by James A. Michener • 1992

by James A. Michener 1992 672 pages

by John Fowles • 1965

by John Fowles 1965 656 pages

by René Daumal • 2005

by René Daumal 2005 120 pages

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