Книжный клуб

Истории, меняющие жизнь, и книги, заставляющие задуматься, объединяют читателей в содержательных дискуссиях и совместных открытиях. Эти тщательно подобранные произведения охватывают личные истории, социальные проблемы и переломные моменты, которые вдохновляют на разговоры и сближают любителей чтения.

Книжный клуб Саммари книг

Certain Women

— Madeleine L'Engle • 1992

An aging actor, his daughter, and a King David play: healing a family.

3.74

1 000+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter 🛏️ Deathbed Farewell 🎭 Theater World 💞 Second Chance Love

Certain Women

An aging actor, his daughter, and a King David play: healing a family.

— Madeleine L'Engle 1992 368 стр.

3.74

1 000+ оценок

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter 🛏️ Deathbed Farewell 🎭 Theater World 💞 Second Chance Love

The Midwife of Auschwitz

— Anna Stuart • 2022

Two midwives in Auschwitz deliver babies in secret, tattooing each one before the Reich steals them.

4.5

56 000+

🕯️ Holocaust Fiction 🤰 Midwife Narrative 👶 Stolen Children 🗝️ Secret Resistance 💔 Love In Wartime

The Midwife of Auschwitz

Two midwives in Auschwitz deliver babies in secret, tattooing each one before the Reich steals them.

— Anna Stuart 2022 348 стр.

4.5

56 000+ оценок

🕯️ Holocaust Fiction 🤰 Midwife Narrative 👶 Stolen Children 🗝️ Secret Resistance 💔 Love In Wartime

The Big Burn

— Timothy Egan • 2009

Congress tried to kill the Forest Service; a 3.2-million-acre fire saved it instead.

4.14

18 000+

🗳️ Progressive Era 🌲 Conservation Movement 🔥 Wildfire History 🏞️ Public Lands 🌿 Fire Ecology

The Big Burn

Congress tried to kill the Forest Service; a 3.2-million-acre fire saved it instead.

— Timothy Egan 2009 349 стр.

4.14

18 000+ оценок

🗳️ Progressive Era 🌲 Conservation Movement 🔥 Wildfire History 🏞️ Public Lands 🌿 Fire Ecology

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

— Jason Pargin • 2024

A driver, a stranger, a locked box, and an internet that thinks it's a bomb.

3.93

17 000+

🖥️ Internet Satire 📱 Viral Paranoia 🚗 Odd Couple Road Trip 🤷 Reluctant Everyman 😂 Absurdist Humor

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

A driver, a stranger, a locked box, and an internet that thinks it's a bomb.

— Jason Pargin 2024 400 стр.

3.93

17 000+ оценок

🖥️ Internet Satire 📱 Viral Paranoia 🚗 Odd Couple Road Trip 🤷 Reluctant Everyman 😂 Absurdist Humor

Brisbane

— Eugene Vodolazkin • 2018

A guitarist's hands falter in Paris. A writer wants his life before the music stops.

3.97

1 000+

🖊️ Fictional Biography 🎸 Musical Life 🍂 Elegiac Novel 🧸 Soviet Childhood 🌍 Cross-Cultural Love

Brisbane

A guitarist's hands falter in Paris. A writer wants his life before the music stops.

— Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 стр.

3.97

1 000+ оценок

🖊️ Fictional Biography 🎸 Musical Life 🍂 Elegiac Novel 🧸 Soviet Childhood 🌍 Cross-Cultural Love

The End of Your Life Book Club

— Will Schwalbe • 2012

She had terminal cancer. He had questions. They started a book club instead of saying goodbye.

3.81

56 000+

👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bonds 🏥 Terminal Illness 📚 Bibliotherapy 🌍 Humanitarian Work 🩺 Caregiver Memoirs

The End of Your Life Book Club

She had terminal cancer. He had questions. They started a book club instead of saying goodbye.

— Will Schwalbe 2012 336 стр.

3.81

56 000+ оценок

👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bonds 🏥 Terminal Illness 📚 Bibliotherapy 🌍 Humanitarian Work 🩺 Caregiver Memoirs

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

— Claire North • 2014

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

4.03

100 000+

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

— Claire North 2014 417 стр.

4.03

100 000+ оценок

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Rival Immortals

Family of Origin

— C.J. Hauser • 2019

Estranged siblings reunite after their father drowns among a cult studying backward evolution.

3.48

1 000+

🥀 Estranged Siblings 🧬 Complicated Father 🏝️ Remote Island 🧪 Fringe Science 🖤 Quiet Grief

Family of Origin

Estranged siblings reunite after their father drowns among a cult studying backward evolution.

— C.J. Hauser 2019 287 стр.

3.48

1 000+ оценок

🥀 Estranged Siblings 🧬 Complicated Father 🏝️ Remote Island 🧪 Fringe Science 🖤 Quiet Grief

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

— Ashley Jordan • 2025

A grieving playwright and a divorced single father collide as neighbors in the Smoky Mountains.

3.71

9 000+

🖤 Grief Romance 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 👨‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💚 Emotional Healing

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

A grieving playwright and a divorced single father collide as neighbors in the Smoky Mountains.

— Ashley Jordan 2025 448 стр.

3.71

9 000+ оценок

🖤 Grief Romance 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 👨‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💚 Emotional Healing

The Unlikely Disciple

— Kevin Roose • 2009

He arrived a skeptic. He left a prayer. One semester undercover at Liberty University.

3.98

12 000+

✝️ Evangelicalism 📰 Immersion Journalism 🤔 Faith And Doubt 🏛️ Social Conservatism 🧬 Creationism

The Unlikely Disciple

He arrived a skeptic. He left a prayer. One semester undercover at Liberty University.

— Kevin Roose 2009 324 стр.

3.98

12 000+ оценок

✝️ Evangelicalism 📰 Immersion Journalism 🤔 Faith And Doubt 🏛️ Social Conservatism 🧬 Creationism

I'd Rather Be Reading

— Anne Bogel • 2018

Finished her first book by flashlight at 2 a.m. and never stopped: a bibliophile's confessions.

4.02

20 000+

📚 Bibliophilia 📖 Reading Habits 🏛️ Library Nostalgia 👥 Book Community 📦 Book Collecting

I'd Rather Be Reading

Finished her first book by flashlight at 2 a.m. and never stopped: a bibliophile's confessions.

— Anne Bogel 2018 156 стр.

4.02

20 000+ оценок

📚 Bibliophilia 📖 Reading Habits 🏛️ Library Nostalgia 👥 Book Community 📦 Book Collecting

We All Live Here

— Jojo Moyes • 2025

Grieving her mother and her marriage, a writer's chaos deepens when her estranged father reappears.

3.88

100 000+

👩‍👧 Single Motherhood 🏠 Blended Family Chaos 🧳 Prodigal Father 😂 Wry Domestic Humor 🌻 Gardener Love Interest

We All Live Here

Grieving her mother and her marriage, a writer's chaos deepens when her estranged father reappears.

— Jojo Moyes 2025 450 стр.

3.88

100 000+ оценок

👩‍👧 Single Motherhood 🏠 Blended Family Chaos 🧳 Prodigal Father 😂 Wry Domestic Humor 🌻 Gardener Love Interest

The Time in Between

— María Dueñas • 2009

Abandoned in Tangiers, a seamstress builds a couture house that draws her into wartime espionage.

4.20

52 000+

🕵️ WWII Espionage ⚔️ Spanish Civil War 🫂 Found Family 💔 Wartime Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Time in Between

Abandoned in Tangiers, a seamstress builds a couture house that draws her into wartime espionage.

— María Dueñas 2009 615 стр.

4.20

52 000+ оценок

🕵️ WWII Espionage ⚔️ Spanish Civil War 🫂 Found Family 💔 Wartime Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

— Janet Skeslien Charles • 2024

In 1918 France, a librarian builds a children's library; decades later, her story is unearthed.

3.98

19 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Books About Books 📖 Librarian Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🪖 Women In War

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

In 1918 France, a librarian builds a children's library; decades later, her story is unearthed.

— Janet Skeslien Charles 2024 318 стр.

3.98

19 000+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Books About Books 📖 Librarian Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🪖 Women In War

Piglet

— Lottie Hazell • 2024

Thirteen days before the wedding, her fiancé confesses a betrayal. She keeps cooking.

3.38

46 000+

🍽️ Food And Identity 💷 Class Anxiety 🖤 Darkly Comic 🍰 Emotional Eating 👯 Complicated Friendship

Piglet

Thirteen days before the wedding, her fiancé confesses a betrayal. She keeps cooking.

— Lottie Hazell 2024 320 стр.

3.38

46 000+ оценок

🍽️ Food And Identity 💷 Class Anxiety 🖤 Darkly Comic 🍰 Emotional Eating 👯 Complicated Friendship

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

— Joshua Hammer • 2016

377,000 ancient manuscripts, one occupied city, and the smuggling ring of librarians who saved them.

3.50

12 000+

🏴‍☠️ Art And Book Heists 🕌 Islamic History 📦 Smuggling Operations 💥 Cultural Destruction ✊ Community Resistance

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

377,000 ancient manuscripts, one occupied city, and the smuggling ring of librarians who saved them.

— Joshua Hammer 2016 264 стр.

3.50

12 000+ оценок

🏴‍☠️ Art And Book Heists 🕌 Islamic History 📦 Smuggling Operations 💥 Cultural Destruction ✊ Community Resistance

The Midnight Hour

— Eve Chase • 2024

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

4.00

11 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

The Midnight Hour

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

— Eve Chase 2024 320 стр.

4.00

11 000+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

Мы начинаем с конца

— Крис Уитакер • 2020

A girl outlaw must protect her brother when their mother is killed and old secrets resurface.

4.18

100 000+

🔍 Small Town Mystery 🧬 Generational Trauma 👧 Child Narrator 👫 Protective Sibling 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

Мы начинаем с конца

A girl outlaw must protect her brother when their mother is killed and old secrets resurface.

— Крис Уитакер 2020 384 стр.

4.18

100 000+ оценок

🔍 Small Town Mystery 🧬 Generational Trauma 👧 Child Narrator 👫 Protective Sibling 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

Overdue

— Stephanie Perkins • 2025

A librarian on a break from her boyfriend sets her sights on her gruff older coworker.

3.67

9 000+

🐌 Slow Burn Romance 📚 Bookish Romance 👥 Friends To Lovers ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌱 Starting Over

Overdue

A librarian on a break from her boyfriend sets her sights on her gruff older coworker.

— Stephanie Perkins 2025 407 стр.

3.67

9 000+ оценок

🐌 Slow Burn Romance 📚 Bookish Romance 👥 Friends To Lovers ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌱 Starting Over

The Book of Joy

— Dalai Lama XIV • 2016

Their joy survived exile and apartheid. The shifts that make joy a choice, not a reaction.

4.38

65 000+

🧠 Buddhist Psychology 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💗 Compassion Cultivation 🕊️ Forgiveness Practice 🙏 Gratitude Practice

The Book of Joy

Their joy survived exile and apartheid. The shifts that make joy a choice, not a reaction.

— Dalai Lama XIV 2016

4.38

65 000+ оценок

🧠 Buddhist Psychology 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💗 Compassion Cultivation 🕊️ Forgiveness Practice 🙏 Gratitude Practice

The Hidden Beach

— Karen Swan • 2020

A nanny falls for a stranger. He's her employer's husband, awake from a seven-year coma.

4.00

6 000+

🔺 Love Triangle 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets 👶 Nanny Heroine 🏝️ Remote Island Setting

The Hidden Beach

A nanny falls for a stranger. He's her employer's husband, awake from a seven-year coma.

— Karen Swan 2020 328 стр.

4.00

6 000+ оценок

🔺 Love Triangle 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🔐 Family Secrets 👶 Nanny Heroine 🏝️ Remote Island Setting

The Latehomecomer

— Kao Kalia Yang • 2008

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

4.18

8 000+

🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

The Latehomecomer

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

— Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 стр.

4.18

8 000+ оценок

🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

The Last Days of Night

— Graham Moore • 2016

An untested lawyer battles Edison in the patent war to decide who lights the modern world.

4.16

44 000+

🏙️ Gilded Age ⚖️ Legal Drama ⚡ Genius Rivalry 🧠 Tragic Genius 🖤 Dark Ambition

The Last Days of Night

An untested lawyer battles Edison in the patent war to decide who lights the modern world.

— Graham Moore 2016 371 стр.

4.16

44 000+ оценок

🏙️ Gilded Age ⚖️ Legal Drama ⚡ Genius Rivalry 🧠 Tragic Genius 🖤 Dark Ambition

The Buccaneers

— Edith Wharton • 1938

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

3.85

8 000+

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Gilded Cage

The Buccaneers

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

— Edith Wharton 1938 406 стр.

3.85

8 000+ оценок

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Gilded Cage

The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth

— Barbara O'Neal • 2025

Two women fleeing the past follow a dead mother's letters around the world, seeking second chances.

4.35

16 000+

🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🏠 Found Family ✉️ Letters From The Dead 💕 Second Chance At Love 🍽️ Culinary Travel

The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth

Two women fleeing the past follow a dead mother's letters around the world, seeking second chances.

— Barbara O'Neal 2025 395 стр.

4.35

16 000+ оценок

🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🏠 Found Family ✉️ Letters From The Dead 💕 Second Chance At Love 🍽️ Culinary Travel

Like Family

— Erin O. White • 2025

Three queer families share everything: carpools, holidays, and one secret that could break them.

3.49

3 000+

🫂 Chosen Family 🌈 Queer Parenthood 🤫 Secret Parentage 🔄 Midlife Transformation 💔 Sapphic Affair

Like Family

Three queer families share everything: carpools, holidays, and one secret that could break them.

— Erin O. White 2025 320 стр.

3.49

3 000+ оценок

🫂 Chosen Family 🌈 Queer Parenthood 🤫 Secret Parentage 🔄 Midlife Transformation 💔 Sapphic Affair

Moonglow

— Michael Chabon • 2016

A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.

3.80

34 000+

✍️ Fictionalized Memoir 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🕯️ Deathbed Confessions 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💔 Haunted By War

Moonglow

A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.

— Michael Chabon 2016 430 стр.

3.80

34 000+ оценок

✍️ Fictionalized Memoir 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🕯️ Deathbed Confessions 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💔 Haunted By War

Dream State

— Eric Puchner • 2025

At her fiance's Montana lake house, Cece plans a wedding while falling for the best man.

3.57

29 000+

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Love Triangle 😬 Best Friend's Wife 🧠 Dementia Caregiver 🏔️ Montana Wilderness

Dream State

At her fiance's Montana lake house, Cece plans a wedding while falling for the best man.

— Eric Puchner 2025 448 стр.

3.57

29 000+ оценок

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Love Triangle 😬 Best Friend's Wife 🧠 Dementia Caregiver 🏔️ Montana Wilderness

It's Good to Be Queen

— Liz Curtis Higgs • 2015

What a queen's 1,500-mile quest for wisdom teaches women about boldness, honesty, and grace.

4.17

500+

👑 Biblical Womanhood 📖 Women In Scripture 🏺 Christian Character Study 🦁 Boldness In Faith 💡 Christian Wisdom

It's Good to Be Queen

What a queen's 1,500-mile quest for wisdom teaches women about boldness, honesty, and grace.

— Liz Curtis Higgs 2015 224 стр.

4.17

500+ оценок

👑 Biblical Womanhood 📖 Women In Scripture 🏺 Christian Character Study 🦁 Boldness In Faith 💡 Christian Wisdom

The Child in Time

— Ian McEwan • 1987

A children's author searches for his vanished daughter while time and memory warp around him.

3.58

15 000+

🧒 Missing Child 💔 Marital Grief ⏳ Nonlinear Time 🧠 Psychological Realism 🏛️ Political Satire

The Child in Time

A children's author searches for his vanished daughter while time and memory warp around him.

— Ian McEwan 1987 263 стр.

3.58

15 000+ оценок

🧒 Missing Child 💔 Marital Grief ⏳ Nonlinear Time 🧠 Psychological Realism 🏛️ Political Satire

The House of Mirth

— Edith Wharton • 1905

Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.

3.98

100 000+

🎭 Tragedy Of Manners 💍 Marriage Market 📉 Social Downfall 💔 Unspoken Love 🏛️ Gilded Age

The House of Mirth

Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.

— Edith Wharton 1905 351 стр.

3.98

100 000+ оценок

🎭 Tragedy Of Manners 💍 Marriage Market 📉 Social Downfall 💔 Unspoken Love 🏛️ Gilded Age

The Lioness of Morocco

— Julia Drosten • 2017

Trading London for Morocco, an Englishwoman finds power, peril, and forbidden love in 1830s Morocco.

4.12

17 000+

💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 👑 Harem Politics 💪 Independent Heroine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga

The Lioness of Morocco

Trading London for Morocco, an Englishwoman finds power, peril, and forbidden love in 1830s Morocco.

— Julia Drosten 2017 450 стр.

4.12

17 000+ оценок

💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 👑 Harem Politics 💪 Independent Heroine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga

Provenance

— Laney Salisbury • 2009

A painter forged the art. A con man forged the archives. The art world bought both.

3.93

6 000+

🎨 Art Forgery 💰 Art Market 🃏 Confidence Games 📋 Fakes And Frauds 🕵️ True Crime Narrative

Provenance

A painter forged the art. A con man forged the archives. The art world bought both.

— Laney Salisbury 2009 327 стр.

3.93

6 000+ оценок

🎨 Art Forgery 💰 Art Market 🃏 Confidence Games 📋 Fakes And Frauds 🕵️ True Crime Narrative

The Goddess of Warsaw

— Lisa Barr • 2024

A Hollywood icon's darkest secret: she survived the Warsaw Ghetto by becoming its deadliest avenger.

4.37

32 000+

🕯️ Holocaust Resistance ⏳ Dual Timeline ⚔️ Resistance Fighter 💔 Forbidden Love 🔪 Cathartic Revenge

The Goddess of Warsaw

A Hollywood icon's darkest secret: she survived the Warsaw Ghetto by becoming its deadliest avenger.

— Lisa Barr 2024 351 стр.

4.37

32 000+ оценок

🕯️ Holocaust Resistance ⏳ Dual Timeline ⚔️ Resistance Fighter 💔 Forbidden Love 🔪 Cathartic Revenge

Book Lust

— Nancy Pearl • 2003

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

3.77

3 000+

🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Book Lust

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

— Nancy Pearl 2003 287 стр.

3.77

3 000+ оценок

🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

A Girl Called Samson

— Amy Harmon • 2023

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

4.46

58 000+

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

A Girl Called Samson

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

— Amy Harmon 2023 405 стр.

4.46

58 000+ оценок

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

Loved and Missed

— Susie Boyt • 2023

Her daughter lost to addiction, a teacher raises her granddaughter while facing her own mortality.

4.28

6 000+

🫂 Found Family 💔 Mother-Daughter Rift 🏚️ Family Addiction 🕳️ Intergenerational Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

Loved and Missed

Her daughter lost to addiction, a teacher raises her granddaughter while facing her own mortality.

— Susie Boyt 2023

4.28

6 000+ оценок

🫂 Found Family 💔 Mother-Daughter Rift 🏚️ Family Addiction 🕳️ Intergenerational Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

Our Beautiful Boys

— Sameer Pandya • 2025

One night of violence at a cavehouse party shatters the facades of three suburban families.

3.80

1 000+

🏈 High School Football 🌏 Immigrant Families 🖤 Race And Privilege 😔 Guilt And Redemption 🏡 Suburban Secrets

Our Beautiful Boys

One night of violence at a cavehouse party shatters the facades of three suburban families.

— Sameer Pandya 2025 400 стр.

3.80

1 000+ оценок

🏈 High School Football 🌏 Immigrant Families 🖤 Race And Privilege 😔 Guilt And Redemption 🏡 Suburban Secrets

The Stolen Queen

— Fiona Davis • 2025

A shipwrecked Egyptian collar arrives at the Met, sparking a curator's hope her daughter survived.

3.89

64 000+

🔀 Dual Timeline 🏺 Egyptian Archaeology 📿 Lost Artifact 👧 Lost Daughter 🫂 Found Family

The Stolen Queen

A shipwrecked Egyptian collar arrives at the Met, sparking a curator's hope her daughter survived.

— Fiona Davis 2025 352 стр.

3.89

64 000+ оценок

🔀 Dual Timeline 🏺 Egyptian Archaeology 📿 Lost Artifact 👧 Lost Daughter 🫂 Found Family

The Family Chao

— Lan Samantha Chang • 2022

After a Chinese restaurant owner dies, his chef son faces a murder trial in small-town Wisconsin.

3.34

10 000+

🔍 Literary Mystery 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🏚️ Small Town Scandal 🍜 Food And Family 🧧 Chinese American Family

The Family Chao

After a Chinese restaurant owner dies, his chef son faces a murder trial in small-town Wisconsin.

— Lan Samantha Chang 2022 303 стр.

3.34

10 000+ оценок

🔍 Literary Mystery 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🏚️ Small Town Scandal 🍜 Food And Family 🧧 Chinese American Family

Jellyfish Have No Ears

— Adèle Rosenfeld • 2022

Hearing fading, a woman navigates a surreal inner world and the choice of a cochlear implant.

3.13

1 000+

🦻 Deaf Experience 👤 Imaginary Companions 🌀 Surreal Encounters 🖤 Melancholy 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

Jellyfish Have No Ears

Hearing fading, a woman navigates a surreal inner world and the choice of a cochlear implant.

— Adèle Rosenfeld 2022 192 стр.

3.13

1 000+ оценок

🦻 Deaf Experience 👤 Imaginary Companions 🌀 Surreal Encounters 🖤 Melancholy 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

Rabbit Moon

— Jennifer Haigh • 2025

A hit-and-run in Shanghai forces divorced parents to confront the daughter they never knew.

3.74

6 000+

🎭 Literary Family Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Transracial Adoption 🏙️ Contemporary Shanghai 🔍 Hidden Identity 👯 Sisterly Bond

Rabbit Moon

A hit-and-run in Shanghai forces divorced parents to confront the daughter they never knew.

— Jennifer Haigh 2025 288 стр.

3.74

6 000+ оценок

🎭 Literary Family Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Transracial Adoption 🏙️ Contemporary Shanghai 🔍 Hidden Identity 👯 Sisterly Bond

Salvar el fuego

— Guillermo Arriaga • 2020

A choreographer, a prisoner, and a passion that breaks every law.

4.30

13 000+

🔥 Forbidden Passion 🏃 Lovers On The Run 🌉 Crossing Class Lines 📖 Literary Love Story 🕊️ Redemption Arc

Salvar el fuego

A choreographer, a prisoner, and a passion that breaks every law.

— Guillermo Arriaga 2020 664 стр.

4.30

13 000+ оценок

🔥 Forbidden Passion 🏃 Lovers On The Run 🌉 Crossing Class Lines 📖 Literary Love Story 🕊️ Redemption Arc

The Mark of a Giant

— Ted Stewart • 2013

Ambition usually grabs. In seven lives that reshaped the world, it gave.

3.96

288

🏛️ History Makers 🏔️ Perseverance Stories 📖 Inspirational Biography 🚧 Breaking Barriers 🔬 Scientific Breakthroughs

The Mark of a Giant

Ambition usually grabs. In seven lives that reshaped the world, it gave.

— Ted Stewart 2013 320 стр.

3.96

288 оценок

🏛️ History Makers 🏔️ Perseverance Stories 📖 Inspirational Biography 🚧 Breaking Barriers 🔬 Scientific Breakthroughs

Homeschooled

— Stefan Merrill Block • 2026

His mother's homeschooling promised genius and freedom. It delivered a decade alone in a bedroom.

3.63

21 000+

🏠 Homeschooling Memoir 🔗 Parental Enmeshment 🏝️ Childhood Isolation 📚 Unschooling ✋ Controlling Parents

Homeschooled

His mother's homeschooling promised genius and freedom. It delivered a decade alone in a bedroom.

— Stefan Merrill Block 2026 288 стр.

3.63

21 000+ оценок

🏠 Homeschooling Memoir 🔗 Parental Enmeshment 🏝️ Childhood Isolation 📚 Unschooling ✋ Controlling Parents

The Electric Woman

— Tessa Fontaine • 2018

Eating fire is easier than watching your mother die, so she joined the carnival.

3.90

1 000+

🎪 Traveling Carnivals 🧗‍♀️ Women Adventurers 💔 Caregiving Guilt 👁️ Body As Spectacle 🎭 Performing Identity

The Electric Woman

Eating fire is easier than watching your mother die, so she joined the carnival.

— Tessa Fontaine 2018 384 стр.

3.90

1 000+ оценок

🎪 Traveling Carnivals 🧗‍♀️ Women Adventurers 💔 Caregiving Guilt 👁️ Body As Spectacle 🎭 Performing Identity

Fundamentally

— Nussaibah Younis • 2025

A secular academic deradicalizes ISIS brides in Baghdad, until one woman mirrors her own lost faith.

3.71

20 000+

😈 Darkly Comic 🕌 Ex-Muslim Narrative 🌍 Humanitarian Aid 🇮🇶 Post-War Iraq 💔 Trauma Bonding

Fundamentally

A secular academic deradicalizes ISIS brides in Baghdad, until one woman mirrors her own lost faith.

— Nussaibah Younis 2025 352 стр.

3.71

20 000+ оценок

😈 Darkly Comic 🕌 Ex-Muslim Narrative 🌍 Humanitarian Aid 🇮🇶 Post-War Iraq 💔 Trauma Bonding

The Summer Before the War

— Helen Simonson • 2016

A Latin teacher finds purpose and impossible love in a Sussex town the summer the Great War begins.

3.79

44 000+

🏘️ Edwardian Village 🏠 Home Front Drama 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Duty Versus Heart 🧳 Wartime Refugees

The Summer Before the War

A Latin teacher finds purpose and impossible love in a Sussex town the summer the Great War begins.

— Helen Simonson 2016 481 стр.

3.79

44 000+ оценок

🏘️ Edwardian Village 🏠 Home Front Drama 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Duty Versus Heart 🧳 Wartime Refugees

Засуха

— Джейн Харпер • 2016

An agent returns to a parched town for a funeral, questioning a staged family murder.

4.06

200 000+

🏜️ Australian Noir 🔍 Small Town Secrets 🕰️ Cold Case ⏳ Dual Timeline 🕵️‍♂️ Haunted Detective

Засуха

An agent returns to a parched town for a funeral, questioning a staged family murder.

— Джейн Харпер 2016 336 стр.

4.06

200 000+ оценок

🏜️ Australian Noir 🔍 Small Town Secrets 🕰️ Cold Case ⏳ Dual Timeline 🕵️‍♂️ Haunted Detective

Should We Stay or Should We Go

— Lionel Shriver • 2021

A couple plans their perfect exit at eighty, then watches twelve alternate futures unfold.

3.65

6 000+

🪞 Alternate Lives ⏳ Suicide Pact 💑 Long-Married Couple 👴 Elderly Protagonists 😏 Dark Humor

Should We Stay or Should We Go

A couple plans their perfect exit at eighty, then watches twelve alternate futures unfold.

— Lionel Shriver 2021 288 стр.

3.65

6 000+ оценок

🪞 Alternate Lives ⏳ Suicide Pact 💑 Long-Married Couple 👴 Elderly Protagonists 😏 Dark Humor

Назад 10 11 12 13 14 Далее

Compare Features	Free	Pro
📖 Read Summaries Read unlimited summaries. Free users get 3 per month
🎧 Listen to Summaries Listen to unlimited summaries in 40 languages	—
❤️ Unlimited Bookmarks Free users are limited to 4	—
📜 Unlimited History Free users are limited to 4	—
📥 Unlimited Downloads Free users are limited to 1	—

People love SoBrief

Join our global community of 600,000+ readers

★★★★★

This site is a total game-changer. I've been flying through book summaries like never before. Highly, highly recommend.

— Dave G

Worth my money and time, and really well made. I've never seen this quality of summaries on other websites. Very helpful!

— Em

Highly recommended!! Fantastic service. Perfect for those that want a little more than a teaser but not all the intricate details of a full audio book.

— Greg M