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Sleeping Beauty Summary
Sleeping Beauty
by Jacob Grimm 1697 32 pages
3.80
2.4K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Heroes Summary
Heroes
Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
by Stephen Fry 2018 415 pages
4.31
54.4K ratings
Mythology
History
Greek Mythology
Cancer Ward Summary
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages
4.26
17.4K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
1910-1913
by Franz Kafka 1948 345 pages
4.21
241 ratings
Classics
Memoir
Diary
The Lord of the Rings Summary
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 1216 pages
4.54
710.7K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Adventure
Just So Summary
Just So
Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe
by Alan W. Watts 2020 216 pages
4.24
344 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies Summary
Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies
by René Descartes 1641 265 pages
3.74
2.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
Essays and Aphorisms Summary
Essays and Aphorisms
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages
4.17
8.7K ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
Preface to Shakespeare Summary
Preface to Shakespeare
by Samuel Johnson 1778 68 pages
3.61
356 ratings
Classics
Literary Criticism
Essays
And Then There Were None Summary
And Then There Were None
A Mystery Play in Three Acts
by Agatha Christie 1944 95 pages
4.25
2.1K ratings
Plays
Mystery
Agatha Christie
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Summary
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain 1889 480 pages
3.77
106.3K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
On Writing Summary
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages
4.03
4.6K ratings
Writing
Classics
Literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1884 327 pages
3.83
1.3M ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Where the Sidewalk Ends Summary
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein 1974 176 pages
4.34
1.5M ratings
Poetry
Childrens
Classics
Harry Potter Series Box Set Summary
Harry Potter Series Box Set
by J.K. Rowling 2007 4100 pages
4.73
298.1K ratings
Fantasy
Young Adult
Magic
The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary
The Yellow Wall-Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 62 pages
4.08
330.2K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Horror
Why We Can't Wait Summary
Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 223 pages
4.54
8.9K ratings
History
Politics
Race
Sometimes a Great Notion Summary
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages
4.26
23.4K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Dice Man Summary
The Dice Man
by Luke Rhinehart 1971 541 pages
3.55
21.8K ratings
Psychology
Thriller
Classics
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Summary
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams 1996 815 pages
4.38
333.2K ratings
Science Fiction
Humor
Fantasy
The Anti-Christ Summary
The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1895 126 pages
3.89
31.1K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
On Drinking Summary
On Drinking
by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages
3.88
1.6K ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Essays
Song of Solomon Summary
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages
4.15
122.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Summary
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith 1943 496 pages
4.30
492.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Classics
All Our Yesterdays Summary
All Our Yesterdays
by Natalia Ginzburg 1952 300 pages
3.99
4.5K ratings
Italy
Historical Fiction
Italian Literature
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle 2015 536 pages
4.35
3.6K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Crime
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
Potiki Summary
Potiki
by Patricia Grace 1986 192 pages
3.88
2.3K ratings
Indigenous
Classics
Magical Realism
Bulfinch's Mythology Summary
Bulfinch's Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages
4.14
12.1K ratings
Mythology
Classics
Fantasy
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages
3.50
133.3K ratings
Romance
Classics
Literature
The Mists of Avalon Summary
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley 1982 884 pages
4.13
211.2K ratings
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Arthurian
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages
4.00
35.8K ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
The Three Sisters Summary
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov 1900 81 pages
3.71
23.8K ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
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
Give War and Peace a Chance Summary
Give War and Peace a Chance
Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages
3.88
347 ratings
Books About Books
Literary Criticism
Literature
Ramona Forever Summary
Ramona Forever
by Beverly Cleary 1984 150 pages
4.08
34.9K ratings
Childrens
Middle Grade
Realistic Fiction
True Grit Summary
True Grit
by Charles Portis 1968 224 pages
4.17
67.0K ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
50 Economics Classics Summary
50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 pages
4.20
516 ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
112.7K ratings
Classics
Essays
Race
The Secret of the Old Clock Summary
The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene 1930 210 pages
3.98
81.8K ratings
Mystery
Young Adult
Classics
Farmer Giles of Ham Summary
Farmer Giles of Ham
by J.R.R. Tolkien 1949 127 pages
3.89
11.8K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Short Stories
Early Socratic Dialogues Summary
Early Socratic Dialogues
by Plato 399 pages
4.06
398 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Greece
The Baron in the Trees Summary
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino 1957 217 pages
4.02
50.9K ratings
Classics
Italian Literature
Italy
Midnight’s Children Summary
Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie 1981 647 pages
3.98
131.2K ratings
Magical Realism
Classics
India
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous Summary
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
by George Berkeley 1713 105 pages
3.73
2.4K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
2.9K ratings
Classics
Novels
American
The Basketball Diaries Summary
The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll 1978 224 pages
3.99
31.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Prince Caspian Summary
Prince Caspian
by C.S. Lewis 1951 240 pages
3.98
473.5K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Young Adult
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages
4.12
16.3K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russia
The Mystery of the Yellow Room Summary
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux 1907 192 pages
3.65
13.3K ratings
Mystery
Classics
Crime
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