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Twelfth Night Summary
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare 1602 272 pages
3.96
100k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
Totem and Taboo Summary
Totem and Taboo
by Sigmund Freud 1913 224 pages
3.85
10k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Metaphysics Summary
Metaphysics
by Aristotle 365 pages
4.07
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Metaphysics
All the Pretty Horses Summary
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
A Christmas Carol Summary
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens 1843 184 pages
4.09
800k+ ratings
Christmas
Classics
Fantasy
Mrs. Dalloway Summary
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages
3.79
300k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Gray's Anatomy Summary
Gray's Anatomy
by Henry Gray 1858 1257 pages
4.31
3k+ ratings
Reference
Science
Medicine
The Jungle Book Summary
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages
3.90
100k+ ratings
Classics
Childrens
Fantasy
The Kite Runner Summary
The Kite Runner
Graphic Novel
by Khaled Hosseini 2011 132 pages
4.45
22k+ ratings
Graphic Novels
Historical Fiction
Comics
Rebecca Summary
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier 1938 449 pages
4.25
600k+ ratings
Mystery
Gothic
Romance
The Persian Expedition Summary
The Persian Expedition
by Xenophon 375 pages
4.11
9k+ ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Sex and Rage Summary
Sex and Rage
by Eve Babitz 1979 256 pages
3.57
15k+ ratings
Contemporary
Classics
Feminism
The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Graphic Novel
by Ian Edginton 2008 122 pages
4.16
58k+ ratings
Classics
Graphic Novels
Comics
Anne of Green Gables Summary
Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery 1908 320 pages
4.32
1M+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Like Water for Chocolate Summary
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel 1989 222 pages
3.95
300k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Romance
Historical Fiction
Charlotte’s Web Summary
Charlotte’s Web
by E.B. White 1952 184 pages
4.20
1.9M+ ratings
Childrens
Classics
Fantasy
A Farewell to Arms Summary
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway 1929 293 pages
3.82
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
War
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Summary
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo 1831 510 pages
4.02
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
France
Blindness Summary
Blindness
by José Saramago 1995 326 pages
4.18
300k+ ratings
Dystopia
Classics
Science Fiction
I Who Have Never Known Men Summary
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman 1995 208 pages
4.21
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Feminism
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.98
24k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Novels
God Emperor of Dune Summary
God Emperor of Dune
by Frank Herbert 1981 587 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Science Fiction Fantasy
Agnes Grey Summary
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages
3.71
76k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
Suite Française Summary
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky 2004 431 pages
3.86
76k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
France
World War II
Journey to the End of the Night Summary
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 453 pages
4.19
45k+ ratings
France
Literature
French Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969 275 pages
4.10
1.4M+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Historical Fiction
Oblomov Summary
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages
4.13
40k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
I, Robot Summary
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov 1950 224 pages
4.21
300k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Short Stories
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages
4.09
36k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Japanese Literature
A Thousand Splendid Suns Summary
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini 2007 372 pages
4.44
1.6M+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Classics
Beloved Summary
Beloved
by Toni Morrison 1987 325 pages
3.97
400k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Summary
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith 1759 368 pages
4.07
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Classics
The Sign of Four Summary
The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 129 pages
3.89
100k+ ratings
Mystery
Crime
Classics
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Summary
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach 1970 112 pages
3.86
200k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Fantasy
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
200k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
Mother Courage and Her Children Summary
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht 1941 93 pages
3.62
21k+ ratings
Theatre
School
20th Century
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Parable of the Sower Summary
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler 1993 345 pages
4.21
200k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Fantasy
Ecce Homo Summary
Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1908 144 pages
3.81
18k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Biography
The Phantom of the Opera Summary
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux 1910 360 pages
3.96
200k+ ratings
Horror
Romance
Classics
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages
3.96
52k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Literature
The Importance of Living Summary
The Importance of Living
by Lin Yutang 1937 462 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
China
Self Help
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Summary
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith 1943 496 pages
4.30
400k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Young Adult
Giovanni’s Room Summary
Giovanni’s Room
by James Baldwin 1956 159 pages
4.34
100k+ ratings
Classics
LGBT
Queer
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 438 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Philosophy of History Summary
The Philosophy of History
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1831 480 pages
3.82
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Classics
Oil! Summary
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair 1926 528 pages
3.74
6k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison 1967 134 pages
3.90
43k+ ratings
Horror
Science Fiction
Short Stories
Perfume Summary
Perfume
The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind 1985 263 pages
4.04
500k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Horror
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