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Literature Book Summaries

The Foundation Trilogy Summary
The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov 1953 679 pages
4.42
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Science Fiction Fantasy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Summary
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami 1994 607 pages
4.14
200k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Japanese Literature
Snow Falling on Cedars Summary
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson 1994 460 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Historical
The Sound and the Fury Summary
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner 1929 366 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Literature
Classics
Novels
The Sound of Waves Summary
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima 1954 183 pages
3.77
21k+ ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
Aesop’s Fables Summary
Aesop’s Fables
by Aesop 352 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Childrens
Go Tell It on the Mountain Summary
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin 1953 256 pages
4.05
74k+ ratings
Classics
African American
Race
Survivor Summary
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk 1999 289 pages
3.93
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Thriller
Novels
Robinson Crusoe Summary
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe 1719 320 pages
3.68
300k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
Life of Pi Summary
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel 2001 460 pages
3.94
1.6M+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Adventure
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Summary
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino 1979 260 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Italian Literature
Magical Realism
مثنوی معنوی Summary
مثنوی معنوی
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1273 1145 pages
4.45
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
The Old Man and the Sea Summary
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway 1952 96 pages
3.81
1.2M+ ratings
Literature
Novels
School
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain 1876 244 pages
3.92
900k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Things Fall Apart Summary
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe 1958 215 pages
3.74
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Africa
Amerika Summary
Amerika
by Franz Kafka 1927 336 pages
3.74
32k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
Literature
The Master and Margarita Summary
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 372 pages
4.29
300k+ ratings
Russia
Fantasy
Russian Literature
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Summary
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll 1871 239 pages
4.06
500k+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Childrens
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.83
73k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Madame Bovary Summary
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages
3.70
300k+ ratings
Classics
France
Literature
The World According to Garp Summary
The World According to Garp
by John Irving 1978 610 pages
4.10
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Contemporary
The Schopenhauer Cure Summary
The Schopenhauer Cure
by Irvin D. Yalom 2005 358 pages
4.28
28k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Novels
The Taming of the Shrew Summary
The Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare & Illustrated
by William Shakespeare
3.75
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Persuasion Summary
Persuasion
by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages
4.15
700k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Historical
The Journey to the West, Volume 1 Summary
The Journey to the West, Volume 1
by Wu Cheng'en 1592 544 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
China
Sophie’s World Summary
Sophie’s World
by Jostein Gaarder 1991 403 pages
3.97
200k+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Novels
Great Expectations Summary
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages
3.80
800k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
David Copperfield Summary
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages
4.04
200k+ ratings
Literature
Historical Fiction
19th Century
Inferno Summary
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
The Satanic Verses Summary
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie 1988 561 pages
3.71
68k+ ratings
Classics
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Gone with the Wind Summary
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell 1936 1037 pages
4.31
1.2M+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Romance
The Invisible Man Summary
The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 1897 192 pages
3.63
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Horror
Les Misérables Summary
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo 1862 1463 pages
4.21
800k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
France
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة Summary
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة
by José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 245 pages
4.38
75k+ ratings
Classics
Childrens
Novels
Zeno's Conscience Summary
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages
3.77
29k+ ratings
Italian Literature
Italy
Literature
Sula Summary
Sula
by Toni Morrison 1973 174 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
African American
The Prophet Summary
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran 1923 127 pages
4.23
300k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
We Summary
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Dystopia
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
A Room with a View Summary
A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster 1908 119 pages
3.90
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare 1595 298 pages
3.94
500k+ ratings
Plays
Fantasy
School
The Tempest Summary
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare 1611 218 pages
3.78
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Fantasy
King Lear Summary
King Lear
by William Shakespeare 1605 339 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.80
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages
3.50
100k+ ratings
Romance
Classics
Literature
White Teeth Summary
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith 2000 448 pages
3.79
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Novels
Waiting for Godot Summary
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett 1952 109 pages
3.84
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
White Fang Summary
White Fang
by Jack London 1906 252 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Candide Summary
Candide
by Voltaire 1759 129 pages
3.76
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Classics
The Setting Sun Summary
The Setting Sun
by Osamu Dazai 1947 175 pages
3.98
36k+ ratings
Classics
Japanese Literature
Japan
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