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Literature Book Summaries

The Gambler Summary
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages
3.91
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Summary
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey 1962 325 pages
4.20
700k+ ratings
Classics
Psychology
Literature
The Sun Also Rises Summary
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 pages
3.79
400k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Song of Solomon Summary
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
The Red Badge of Courage Summary
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane 1895 149 pages
3.29
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
Invisible Man Summary
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 1952 581 pages
3.92
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Iliad Summary
The Iliad
by Homer 683 pages
3.92
400k+ ratings
Poetry
Mythology
Classics
The Blind Owl Summary
The Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat 1937 148 pages
3.97
31k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Novels
The Remains of the Day Summary
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 258 pages
4.14
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Literary Fiction
Shahnameh Summary
Shahnameh
The Persian Book of Kings
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi 1010 886 pages
4.51
5k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
History
A Fraction of the Whole Summary
A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz 2008 530 pages
4.14
23k+ ratings
Australia
Novels
Contemporary
Chess Story Summary
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig 1942 104 pages
4.27
100k+ ratings
German Literature
Short Stories
Literature
The Spinoza Problem Summary
The Spinoza Problem
by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages
4.26
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Historical Fiction
The Divine Comedy Summary
The Divine Comedy
Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri 1320 798 pages
4.08
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Literature
Philosophy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 1916 329 pages
3.64
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Irish Literature
The Clown Summary
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages
3.93
30k+ ratings
German Literature
Classics
Novels
1985 Summary
1985
by Anthony Burgess 1978 240 pages
3.48
1k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Classics
سمفونی مردگان Summary
سمفونی مردگان
by Abbas Maroufi 1989 352 pages
4.24
19k+ ratings
Novels
Iran
Literature
The Masnavi Summary
The Masnavi
Book One
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1270 304 pages
4.42
1k+ ratings
Poetry
Islam
Classics
Four Great Tragedies Summary
Four Great Tragedies
Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages
4.42
17k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Twelfth Night Summary
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare 1602 272 pages
3.96
100k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
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
The Call of the Wild Summary
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London 1903 172 pages
3.91
400k+ ratings
Adventure
Young Adult
Animals
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
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
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
Frankenstein Summary
Frankenstein
The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 260 pages
3.88
1.7M+ ratings
Horror
Science Fiction
Gothic
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.98
24k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Novels
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
The Bell Jar Summary
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath 1963 294 pages
4.06
1M+ ratings
Feminism
Mental Health
Psychology
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages
4.09
36k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Japanese Literature
Beloved Summary
Beloved
by Toni Morrison 1987 325 pages
3.97
400k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
200k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
The Corrections Summary
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen 2001 653 pages
3.84
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Literary Fiction
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
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
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 438 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Oil! Summary
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair 1926 528 pages
3.74
6k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Native Son Summary
Native Son
by Richard Wright 1940 504 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Race
The Museum of Innocence Summary
The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk 2008 536 pages
3.78
35k+ ratings
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Romance
Fight Club Summary
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk 1996 218 pages
4.18
600k+ ratings
Classics
Thriller
Novels
The Black Book Summary
The Black Book
by Orhan Pamuk 1990 466 pages
3.92
12k+ ratings
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Mystery
Nausea Summary
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1938 178 pages
3.94
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Literature
The Maniac Summary
The Maniac
by Benjamín Labatut 2023 368 pages
4.34
18k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Philosophy
Literary Fiction
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